The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks, Band 7J. Rivington, 1824 |
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... cause the executors durst not administer . Nor was the birth of this great man unattended with prodigies : he himself has often told me , that on the night before he was born , Mrs. Scriblerus dreamed she was brought to bed of a huge ...
... cause the executors durst not administer . Nor was the birth of this great man unattended with prodigies : he himself has often told me , that on the night before he was born , Mrs. Scriblerus dreamed she was brought to bed of a huge ...
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... of Russia ; and in which Sir Joshua combined all the striking circumstances men- tioned by Pindar as well as Theocritus , that attended this story . Warton . The regard he had for this shield , had caused MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS . 23.
... of Russia ; and in which Sir Joshua combined all the striking circumstances men- tioned by Pindar as well as Theocritus , that attended this story . Warton . The regard he had for this shield , had caused MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS . 23.
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... caused him formerly to compile a dissertation concerning it , * proving from the several properties , and par- ticularly the colour of the rust , the exact chrono- logy thereof . With this treatise , and a moderate supper , he proposed ...
... caused him formerly to compile a dissertation concerning it , * proving from the several properties , and par- ticularly the colour of the rust , the exact chrono- logy thereof . With this treatise , and a moderate supper , he proposed ...
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... cause of much delightful disputation , where doubt and curiosity went hand in hand , and eter- nally exercised the speculations of the learned ? All this the rude touch of an ignorant woman hath done away ! The curious prominence at the ...
... cause of much delightful disputation , where doubt and curiosity went hand in hand , and eter- nally exercised the speculations of the learned ? All this the rude touch of an ignorant woman hath done away ! The curious prominence at the ...
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... cause him to imbibe many ungovernable passions , and in a manner spoil him for the tem- per of a philosopher . Romulus , by sucking a wolf , became of a fierce and savage disposition ; and were I to breed some Ottoman Emperor , or foun ...
... cause him to imbibe many ungovernable passions , and in a manner spoil him for the tem- per of a philosopher . Romulus , by sucking a wolf , became of a fierce and savage disposition ; and were I to breed some Ottoman Emperor , or foun ...
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Seite 267 - Hand, and mourn'd his captive Queen. He springs to Vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like Thunder on the prostrate Ace. The Nymph exulting fills with Shouts the Sky, The Walls, the Woods, and long Canals reply.
Seite 274 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Seite 263 - Methinks already I your tears survey, Already hear the horrid things they say, Already see you a degraded toast, And all your honour in a whisper lost! How shall I then your helpless fame defend? 'Twill then be infamy to seem your friend! And shall this prize, th...
Seite 220 - Jerusalem with iniquity: the heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, "Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.
Seite 274 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void...
Seite 387 - 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.
Seite 263 - Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain; Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide: Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 'Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th...
Seite 361 - ... had all the speeches been printed without the very names of the persons, I believe one might have applied them with certainty to every speaker.
Seite 361 - whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine too these golden keys, immortal boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy, Of Horror that, and thrilling fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.
Seite 349 - ... adventures. There let him work for twelve books; at the end of which you may take him out ready prepared to conquer, or to marry; it being necessary that the conclusion of an epic poem be fortunate. To make an Episode. — Take any remaining adventure of your former collection, in which you could no way involve your hero; or any unfortunate accident that was too good to be thrown away; and it will be of use applied to any other person, who may be lost and evaporate in the course of the work,...