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... LATE RT HON . JOHN WILSON CROKER . WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY AND NOTES REV . WHITWELL ELWIN AND WILLIAM JOHN COURTHOPE . VOL . V. THE LIFE AND INDEX . WITH PORTRAIT . DIFFICILE EST PROPRIE COMMUNIA DICERE . ' LONDON : JOHN MURRAY ...
... LATE RT HON . JOHN WILSON CROKER . WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY AND NOTES REV . WHITWELL ELWIN AND WILLIAM JOHN COURTHOPE . VOL . V. THE LIFE AND INDEX . WITH PORTRAIT . DIFFICILE EST PROPRIE COMMUNIA DICERE . ' LONDON : JOHN MURRAY ...
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... merely personal point of view . Of these by far the most eminent was the late Mr. Dilke , to whom , more than any other man , biographers of Pope are indebted for to the materials enabling them to form a just idea of vi PREFACE .
... merely personal point of view . Of these by far the most eminent was the late Mr. Dilke , to whom , more than any other man , biographers of Pope are indebted for to the materials enabling them to form a just idea of vi PREFACE .
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... late Mr. Carruthers , which is admirable for its pains- taking research and the popularity of its style , but which suffers from two serious defects . The first edition appeared before the revelations of Mr. Dilke in the ' Athenæum ...
... late Mr. Carruthers , which is admirable for its pains- taking research and the popularity of its style , but which suffers from two serious defects . The first edition appeared before the revelations of Mr. Dilke in the ' Athenæum ...
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... late Professor Conington , in an essay which is a model of sound and masculine criticism , examined Pope's claims to that pre - eminence in ' correctness ' which had previously been disputed by De Quincey and Macaulay , while during the ...
... late Professor Conington , in an essay which is a model of sound and masculine criticism , examined Pope's claims to that pre - eminence in ' correctness ' which had previously been disputed by De Quincey and Macaulay , while during the ...
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... • APPENDIX III . A LETTER TO A NOBLE Lord . 423 APPENDIX IV . THE CHARACTER OF KATHERINE , LATE DUCHESS OF BUCKING- HAMSHIRE AND NORMANBY CORRIGENDA INDEX . 441 445 449 THE LIFE OF ALEXANDER POPE . LIFE OF POPE . xvi CONTENTS .
... • APPENDIX III . A LETTER TO A NOBLE Lord . 423 APPENDIX IV . THE CHARACTER OF KATHERINE , LATE DUCHESS OF BUCKING- HAMSHIRE AND NORMANBY CORRIGENDA INDEX . 441 445 449 THE LIFE OF ALEXANDER POPE . LIFE OF POPE . xvi CONTENTS .
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Seite 370 - Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect...
Seite 37 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day ! No more the rising sun shall gild the morn, Nor evening Cynthia fill her silver horn ; But lost, dissolved, in thy superior rays, One tide of glory, one unclouded blaze, O'erflow thy courts : the Light himself shall shine Revealed, and God's eternal day be thine...
Seite 25 - True wit is nature to advantage dressed, — What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Seite 364 - 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 49 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides; Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...
Seite 52 - For. wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas. and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity. thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy: judgment. on the contrary. lies quite on the other side. in separating carefully one from another ideas wherein can be found the least difference. thereby to avoid being misled by similitude and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Seite 183 - Consult the genius of the place in all; .That tells the waters or to rise or fall; Or helps the ambitious hill the heavens to scale Or scoops in circling theatres the vale : Calls in the country, catches opening glades, Joins willing woods, and varies shades from 'shades: Now breaks, or now directs, the intending lines ; Paints as you plant, and, as you work, designs.
Seite 359 - For Modes of Faith let graceless zealots fight; He can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Seite 370 - The principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men...
Seite 361 - Parts it may ravage, but preserves the whole. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but Passion is the gale ; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.