The Works of Alexander Pope, Volumen4J. F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... words : " In two large columns , on thy motley page , Where Roman wit is strip'd with English rage ; Where ribaldry to satire makes pretence , And modern scandal rolls with ancient sense : Whilst on one side we see how Horace thought ...
... words : " In two large columns , on thy motley page , Where Roman wit is strip'd with English rage ; Where ribaldry to satire makes pretence , And modern scandal rolls with ancient sense : Whilst on one side we see how Horace thought ...
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... word perks has particular force and emphasis . Sir Ro- bert Walpole and Queen Caroline were here pointed at . Boi- leau wrote his ninth Satire first in prose ; of which there was a copy in the late French King's Library . His very ...
... word perks has particular force and emphasis . Sir Ro- bert Walpole and Queen Caroline were here pointed at . Boi- leau wrote his ninth Satire first in prose ; of which there was a copy in the late French King's Library . His very ...
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... words seem added merely for the verse , and are what the French call a cheville . Ver . 135. But why then publish ? To the three first names that encouraged his earliest writings , he has added other friends , whose acquaintance with ...
... words seem added merely for the verse , and are what the French call a cheville . Ver . 135. But why then publish ? To the three first names that encouraged his earliest writings , he has added other friends , whose acquaintance with ...
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... sort of Censure in the lines following : " While pure Description held the place of Sense , " & c . P. Every word and epithet here used is exactly characteristical And St. John's self ( great Dryden's friends before ) 20 PROLOGUE.
... sort of Censure in the lines following : " While pure Description held the place of Sense , " & c . P. Every word and epithet here used is exactly characteristical And St. John's self ( great Dryden's friends before ) 20 PROLOGUE.
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... Word - catcher that lives on syllables , NOTES . 166 tional cause for Pope's resentment : that Atterbury , being in com ... words which I transcribed at the time . Ver . 163. These ribalds , ] How deservedly this title is given to the ...
... Word - catcher that lives on syllables , NOTES . 166 tional cause for Pope's resentment : that Atterbury , being in com ... words which I transcribed at the time . Ver . 163. These ribalds , ] How deservedly this title is given to the ...
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Página 32 - Peace to all such ! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone. Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Página 32 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Página 13 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse." If I dislike it, "Furies, death, and rage!" If I approve, "Commend it to the stage.
Página 408 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.
Página 45 - So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 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, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Página 53 - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Página 11 - 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 52 - Bestia's from the throne. Born to no pride, inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious through his age.
Página 34 - Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying all abroad?
Página 369 - It is to the strength of this amazing invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture which is so forcible in Homer that no man of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him.