The Papers of a Critic: Memoir. Pope's writings. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Swift, &cJ. Murray, 1875 |
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... biographers of Pope will have to contend with is " the Letters." Some of our readers will remember the circumstances under which they were first published. Johnson said, and truly, that it was one of the passages in Pope's life which ...
... biographers of Pope will have to contend with is " the Letters." Some of our readers will remember the circumstances under which they were first published. Johnson said, and truly, that it was one of the passages in Pope's life which ...
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... biographers . Here is a literary treasure - trove ! One hundred and fifty of Pope's unpublished Letters , and a Life with many new facts , and many old errors corrected ! We linger lovingly over the golden promise . We " take the ...
... biographers . Here is a literary treasure - trove ! One hundred and fifty of Pope's unpublished Letters , and a Life with many new facts , and many old errors corrected ! We linger lovingly over the golden promise . We " take the ...
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... biographers , to find proof that what ought to have been developed has been obscured or passed over ; and that what has been preserved in amber is but too frequently the current nonsense of the hour - the babble of ignorance the ...
... biographers , to find proof that what ought to have been developed has been obscured or passed over ; and that what has been preserved in amber is but too frequently the current nonsense of the hour - the babble of ignorance the ...
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... biographers of Pope will have to contend with is " the Letters . " Some of our readers will remember the circumstances under which they were first published . Johnson said , and truly , that it was one of the passages in Pope's life ...
... biographers of Pope will have to contend with is " the Letters . " Some of our readers will remember the circumstances under which they were first published . Johnson said , and truly , that it was one of the passages in Pope's life ...
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... biographers have , in consequence , stumbled into strange absurdities . Thus the last , and not the worst , following the example of Roscoe , elucidates after this fashion : - : - " The Poet's liberal and tolerant sentiments on the ...
... biographers have , in consequence , stumbled into strange absurdities . Thus the last , and not the worst , following the example of Roscoe , elucidates after this fashion : - : - " The Poet's liberal and tolerant sentiments on the ...
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Seite 244 - Hark! they whisper; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?
Seite 8 - If I should die," said I to myself, " I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd.
Seite 125 - 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 awhile one parent from the sky...
Seite 139 - ... and lasting companion in the languor of age, in the quiet of privacy, when he departs, weary and disgusted, from the ostentatious, the volatile, and the vain. Of such a character, which the dull overlook and the gay despise, it was fit that the value should be made known, and the dignity established.
Seite 5 - I wish I could say Tom was any better. His identity presses upon me so all day that I am obliged to go out — and although I intended to have given some time to study alone, I am obliged to write and plunge into abstract images to ease myself of his countenance, his voice, and feebleness — so that I live now in a continual fever. It must be poisonous to life, although I feel well. Imagine " the hateful siege of contraries...
Seite 173 - A collection of the names of the merchants living in and about the city of London ; very usefull and necessary.
Seite 376 - These devils of Grub Street rogues, that write the Flying Post and Medley in one paper, will not be quiet. They are always mauling Lord Treasurer, Lord Bolingbroke, and me. We have the dog under prosecution, but Bolingbroke is not active enough ; but I hope to swinge him. He is a Scotch rogue, one Ridpath. They get out upon bail, and write on. We take them again, and get fresh bail; so it goes round.
Seite 102 - ... only by shining on. I am so far from es"teeming it any misfortune, that I congratulate you upon having your share in that which all the great men and all the good men that ever lived have had their part of — envy and calumny. To be uncensured and to be obscure is the same thing. You may conclude from what I here say, that it was never in my thoughts to have offered you my pen in any direct reply to such a critic, but only in some little raillery ; not in defence of you, but in contempt of him.
Seite 205 - Lepell) walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and we met no creature of any quality but the king, who gave audience to the vicechamberlain, all alone, under the garden wall.
Seite 5 - ... to study alone, I am obliged to write and plunge into abstract images to ease myself of his countenance, his voice, and feebleness — so that I live now in a continual fever. It must be poisonous to life, although I feel well. Imagine " the hateful siege of contraries " — if I think of fame, of poetry, it seems a crime to me, and yet I must do so or suffer.