The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others: To which Were Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks, Volumen6C. and J. Rivington, 1824 |
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... observe a striking similarity . Both poets ; both devoted to their art ; both avoiding a marriage life ; and equally remarkable for affectionate attachment to an aged mother . Both possessed of an elegant sufficiency , and providing ...
... observe a striking similarity . Both poets ; both devoted to their art ; both avoiding a marriage life ; and equally remarkable for affectionate attachment to an aged mother . Both possessed of an elegant sufficiency , and providing ...
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... observation : " I am glad to find in your smaller edition , that your con- science has since given this line some correction ; for there you have taken off a little of its edge : it there runs only thus : The players and I are luckily ...
... observation : " I am glad to find in your smaller edition , that your con- science has since given this line some correction ; for there you have taken off a little of its edge : it there runs only thus : The players and I are luckily ...
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... observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or fair man , of a mild or cho- leric disposition , married or a bachelor . " What passages in Ho- race are more agreeable than ...
... observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or fair man , of a mild or cho- leric disposition , married or a bachelor . " What passages in Ho- race are more agreeable than ...
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... Man ; but we must admit that many of his observations were well founded , and that they evince considerable classical knowledge , as well as shrewdness . Bowles . If want provoked , or madness made them print , 52 PROLOGUE TO.
... Man ; but we must admit that many of his observations were well founded , and that they evince considerable classical knowledge , as well as shrewdness . Bowles . If want provoked , or madness made them print , 52 PROLOGUE TO.
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... observed , in favour of Pope , that Dr. Clarke , whose critical exactness is well known , has not been able to point out above three or four mistakes in the sense throughout the whole Iliad . The real faults of that trans- lation are of ...
... observed , in favour of Pope , that Dr. Clarke , whose critical exactness is well known , has not been able to point out above three or four mistakes in the sense throughout the whole Iliad . The real faults of that trans- lation are of ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Addison admirable alludes atque Augustus Ben Jonson Bishop Boileau Bolingbroke Bowles called character corruption court Cùm Dialogue divine Donne Dryden Dunciad Earl Elijah Fenton Epistle father flatterers folly fool genius give grace heart honest honour Horace Houyhnhnm humour imitation king Lady laugh learned letter libels lines live Lord Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke Lord Cornbury Lucilius malè manner mihi minister moral Muse nature ne'er never NOTES numbers nunc o'er original passage person Pindaric pleased poem poet poet's poetry Pope Pope's praise quæ Queen Quid quod racter rage rhyme ridicule Sappho satire says sense shew Sir Robert Walpole smile soul spirit style Swift tamen taste tell thee thing thou thought tibi tion translation truth Twickenham verse vice virtue virtue's Voltaire Warburton Warton Whig words writ write wrote
Pasajes populares
Página 177 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Página 82 - Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all seesaw, between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis.
Página 41 - A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross?
Página 36 - 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 a while one parent from the sky!
Página 40 - tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Página 75 - Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do:) Maintain a Poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please : Above a Patron, tho...
Página 414 - ... male necne Lepos saltet; sed quod magis ad nos pertinet et nescire malum est agitamus: utrumne divitiis homines an sint virtute beati; quidve ad amicitias, usus rectumne, trahat nos; 75 et quae sit natura boni summumque quid eius.
Página 464 - So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along : But such is thy avarice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must have starved, and the poet have died. THE BALANCE OF EUROPE. Now Europe balanced, neither side prevails ; For nothing's left in either of the scales.
Página 81 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings...
Página 63 - 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, Alike...