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,C. and J. Rivington; T. Cadell; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green; J. Cuthell; J. Nunn; ... [and 25 others in London]; and Deighton and Sons, Cambridge; and A. Black, and J. Fairbairn, Edinburgh., 1824 |
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... he had infinitely more learning than Pope or Swift , and as much wit and humour as either of them . He was an ex- cellent mathematician and physician , of which his letter on the Usefulness What walls can guard me , or what shades can.
... he had infinitely more learning than Pope or Swift , and as much wit and humour as either of them . He was an ex- cellent mathematician and physician , of which his letter on the Usefulness What walls can guard me , or what shades can.
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... humour . It is known that he gave numberless hints to Swift , and Pope , and Gay , of some of the most striking parts of their works . He was so neglectful of his writings that his children tore his manuscripts and made paper - kites of ...
... humour . It is known that he gave numberless hints to Swift , and Pope , and Gay , of some of the most striking parts of their works . He was so neglectful of his writings that his children tore his manuscripts and made paper - kites of ...
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... humour in making the prying and watchful eyes of the minister , instead of the barber , first discover the ass's ears ; and the word perks has particular force and emphasis . Sir Robert Walpole and Queen Caroline were here pointed at ...
... humour in making the prying and watchful eyes of the minister , instead of the barber , first discover the ass's ears ; and the word perks has particular force and emphasis . Sir Robert Walpole and Queen Caroline were here pointed at ...
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... humour , is true in fact : " I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or fair man , of a mild or cho- leric disposition , married or a bachelor . " What passages ...
... humour , is true in fact : " I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or fair man , of a mild or cho- leric disposition , married or a bachelor . " What passages ...
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... humour with the court . He has made very free with his gracious majesty , in ' the Epistle to Augustus . But he had lost his favourite bill ; even my Lord Harvey had carried a point against him ; and while he is angry , he will never be ...
... humour with the court . He has made very free with his gracious majesty , in ' the Epistle to Augustus . But he had lost his favourite bill ; even my Lord Harvey had carried a point against him ; and while he is angry , he will never be ...
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Seite 177 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Seite 41 - A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross?
Seite 40 - tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Seite 36 - 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 a while one parent from the sky!
Seite 75 - Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do:) Maintain a Poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please : Above a Patron, tho...
Seite 464 - So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along : But such is thy avarice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must have starved, and the poet have died. VOL. V. K THE BALANCE OF EUROPE. Now Europe balanced, neither side prevails ; For nothing's left in either of the scales.
Seite 81 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings...
Seite 63 - 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, Alike...
Seite 46 - He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew: Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain, The creature's at his dirty work again...
Seite 388 - Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me : Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon ! left for Truth's defence, Sole dread of folly, vice, and insolence ! To all but Heaven-directed hands denied, The Muse may give thee, but the gods must guide.