The Works of Alexander Pope, Band 4J.F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... thoughts of pub- lishing it , till it pleased some Persons of Rank and Fortune [ the Authors of Verses to the Imitator ... thought it the shortest way to put the last hand to this Epistle . If it have any thing pleasing , it will be that ...
... thoughts of pub- lishing it , till it pleased some Persons of Rank and Fortune [ the Authors of Verses to the Imitator ... thought it the shortest way to put the last hand to this Epistle . If it have any thing pleasing , it will be that ...
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... thought , And on the other how he never wrote : Who can believe , who view the bad and good , That the dull copyist better understood That spirit he pretends to imitate , Than heretofore the Greek he did translate ? Thine is just such ...
... thought , And on the other how he never wrote : Who can believe , who view the bad and good , That the dull copyist better understood That spirit he pretends to imitate , Than heretofore the Greek he did translate ? Thine is just such ...
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... thought and diction , that happy Horatian mixture of jest and earnest , that contribute to place Despreaux at the head of modern classics . I think it must be confessed , that he has caught the manner of Horace more successfully than ...
... thought and diction , that happy Horatian mixture of jest and earnest , that contribute to place Despreaux at the head of modern classics . I think it must be confessed , that he has caught the manner of Horace more successfully than ...
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... thought CICERONIANS carried the most celebrated Italians of this time . They abstained from reading the Scriptures for fear of spoiling their style : Car- dinal Bembo used to call the Epistles of St. Paul by the con- temptuous name of ...
... thought CICERONIANS carried the most celebrated Italians of this time . They abstained from reading the Scriptures for fear of spoiling their style : Car- dinal Bembo used to call the Epistles of St. Paul by the con- temptuous name of ...
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... thought this Critic the likeliest to reve- rence , the redoubtable PRISCIAN , he impiously boasted that he had arms even against Christ himself . But Codrus Urcæus went farther , and actually used those arms which the other only threat ...
... thought this Critic the likeliest to reve- rence , the redoubtable PRISCIAN , he impiously boasted that he had arms even against Christ himself . But Codrus Urcæus went farther , and actually used those arms which the other only threat ...
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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?