Warburton and his quarrels; including an illustration of his literary character. Pope and his miscellaneous quarrels. A narrative of the extraordinary transactions respecting the publication of Pope's letters. Pope and Cibber; containing a vindication of the comic writer. Pope and Addison. Bolingbroke's and Mallet's posthumous quarrel with Pope. Lintot's book of accounts. Pope and Settle. The Royal society. Sir John Hill, with the Royal society, Fielding, Smart, &c. Boyle and BentleyEastburn, Kirk & Company, 1814 |
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... curiosity , or satis , faction of those that are the lovers of learning , but chiefly for a more grave and serious purpose ; which is , that it will make learned men wise in the use and administration of learning . Lord Bacon , of ...
... curiosity , or satis , faction of those that are the lovers of learning , but chiefly for a more grave and serious purpose ; which is , that it will make learned men wise in the use and administration of learning . Lord Bacon , of ...
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... curious and vast in our researches . He ennobled a collection of facts , by his reason- ings , and exhibited them ... curiosity ; one , practised in all the secret arts of literary research , in public repositories and in private ...
... curious and vast in our researches . He ennobled a collection of facts , by his reason- ings , and exhibited them ... curiosity ; one , practised in all the secret arts of literary research , in public repositories and in private ...
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... curious , and posses- sing knowledge as ample as the liberality which imparts it , he preserves among us the spirit of the BODLEYS and the SLOANES . - Of my old and respected friend Mr. JOHN NICHOLS , who has devoted a life to ...
... curious , and posses- sing knowledge as ample as the liberality which imparts it , he preserves among us the spirit of the BODLEYS and the SLOANES . - Of my old and respected friend Mr. JOHN NICHOLS , who has devoted a life to ...
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... curious argument of his Alliance between Church and State - the bold paradox of his Divine Legation - the demonstration ends in a conjecture- Warburton lost in the labyrinth he had ingeniously construct- ed - confesses the harrassed ...
... curious argument of his Alliance between Church and State - the bold paradox of his Divine Legation - the demonstration ends in a conjecture- Warburton lost in the labyrinth he had ingeniously construct- ed - confesses the harrassed ...
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... curious labour of one anonymous Critic , who is so well known ; and all that Taste , warmed by a however , was , that BROWN was then on the point of quar- relling with WARBURTON ; for he laments , in a letter to a friend , that " he had ...
... curious labour of one anonymous Critic , who is so well known ; and all that Taste , warmed by a however , was , that BROWN was then on the point of quar- relling with WARBURTON ; for he laments , in a letter to a friend , that " he had ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accused Addison adversary Æneid Æsop alluded ancient appears Aristotelian Aristotle asserted attack Attic style Author Bentley Bentley's Bolingbroke bookseller Boyle called character Chimæra Cibber Codrus controversy curious Curll Dean Aldrich Dedication Dennis discovered Divine Legation Dunces Dunciad edition elegant Epistle Essay Essay on Criticism facetious favour feelings genius gentleman give Glanville honour human humour HURD imagined impudent Inspector invention Johnson King knowledge labours learned letter Literary Quarrels Lord Lord Bolingbroke LowTH malice Mallet Martin Folkes mind Mohocks narrative nature never Notes observed opinion original pamphlet paradox passage perpetual person Phalaris philosophical Poem Poet political Pope Pope's posterity Preface preserved printed prose published replied Ridicule Royal Society satire Satirist says SECRET PRINCIPLE seems Shakespeare shew Sir John Hill Sir William Temple spirit Stubbe style taste Theobald thing tion truth verse volume WARBUR WARBURTON Warburtonian write written wrote
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Seite 5 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Seite 136 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Seite 264 - ... ribs; so was this pair of friends transfixed, till down they fell, joined in their lives, joined in their deaths; so closely joined that Charon would mistake them both for one, and waft them over Styx, for half his fare.
Seite 80 - Pope,' insinuating that I was whipped in Ham Walks on Thursday last : — -This is to give notice, that I did not stir out of my house at Twickenham on that day ; and the same is a malicious and ill-founded report. — AP...
Seite 98 - EC required an answer : AP having never had, nor intending to have, any private correspondence with the said EC, gives it him in this manner. That he knows no such person as PT ; that he believes he hath no such collection ; and that he thinks the whole a forgery, and shall not trouble himself at all about it.
Seite 9 - Colonel Harrison was the son of a butcher, and had been bred up in the place of a clerk, under a lawyer of good account in those parts ; which kind of education introduces men into the language and practice of business ; and if it be not resisted by the great ingenuity of the person, inclines young men to more pride than any other kind of breeding, and disposes them to be pragmatical and insolent.
Seite 181 - Suppose two pails of water were fixed in two different scales that were equally poised, and which weighed equally alike, and that two live bream, or small fish, were put into either of these pails, he wanted to know the reason why that pail, with such addition, should not weigh more than the other pail which stood against it.
Seite 100 - Lords for breach of privilege ; and attended himself to stimulate the resentment of his friends. Curll appeared at the bar, and, knowing himself in no great danger, spoke of Pope with very little reverence : " He has," said Curll, " a knack at versifying ; but in prose I think myself a match for him.
Seite 56 - The Socrates of Aristophanes is as truly ridiculous a character as ever was drawn: — true; but it is not the character of Socrates, the divine moralist and father of ancient wisdom. What then? did the ridicule of the poet hinder the philosopher from detecting and disclaiming those foreign...