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Should the whole frame of Nature round him break In ruin and confusion hurld ,
She unconcern ' d would hear the mighty crack , And stand secure amidst a
falling world . ” On which lines he observes , in the Bathos , “ Sometimes a single
word ...
Should the whole frame of Nature round him break In ruin and confusion hurld ,
She unconcern ' d would hear the mighty crack , And stand secure amidst a
falling world . ” On which lines he observes , in the Bathos , “ Sometimes a single
word ...
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... so that to employ it only in description , is like children ' s delighting in a prism
for the sake of its gaudy colours ; which , when frugally managed and artfully
disposed , might be made to unfold and illustrate the noblest objects in nature .
... so that to employ it only in description , is like children ' s delighting in a prism
for the sake of its gaudy colours ; which , when frugally managed and artfully
disposed , might be made to unfold and illustrate the noblest objects in nature .
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His sons Joseph and Salmasius had indeed such endowments of nature and art ,
as might have raised modern learning to a rivalship with the ancient . Yet how did
they and their adversaries tear and worry one another ! The choicest of ...
His sons Joseph and Salmasius had indeed such endowments of nature and art ,
as might have raised modern learning to a rivalship with the ancient . Yet how did
they and their adversaries tear and worry one another ! The choicest of ...
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... than Pope ' s nature would suffer him to treat any one . But the reason is plain .
Swift was Addison ' s rival only in politics : Pope was his rival in poetry ; an
opposition less tolerable , as more personal . However , Addison ' s social talents
, in ...
... than Pope ' s nature would suffer him to treat any one . But the reason is plain .
Swift was Addison ' s rival only in politics : Pope was his rival in poetry ; an
opposition less tolerable , as more personal . However , Addison ' s social talents
, in ...
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... about , Who writes a Libel , or who copies out : 290 That Fop , whose pride
affects a patron ' s name , Yet absent , wounds an author ' s honest fame : NOTES
. a perfect intimacy with his writings , but great skill in the nature of composition .
... about , Who writes a Libel , or who copies out : 290 That Fop , whose pride
affects a patron ' s name , Yet absent , wounds an author ' s honest fame : NOTES
. a perfect intimacy with his writings , but great skill in the nature of composition .
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Seite 26 - 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 26 - 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 388 - 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 321 - Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year, most part, deform'd With dripping rains, or withered by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies, And fields without a flower, for warmer France With all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden fruitage, and her myrtle bowers.
Seite 69 - Rolls o'er my grotto, and but sooths my sleep. There, my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place. There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul : And he, whose lightning pierc'd th...
Seite 31 - Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son ; Got, while his soul did huddled notions try ; And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy.
Seite 39 - 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 47 - 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 28 - 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?