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 1J. Rivington, 1824 |
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... honour to his age and country , and that attack sanctioned under the sacred duty of an editor , would be suffer- ed to pass without animadversion . Accord- ingly the insults on departed genius have been felt by the living , and the ...
... honour to his age and country , and that attack sanctioned under the sacred duty of an editor , would be suffer- ed to pass without animadversion . Accord- ingly the insults on departed genius have been felt by the living , and the ...
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... honour's cause , Whilst yet in Britain honour had applause ) Each parent sprung " - And in a note on the same Epistle we are informed that " Mr. Pope's father was of a gentleman's fa- mily in Oxfordshire , the head of which was the Earl ...
... honour's cause , Whilst yet in Britain honour had applause ) Each parent sprung " - And in a note on the same Epistle we are informed that " Mr. Pope's father was of a gentleman's fa- mily in Oxfordshire , the head of which was the Earl ...
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... honour , in one instance , to re- semble you , for he was a younger brother . He did not think it indeed a happiness to bury his elder brother , though he had one who wanted some of those good qualities which yours pos- sessed ...
... honour , in one instance , to re- semble you , for he was a younger brother . He did not think it indeed a happiness to bury his elder brother , though he had one who wanted some of those good qualities which yours pos- sessed ...
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... honour both to her talents and her heart . * Alluding to what Lord Hervey has said of himself in another attack upon Pope , intitled , An Epistle to a Doctor of Divinity . + Letter to a Noble Lord . In the deed by which his estate at ...
... honour both to her talents and her heart . * Alluding to what Lord Hervey has said of himself in another attack upon Pope , intitled , An Epistle to a Doctor of Divinity . + Letter to a Noble Lord . In the deed by which his estate at ...
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... honoured with his intimacy , had seen se- veral pieces of a still earlier date . He may there- fore justly be enumerated amongst those , in whom the display of early powers has been the indication of superior genius , as observable in ...
... honoured with his intimacy , had seen se- veral pieces of a still earlier date . He may there- fore justly be enumerated amongst those , in whom the display of early powers has been the indication of superior genius , as observable in ...
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Seite 170 - 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 104 - He who still wanting, tho' he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left; And he who now to sense, now nonsense, leaning, Means not, but blunders round about a meaning; And he whose...
Seite 213 - For forms of government let fools contest: Whate'er is best administer'd is best: For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right; In faith and hope the world will disagree.
Seite 171 - 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 reserved to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading even fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause...
Seite 10 - 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 222 - Nymph of the Grot, these sacred Springs I keep, And to the Murmur of these Waters sleep ; Ah spare my slumbers, gently tread the cave ! And drink in silence, or in silence lave ! You'll think I have been very Poetical in this Description, but it is pretty near the Truth.
Seite 222 - It is finished with shells, interspersed with pieces of looking-glass in angular forms, and in the ceiling is a star of the same material, at which, when a lamp (of an orbicular figure of thin alabaster) is hung in the middle, a thousand pointed rays glitter and are reflected over the place.
Seite 171 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — 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 416 - As fruits ungrateful to the planter's care, On savage stocks inserted, learn to bear, The surest virtues thus from passions shoot. Wild nature's vigour working at the root. What crops of wit and honesty appear From spleen, from obstinacy, hate, or fear ! See anger zeal and fortitude supply ; E'en avarice prudence, sloth philosophy ; Lust, through some certain strainers well refin'd, Is gentle love, and charms all womankind; Envy, to which th...
Seite 170 - The next day, while I was heated with what I had heard, I wrote a letter to Mr. Addison, to let him know that I was not unacquainted with this behaviour of his; that if I was to speak severely of him in return for it, it should not be in such a dirty way; that I should rather tell him himself fairly of his faults, and allow his good qualities; and that it should be something in the following manner.