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( Sentiments , which no efforts of genius , without the concura rence of the heart ,
could have expressed in strains so exquisitely sublime ) that the sole object of his
refentment was vice and baseness . In the detection of which , he artfully takes ...
( Sentiments , which no efforts of genius , without the concura rence of the heart ,
could have expressed in strains so exquisitely sublime ) that the sole object of his
refentment was vice and baseness . In the detection of which , he artfully takes ...
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The other two , with very bad heads , had hearts still worse . Ver . 148 . While
pure Defcrip : ion held the place of Sense ? 1 He uses pure equivocally , to
signify either chasłe or empts ; and has given in this line what he eficemed the
true ...
The other two , with very bad heads , had hearts still worse . Ver . 148 . While
pure Defcrip : ion held the place of Sense ? 1 He uses pure equivocally , to
signify either chasłe or empts ; and has given in this line what he eficemed the
true ...
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The other two , with very bad heads , had hearts still worse . Ver . 148 . While
pure Defcriprion held the place of Sense ? 1 He uses pure equivocally , to fignify
either chaste or empty , and has given in this line what he eficemed the true ...
The other two , with very bad heads , had hearts still worse . Ver . 148 . While
pure Defcriprion held the place of Sense ? 1 He uses pure equivocally , to fignify
either chaste or empty , and has given in this line what he eficemed the true ...
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293 . - — felfishly approve , ] Because to deny , or pretend not to see , a well
established merit , would impeach his own heart or understanding , VER . 294 .
And how the sense of it without the love ; ] 1 . e , will never suffer the admiration of
an ...
293 . - — felfishly approve , ] Because to deny , or pretend not to see , a well
established merit , would impeach his own heart or understanding , VER . 294 .
And how the sense of it without the love ; ] 1 . e , will never suffer the admiration of
an ...
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His wit all fee - law , between that and this . ) Now high , now low , now master up
, now miss , > And he himself one vile Antithesis . 325 ) Amphibious thing ! that
acting either part , The trifling head , or the corrupted heart , Notes , Ver . 319 .
His wit all fee - law , between that and this . ) Now high , now low , now master up
, now miss , > And he himself one vile Antithesis . 325 ) Amphibious thing ! that
acting either part , The trifling head , or the corrupted heart , Notes , Ver . 319 .
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Seite 8 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage!' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Seite 22 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Seite 24 - Fed with soft Dedication all day long, Horace and he went hand in hand in song. His library, where busts of poets dead...
Seite 271 - Seen him, uncumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. Would he oblige me? let me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind.
Seite 7 - And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove?
Seite 27 - Yet why? that father held it for a rule, It was a sin to call our neighbour fool: That harmless mother thought no wife a whore: Hear this, and spare his family, James Moore! Unspotted names, and memorable long! If there be force in virtue, or in song.
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.
Seite 10 - It is" the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent : Alas ! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates in high heroic prose, And ridicules beyond a hundred foes : One from all Grub-street will my fame defend, And, more abusive, calls himself my friend. This prints my letters, that expects a bribe, And others roar aloud,
Seite 29 - 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 8 - Lintot, dull rogue! will think your price too much." "Not, sir, if you revise it, and retouch.