The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Carefully Collated and Compared with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and CommentatorsEditor, and sold, 1778 |
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... antient times confpir'd to difallow 135 What then was new , what had been antient now ? Or what remain'd , fo worthy to be read By learned critics , of the mighty dead ? In days of eafe , when now the weary sword Was fheath'd , and ...
... antient times confpir'd to difallow 135 What then was new , what had been antient now ? Or what remain'd , fo worthy to be read By learned critics , of the mighty dead ? In days of eafe , when now the weary sword Was fheath'd , and ...
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... antient woods , that fhaded all the ground ? We fee no new - built palaces aspire , No kitchens emulate the veftal fire . Where are those troops of poor , that throng'd of yore The good old landlord's hofpitable door ? I 10 Well Each ...
... antient woods , that fhaded all the ground ? We fee no new - built palaces aspire , No kitchens emulate the veftal fire . Where are those troops of poor , that throng'd of yore The good old landlord's hofpitable door ? I 10 Well Each ...
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... antient of critics . Mr. JOHN DENNIS . His precepts are falfe or trivial , or both ; his thoughts are crude and abortive , his expreffions ab- " furd , his numbers harfh and unmufical , his rhymes " trivial and common ; -inftead of ...
... antient of critics . Mr. JOHN DENNIS . His precepts are falfe or trivial , or both ; his thoughts are crude and abortive , his expreffions ab- " furd , his numbers harfh and unmufical , his rhymes " trivial and common ; -inftead of ...
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... antient court thee to his fhrine , " Tho ' ev'ry laurel through the dome be thine , " Go to the good and just , an awful train ! " Thy foul's delight , Recorded in like manner for his virtuous difpofition , and gentle bearing , by the ...
... antient court thee to his fhrine , " Tho ' ev'ry laurel through the dome be thine , " Go to the good and just , an awful train ! " Thy foul's delight , Recorded in like manner for his virtuous difpofition , and gentle bearing , by the ...
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... antient of things , Chaos , Night , and Dulness ; fo is it of the moft grave and antient kind . Homer , ( faith Ariftotle ) was the firft who gave the form , and ( faith Horace ) who adapted the measure , to heroic poefy . But even ...
... antient of things , Chaos , Night , and Dulness ; fo is it of the moft grave and antient kind . Homer , ( faith Ariftotle ) was the firft who gave the form , and ( faith Horace ) who adapted the measure , to heroic poefy . But even ...
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Página 127 - And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so well enlarged upon in the preface to his works: That wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn.
Página 2 - Pope. Friend to my life, (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love?
Página 104 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Página 3 - The truth once told (and wherefore should we lie?) The Queen of Midas slept, and so may I. You think this cruel ? take it for a rule, No creature smarts so little as a fool. Let peals of laughter, Codrus ! round thee break, 85 Thou unconcern'd canst hear the mighty crack: Pit, box, and gall'ry in convulsions hurl'd, Thou stand'st unshook amidst a bursting world. Who shames a Scribbler? break one cobweb thro...
Página 9 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or, at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad...
Página 281 - We only furnish what he cannot use, Or wed to what he must divorce, a muse: Full in the midst of Euclid dip at once, And petrify a genius to a dunce: Or set on metaphysic ground to prance, Show all his paces, not a step advance.
Página 11 - If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit...
Página 2 - And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove?
Página 171 - Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, Where o'er the gates, by his fam'd father's hand Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand; One Cell there is, conceal'd from vulgar eye, The Cave of Poverty and Poetry. Keen, hollow winds howl thro' the bleak recess, Emblem of Music caus'd by Emptiness.
Página 127 - ... or science, which have not been touched upon by others ; we have little else left us but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights. If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry...