The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Compiled from Original Manuscripts; with a Critical Essay on His Writings and GeniusC. Bathurst, H. Woodfall, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, W. Johnston, B. White, T. Caslon, T. Longman, B. Law, Johnson and Payne, S. Bladon, T. Cadell, and the executors of A. Millar., 1769 - 578 Seiten |
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... examined in the courfe of the following fheets ; and as an admiration of his genius fhall not pervert the juftice of criticism , fo neither B 4 fhall shall a regard for his virtues , be an inducement ALEXANDER POPE , Esq . 7.
... examined in the courfe of the following fheets ; and as an admiration of his genius fhall not pervert the juftice of criticism , fo neither B 4 fhall shall a regard for his virtues , be an inducement ALEXANDER POPE , Esq . 7.
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... shall a regard for his virtues , be an inducement to conceal his failings . The life of a ftudious man can confift of little else than a character of himself , and of his writings ; and the hiftory of the author and of the man are fo ...
... shall a regard for his virtues , be an inducement to conceal his failings . The life of a ftudious man can confift of little else than a character of himself , and of his writings ; and the hiftory of the author and of the man are fo ...
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... shall freely animadvert on the errors and inaccura- cies of the critic , and as candidly admit the juftice of his cenfure , and the propriety of his corrections . In this critique , however , I fhall purfue a different method from the ...
... shall freely animadvert on the errors and inaccura- cies of the critic , and as candidly admit the juftice of his cenfure , and the propriety of his corrections . In this critique , however , I fhall purfue a different method from the ...
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... Shall life'ning in mid - air fufpend their wings . " The image of the birds liftening with their wings fufpended in mid - air , is ftriking ; and I truft , new t . " Our critic having thus fet out with denying our poet the merit of ...
... Shall life'ning in mid - air fufpend their wings . " The image of the birds liftening with their wings fufpended in mid - air , is ftriking ; and I truft , new t . " Our critic having thus fet out with denying our poet the merit of ...
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... Meffiah , where our poet fhould have faid , The fwain -—— " Shall START amidst the thirsty wild to hear New falls of water murmuring in his ear . " D 4 fu- fuperior to the Pollio : and indeed , if Mr. ALEXANDER POPE , Esq . 39.
... Meffiah , where our poet fhould have faid , The fwain -—— " Shall START amidst the thirsty wild to hear New falls of water murmuring in his ear . " D 4 fu- fuperior to the Pollio : and indeed , if Mr. ALEXANDER POPE , Esq . 39.
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Seite 265 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Seite 231 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!
Seite 123 - In some lone isle, or distant northern land; Where the gilt chariot never marks the way, Where none learn ombre, none e'er taste bohea!
Seite 231 - The proper study of mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err...
Seite 192 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Seite 124 - Who would not scorn what Housewife's Cares produce, Or who would learn one earthly Thing of Use ? To patch, nay ogle, might become a Saint, Nor could it sure be such a Sin to paint. But since, alas ! frail Beauty must decay...
Seite 163 - Come, Abelard ! for what hast thou to dread ? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature stands check'd ; Religion disapproves ; Ev'n thou art cold — yet Eloisa loves. 260 Ah hopeless, lasting flames ! like those that burn To light the dead, and warm th
Seite 381 - But chief her shrine where naked Venus keeps, And Cupids ride the Lion of the Deeps; Where, eas'd of Fleets, the Adriatic main Wafts the smooth Eunuch and enamour'd swain.
Seite 80 - She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For, as in bodies, thus in souls we find, What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Seite 239 - Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod; The state of Nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man.