The Works of Alexander Pope, Band 4J. F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... seem produc'd by toil . Satire should , like a polish'd razor keen , Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen . Thine is an oyster - knife , that hacks and hews , The rage , but not the talent of abuse ; And is in hate what love ...
... seem produc'd by toil . Satire should , like a polish'd razor keen , Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen . Thine is an oyster - knife , that hacks and hews , The rage , but not the talent of abuse ; And is in hate what love ...
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... seems to be judicious and well - founded : " If you think my opinion worth regarding , I would say , that the Satires of Juvenal ought never to be read till our taste is fixed and con- firmed , and we are thoroughly tinctured with a ...
... seems to be judicious and well - founded : " If you think my opinion worth regarding , I would say , that the Satires of Juvenal ought never to be read till our taste is fixed and con- firmed , and we are thoroughly tinctured with a ...
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... seem a wit ? Sapp 95 100 Still Sappho A. Hold for God - sake you'll of fend . No Names - be calm - learn prudence of a friend : I too could write , and I am twice as tall ; But foes like these - P . One Flatt'rer's worse than all . Of ...
... seem a wit ? Sapp 95 100 Still Sappho A. Hold for God - sake you'll of fend . No Names - be calm - learn prudence of a friend : I too could write , and I am twice as tall ; But foes like these - P . One Flatt'rer's worse than all . Of ...
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... seem added merely for the verse , and are what the French call a cheville . Ver . 135. But why then publish ? To the three first names that encouraged his earliest writings , he has added other friends , whose acquaintance with him did ...
... seem added merely for the verse , and are what the French call a cheville . Ver . 135. But why then publish ? To the three first names that encouraged his earliest writings , he has added other friends , whose acquaintance with him did ...
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... seems to have received this anecdote , about the time of his writing the character ( viz . about July 1715 ) , was no other than the Earl of Warwick , son - in - law to Mr. Addison himself ; and the something about Wycherley ( in which ...
... seems to have received this anecdote , about the time of his writing the character ( viz . about July 1715 ) , was no other than the Earl of Warwick , son - in - law to Mr. Addison himself ; and the something about Wycherley ( in which ...
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Addison admirable Æneid Alluding ancient Aristotle atque Augustus Author beauty Ben Jonson better Bishop Boileau Brutus called censure character Court critics Dacier divine Donne Dryden Dunciad Elijah Fenton English Epic Epistle Ev'n ev'ry excellent expression fable father fool French genius give grace Greek Homer honour Horace Iliad imitation invention judgment King language laugh learned lines live Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Fanny Lucilius manners mean Milton moral Muse nature never NOTES numbers nunc observed Odyssey Original passage person piece Pindar Poem Poet Poet's poetical poetry Pope Pope's Pow'r praise Prince quæ quam quid Quintilian quod racter rhyme ridicule Satire says sense Shakspeare shew speak spirit style sublime Swift tamen taste thing thought tibi tion tragedy translation true truth verse Virgil Virtue Voltaire Whig whole words write wrote
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Seite 32 - Peace to all such ! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, 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 32 - 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 13 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse." If I dislike it, "Furies, death, and rage!" If I approve, "Commend it to the stage.
Seite 408 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.
Seite 45 - So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks, Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Seite 53 - 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 11 - 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 52 - Bestia's from the throne. Born to no pride, inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious through his age.
Seite 34 - Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying all abroad?
Seite 369 - It is to the strength of this amazing invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture which is so forcible in Homer that no man of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him.