The DunciadJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... youth , Thy tale will justify this truth . But well I weet thy cruel wrong Adorns a nobler Poet's fong : Letter to B. B. at the end of the Remarks on Pope's Homer , Printed 1728 , p . 12 . ▾ Alma , Cant . 2 . 1717 Dan Pope , for thy ...
... youth , Thy tale will justify this truth . But well I weet thy cruel wrong Adorns a nobler Poet's fong : Letter to B. B. at the end of the Remarks on Pope's Homer , Printed 1728 , p . 12 . ▾ Alma , Cant . 2 . 1717 Dan Pope , for thy ...
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... youth , what column wilt thou chufe , " What laurel'd arch , for thy triumphant Muse ? " Tho ' each great ancient court thee to his fhrine , " Tho ' ev'ry laurel thro ' the dome be thine , " Go to the good and just , an awful train ...
... youth , what column wilt thou chufe , " What laurel'd arch , for thy triumphant Muse ? " Tho ' each great ancient court thee to his fhrine , " Tho ' ev'ry laurel thro ' the dome be thine , " Go to the good and just , an awful train ...
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... Youth than of riper Age : But it is far otherwise in Poetry ; witness the works of Mr. Rymer and Mr. Dennis , who begin- ning with Criticism , became afterwards fuch Poets as no age hath paralleled . With good reafon therefore did our ...
... Youth than of riper Age : But it is far otherwise in Poetry ; witness the works of Mr. Rymer and Mr. Dennis , who begin- ning with Criticism , became afterwards fuch Poets as no age hath paralleled . With good reafon therefore did our ...
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... Youth ; doubtless by that refinement it fuffers in paffing through those certain ftrainers which our Poet fomewhere fpeaketh of . But when it is let alone to work upon the Lees , it acquireth ftrength by Old age ; and becometh a lafting ...
... Youth ; doubtless by that refinement it fuffers in paffing through those certain ftrainers which our Poet fomewhere fpeaketh of . But when it is let alone to work upon the Lees , it acquireth ftrength by Old age ; and becometh a lafting ...
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... youth he met the Revolution face to face in Nottingham , at a time when his betters con- tented themselves with following her . It was here he got acquainted with Old Battle - array , of whom he hath made fo honourable mention in one of ...
... youth he met the Revolution face to face in Nottingham , at a time when his betters con- tented themselves with following her . It was here he got acquainted with Old Battle - array , of whom he hath made fo honourable mention in one of ...
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Seite 80 - There motley Images her fancy strike, Figures ill pair'd, and Similies unlike. She sees a Mob of Metaphors advance, Pleas'd with the madness of the mazy dance: How Tragedy and Comedy embrace; How Farce and Epic get a jumbled race; How Time himself stands still at her command, Realms shift their place, and Ocean turns to land.
Seite 210 - Furthermore, it drove out of England (for that season) the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for ten years.
Seite 230 - When Reason doubtful, like the Samian letter, Points him two ways, the narrower is the better. Plac'd at the door of Learning, youth to guide, We never suffer it to stand too wide.
Seite 90 - Blasphem'd his gods, the dice, and damn'd his fate ; Then gnaw'd his pen, then dash'd it on the ground, Sinking from thought to thought, a vast profound ! Plung'd for his sense, but found no bottom there, Yet wrote and flounder'd on in mere despair.
Seite xxii - The Art of Criticism, which was published some months since, and is a master-piece in its kind. The observations follow one another like those in Horace's Art of Poetry, without that methodical regularity which would have been requisite in a prose author.
Seite 296 - ... all the great characters of the age; and this with impunity, their own persons and names being utterly secret and obscure.
Seite 284 - Lost was the Nation's Sense, nor could be found, While the long solemn Unison went round: Wide, and more wide, it spread o'er all the realm; Ev'n Palinurus nodded at the Helm: The Vapour mild o'er each Committee crept; Unfinish'd Treaties in each Office slept; And Chiefless Armies doz'd out the Campaign; And, Navies yawn'd for Orders on the Main.
Seite xxvi - Whether Mr. Addifon did find it conformable to his tafte, or not, beft appears from his own teftimony the year following its publication, in thefe words : Mr.
Seite 296 - ... would not find their account in employing them, or the men themfelves, when difcovered, want courage to proceed in fo unlawful an occupation. This it was that gave birth to The Dunciad, and he thought it an happinefs, that by the late flood of flander on himfelf, he had acquired fuch a peculiar right over their names, as was neceflary to this defign.