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,C. and J. Rivington; T. Cadell; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green; J. Cuthell; J. Nunn; ... [and 25 others in London]; and Deighton and Sons, Cambridge; and A. Black, and J. Fairbairn, Edinburgh., 1824 |
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... taste ; that , most commonly , it was form- ed on that of half a dozen people in fashion , who took the lead , and who sometimes have intruded on the town the dullest per- formances for works of wit , while , at the same time , some ...
... taste ; that , most commonly , it was form- ed on that of half a dozen people in fashion , who took the lead , and who sometimes have intruded on the town the dullest per- formances for works of wit , while , at the same time , some ...
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... Taste . See Mr. Pope's letter to the Earl of Burlington concern- ing this matter . Pope . Ver . 305. Let Sporus tremble- ] Language cannot afford more glowing or more forcible terms to express the utmost bitterness of contempt . We ...
... Taste . See Mr. Pope's letter to the Earl of Burlington concern- ing this matter . Pope . Ver . 305. Let Sporus tremble- ] Language cannot afford more glowing or more forcible terms to express the utmost bitterness of contempt . We ...
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... tastes , and beauty ne'er enjoys : 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 ...
... tastes , and beauty ne'er enjoys : 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 ...
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... taste . He affected to despise poetry , and he depreciated the ancients : which circumstance , as I was informed by the late Mr. James Harris , his relation , was the source of per- petual discontent and dispute betwixt him and his ...
... taste . He affected to despise poetry , and he depreciated the ancients : which circumstance , as I was informed by the late Mr. James Harris , his relation , was the source of per- petual discontent and dispute betwixt him and his ...
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... taste ; but that if , instead of ham - pie , he had given him sweet - pie , he never could have pardoned him . Warburton . Lyttelton , in his Dialogues of the Dead , has introduced Darte- neuf , in a pleasant discourse betwixt him and ...
... taste ; but that if , instead of ham - pie , he had given him sweet - pie , he never could have pardoned him . Warburton . Lyttelton , in his Dialogues of the Dead , has introduced Darte- neuf , in a pleasant discourse betwixt him and ...
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Página 173 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Página 37 - A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross?
Página 78 - A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Página 32 - 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 36 - 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 71 - 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 410 - ... sermo oritur, non de villis domibusve alienis, nee 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 202 - But for the wits of either Charles's days, The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease ; Sprat, Carew, Sedley, and a hundred more, (Like twinkling stars the miscellanies o'er) One simile, that solitary shines In the dry desert of a thousand lines, Or lengthen'd thought that gleams through many a page, Has sanctified whole poems for an age.
Página 460 - 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 39 - twas when he knew no better. Dare you refuse him? Curll invites to dine; He'll write a journal, or he'll turn divine." Bless me! a packet. — " 'Tis a stranger sues, A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse." If I dislike it, "Furies, death and rage!" If I approve, "Commend it to the stage.