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 41754 |
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... the word furprize . VER . 30. Procure a TASTE to double the furprize . ] This is one of those fuperior touches that most ennoble a perfect piece . He Or f Popularity ? or Stars and Strings ? g I 96 Book II . IMITATIONS.
... the word furprize . VER . 30. Procure a TASTE to double the furprize . ] This is one of those fuperior touches that most ennoble a perfect piece . He Or f Popularity ? or Stars and Strings ? g I 96 Book II . IMITATIONS.
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... TASTE to double the furprize , And gaze on 20 25 30 m Parian Charms with learned eyes : fpeaks here of falfe tafte , as appears by his directions how to get it , and how to use it when got . Procure a tafte , fays he . That is , of the ...
... TASTE to double the furprize , And gaze on 20 25 30 m Parian Charms with learned eyes : fpeaks here of falfe tafte , as appears by his directions how to get it , and how to use it when got . Procure a tafte , fays he . That is , of the ...
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... taste here condemned : and in which Dr. Swift seems to have placed no inconfiderable part of his wisdom . " I chufe ( says he , in a Letter to Mr. Pope ) my Com . " panions amongst those of the leaft confequence , and moft " compliance ...
... taste here condemned : and in which Dr. Swift seems to have placed no inconfiderable part of his wisdom . " I chufe ( says he , in a Letter to Mr. Pope ) my Com . " panions amongst those of the leaft confequence , and moft " compliance ...
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... Taste among the Romans ) that the Introduction of the Polite Arts of Greece had given the Writers of his Time great advantages over their Predeceffors ; that their Morals were much improved , and the licence of those ancient Poets ...
... Taste among the Romans ) that the Introduction of the Polite Arts of Greece had given the Writers of his Time great advantages over their Predeceffors ; that their Morals were much improved , and the licence of those ancient Poets ...
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... 240. Yet the noble fobriety of the original , or , at leaft , the appearance of fobriety , which is the fame thing here , is of a taste vaftly fupe- rior to it . £ 210 215 What's long or fhort , each accent where 130 IMITATIONS Book I.
... 240. Yet the noble fobriety of the original , or , at leaft , the appearance of fobriety , which is the fame thing here , is of a taste vaftly fupe- rior to it . £ 210 215 What's long or fhort , each accent where 130 IMITATIONS Book I.
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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.