The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks, Volumen6J. Rivington, 1824 |
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... speak of himself with freedom , impartia- lity , and ease . Amongst the ancients , those who are the most re- markable for this talent , are perhaps Cicero and Horace ; amongst the moderns , Ariosto and Montaigne . Whether the character ...
... speak of himself with freedom , impartia- lity , and ease . Amongst the ancients , those who are the most re- markable for this talent , are perhaps Cicero and Horace ; amongst the moderns , Ariosto and Montaigne . Whether the character ...
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... speak of that by which he himself had been injured and offended : and concludes with the character of one who had wantonly outraged him , and in the most sensible manner ( ver . 270 to 334 ) . And here , moved again with fresh ...
... speak of that by which he himself had been injured and offended : and concludes with the character of one who had wantonly outraged him , and in the most sensible manner ( ver . 270 to 334 ) . And here , moved again with fresh ...
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... speak or burst . NOTES . 70 Ver . 69. ' Tis sung when Midas ' , & c . ] The poet means , sung by Persius ; and the words alluded to are Vidi , vidi ipse , Libelle ! Auriculas asini Midas rex habet . The transition is fine , but obscure ...
... speak or burst . NOTES . 70 Ver . 69. ' Tis sung when Midas ' , & c . ] The poet means , sung by Persius ; and the words alluded to are Vidi , vidi ipse , Libelle ! Auriculas asini Midas rex habet . The transition is fine , but obscure ...
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... speaking of two of them , Clavius and Lipsius , he calls the first a monster of ignorance ; and the other , a slave to the Jesuits , and an idiot . But so great was his love of sacred amity at the same time , that he says , I still keep ...
... speaking of two of them , Clavius and Lipsius , he calls the first a monster of ignorance ; and the other , a slave to the Jesuits , and an idiot . But so great was his love of sacred amity at the same time , that he says , I still keep ...
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... speak with Gay , and told him he had injured him , probably with respect to his getting preferment at Court ; but , if he lived , he would make him amends ! " Where did Spence get this anecdote ? how came it never mentioned openly ...
... speak with Gay , and told him he had injured him , probably with respect to his getting preferment at Court ; but , if he lived , he would make him amends ! " Where did Spence get this anecdote ? how came it never mentioned openly ...
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Página 177 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Página 41 - A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross?
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 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 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 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. VOL. V. K 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...
Página 46 - He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew: Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain, The creature's at his dirty work again...
Página 388 - 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. O sacred weapon ! left for Truth's defence, Sole dread of folly, vice, and insolence ! To all but Heaven-directed hands denied, The Muse may give thee, but the gods must guide.