The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements; together with all his notes: pr. verbatim from the octavo ed. of mr. Warburton, Band 4 |
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But Poets should be cautious how they employ this figure ; for where the likeness
is not very striking , instead of giving force , they become obscure . Here , every
thing concurs to make them run into one another , Thrond on the centre of his thin
...
But Poets should be cautious how they employ this figure ; for where the likeness
is not very striking , instead of giving force , they become obscure . Here , every
thing concurs to make them run into one another , Thrond on the centre of his thin
...
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The turn of this ludicrous argumentation is fine and delicate ; and we find his
Imitator saw the whole force of it . VIR . 71. I only wear it in a land of Hectors , etc.
] Superior to , tutus ab infestis latronibus , which only carries on the metaphor in ...
The turn of this ludicrous argumentation is fine and delicate ; and we find his
Imitator saw the whole force of it . VIR . 71. I only wear it in a land of Hectors , etc.
] Superior to , tutus ab infestis latronibus , which only carries on the metaphor in ...
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... Nous sommes pauvres avec les Richesses & le commerce de « tout l'Univers ;
& bientôt , à force d'avoir des Soldats , nous “ n'aurons plus que des Soldats , &
nous serons comme des “ Tartares . ' y Cervius iratus leges minitatur et urnam ...
... Nous sommes pauvres avec les Richesses & le commerce de « tout l'Univers ;
& bientôt , à force d'avoir des Soldats , nous “ n'aurons plus que des Soldats , &
nous serons comme des “ Tartares . ' y Cervius iratus leges minitatur et urnam ...
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Horace evades the force of it with a quibble , Efto , fiquis mala ; sed ' bona fi quis .
But the Imitator's grave Epißles fhew the satire to be a serious reproof , and
therefore juftifiable ; which the integer ipse of the Original does not : for however
this ...
Horace evades the force of it with a quibble , Efto , fiquis mala ; sed ' bona fi quis .
But the Imitator's grave Epißles fhew the satire to be a serious reproof , and
therefore juftifiable ; which the integer ipse of the Original does not : for however
this ...
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159. not a word they spare , That wants or force , or ligbe , op weigbt , or care , ]
Force and light respect figuratie ? expreffion ; and signify , that it be such as
awakes the imagination , and be taken from obvious subjects ; for without the first
...
159. not a word they spare , That wants or force , or ligbe , op weigbt , or care , ]
Force and light respect figuratie ? expreffion ; and signify , that it be such as
awakes the imagination , and be taken from obvious subjects ; for without the first
...
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Seite 49 - Hear this, and tremble! you, who 'scape the Laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave ^/ Shall walk the World, in credit, to his grave.
Seite 27 - 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 ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Seite 12 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Seite 14 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Seite 4 - 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.
Seite 13 - 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...
Seite 167 - Bright through the rubbish of some hundred years ; Command old words, that long have slept, to wake, Words that wise Bacon or...
Seite 6 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage!' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Seite 20 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er 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...
Seite 41 - My head and heart thus flowing thro' my quill, Verse-man or prose-man, term me which you will, Papist or Protestant, or both between, Like good Erasmus in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory.