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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... ridicule was wanting to quicken their dis- grace ; and ridicule was here in its place , when the abuses had been already detected by sober reasoning ; and truth in no danger to suffer by the premature use of so powerful an instrument ...
... ridicule was wanting to quicken their dis- grace ; and ridicule was here in its place , when the abuses had been already detected by sober reasoning ; and truth in no danger to suffer by the premature use of so powerful an instrument ...
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... mysteri- ous a point , is advanced , very well deserved this stroke of ridicule . Warburton . His life was elaborately written by Peter Gassendus . " He chalked out all possible schemes for the improve- ment of 14 MEMOIRS OF.
... mysteri- ous a point , is advanced , very well deserved this stroke of ridicule . Warburton . His life was elaborately written by Peter Gassendus . " He chalked out all possible schemes for the improve- ment of 14 MEMOIRS OF.
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... ridicule the modern relater of this ridiculous practice , than the ancients , from whence he took it . As it is a sure instance of folly , when amongst the many excellent things which may be learned from antiquity , we find a modern ...
... ridicule the modern relater of this ridiculous practice , than the ancients , from whence he took it . As it is a sure instance of folly , when amongst the many excellent things which may be learned from antiquity , we find a modern ...
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... ridicule on those who assign the characters of different nations to their food and diet alone . Sir W. Temple has done this in more than one of his essays . Warton . ill - humours , should be kept from her breast 30 MEMOIRS OF.
... ridicule on those who assign the characters of different nations to their food and diet alone . Sir W. Temple has done this in more than one of his essays . Warton . ill - humours , should be kept from her breast 30 MEMOIRS OF.
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... ridicule on the supposed effects of ancient music ; which nobody has car- ried to a greater extreme than Isaac Vossius de Poemat . Cantû et Viribus Rhythmi , p . 47. who tells us , " That to build cities , sur- round them with walls ...
... ridicule on the supposed effects of ancient music ; which nobody has car- ried to a greater extreme than Isaac Vossius de Poemat . Cantû et Viribus Rhythmi , p . 47. who tells us , " That to build cities , sur- round them with walls ...
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Seite 296 - 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 291 - Form'da vast buckle for his widow's gown: Her infant grandame's whistle next it grew, The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew; Then in a bodkin grac'd her mother's hairs, Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears.) Boast not my fall (he cry'd) insulting foe ! Thou by some other shalt be laid as low.
Seite 296 - 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 230 - 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 303 - A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong; which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.
Seite 294 - Or roll the planets through the boundless sky. Some less refined, beneath the moon's pale light, Pursue the stars that shoot athwart the night, Or suck the mists in grosser air below, Or dip their pinions in the painted bow, Or brew fierce tempests on the wintry main, Or...
Seite 403 - 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 284 - 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 289 - E'en mighty Pam, that kings and queens o'erthrew, And mow'd down armies in the fights of...
Seite 469 - 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 need1.