The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs. Warburton and Warton [&c.]. To which are added, some original letters, with additional observations, and memoirs, by W.L. Bowles, Band 41806 |
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... cause to draw the Pen ! " It were also to be wished , that charity had induced him a mo- ment to paufe , before he published fome lines , which no provocation from woman to man could justify : I need not point them out . Let us alfo ...
... cause to draw the Pen ! " It were also to be wished , that charity had induced him a mo- ment to paufe , before he published fome lines , which no provocation from woman to man could justify : I need not point them out . Let us alfo ...
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... cause : Poor Cornus fees his frantic wife elope , And curfes Wit , and Poetry , and Pope . Friend to my life ! ( which did not you prolong , The world had wanted many an idle fong ) 21 25 What VARIATIONS . After Ver . 20 in the MS . Is ...
... cause : Poor Cornus fees his frantic wife elope , And curfes Wit , and Poetry , and Pope . Friend to my life ! ( which did not you prolong , The world had wanted many an idle fong ) 21 25 What VARIATIONS . After Ver . 20 in the MS . Is ...
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... cause of Pope's continued invective against Cibber , is thus given in the letter before mentioned : " The play of the Rehearsal , which had laid fome few years dormant , being by his prefent Majefty ( George II . ) , then Prince of ...
... cause of Pope's continued invective against Cibber , is thus given in the letter before mentioned : " The play of the Rehearsal , which had laid fome few years dormant , being by his prefent Majefty ( George II . ) , then Prince of ...
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... cause of Gay's being neglected at Court , appears in Coxe's Walpole . He expected preferment through the intereft of Mrs. Howard , miftrefs to George II . , afterwards countefs of Suffolk . this point is fo curious , and fo clearly ...
... cause of Gay's being neglected at Court , appears in Coxe's Walpole . He expected preferment through the intereft of Mrs. Howard , miftrefs to George II . , afterwards countefs of Suffolk . this point is fo curious , and fo clearly ...
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... cause of his own disgrace ; for he thought that Mrs , Howard was all - powerful at court , and that he , whom Swift humorously calls one of her led captains , fhould rife by her recommendation . Pope alfo , in a letter to Swift , al ...
... cause of his own disgrace ; for he thought that Mrs , Howard was all - powerful at court , and that he , whom Swift humorously calls one of her led captains , fhould rife by her recommendation . Pope alfo , in a letter to Swift , al ...
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Addiſon againſt alfo alludes alſo Author becauſe beſt Biſhop Boileau Brutus cauſe character circumftance Court defire Dryden Dunciad Engliſh Epiftle Ev'n ev'ry expreffion faid fame fatire fays feems fenfe fentiments feveral fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fome fool fpeaking ftill ftyle fubject fublime fuch fuperior genius greateſt himſelf Homer honour Horace Houſe Iliad imitation juft juſt King laft laſt lefs lines Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Hervey manners maſter moft moſt muft muſt nature NOTES numbers obferved occafion paffage paffions perfon pleaſe pleaſure Poem Poet poetry Pope Pope's praiſe prefent profe publiſhed purpoſe quæ quid quod raiſed reaſon Satire ſays ſeems Shakeſpear ſhe Sir Robert Sir Robert Walpole ſome ſpeak ſpirit ſtate ſtill ſtyle ſuch taſte thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thouſand tranflation uſed verfe verſe Virgil Virtue Walpole WARBURTON WARTON whofe whoſe words write
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 93 - There my Retreat, the best Companions grace, Chiefs out of War, and Statesmen out of Place. There ST JOHN mingles with my friendly Bowl, The Feast of Reason, and the Flow of Soul. And HE, whose Lightning pierc'd th...
Seite 36 - 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 21 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Seite 413 - His similes are like pictures, where the principal figure has not only its proportion given agreeable to the original, but is also set off with occasional ornaments and prospects.
Seite 215 - Nassau to Kneller's hand decreed To fix him graceful on the bounding Steed; So well in paint and stone they judg'd of merit: But Kings in Wit may want discerning spirit.
Seite 11 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay '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.
Seite 89 - What? arm'd for virtue when I point the pen, Brand the bold front of shameless guilty men; Dash the proud gamester in his gilded car ; Bare the mean heart that lurks beneath a star ; Can there be wanting, to defend her cause, Lights of the Church, or guardians of the laws ? no Could pension'd Boileau lash in honest strain Flatt'rers and bigots ev'n in Louis
Seite 353 - I touch thee ! but with honest zeal, To rouse the watchmen of the public weal, To virtue's work provoke the tardy hall, And goad the prelate, slumbering in his stall.
Seite 15 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage!' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Seite 20 - 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...