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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... POPE's paffion for poetry was fo ftrong , that he often declared he began to write verfes earlier in life than he could call to memory ; and he says , in his Epiftle to Dr. Arbuthnot : " I lifp'd in numbers , for the numbers came . When ...
... POPE's paffion for poetry was fo ftrong , that he often declared he began to write verfes earlier in life than he could call to memory ; and he says , in his Epiftle to Dr. Arbuthnot : " I lifp'd in numbers , for the numbers came . When ...
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... POPE's difcernment , however , was too acute not to perceive the defects of fuch irregu- lar and defultory habits of ftudy . For though a retentive memory and correct judgment en- abled him to remedy many of those defects , they at the ...
... POPE's difcernment , however , was too acute not to perceive the defects of fuch irregu- lar and defultory habits of ftudy . For though a retentive memory and correct judgment en- abled him to remedy many of those defects , they at the ...
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... POPE did juftice to his memory , by the epitaph now extant among his works . This retirement in the foreft , could not be ... POPE's genius was confined , and that he was not mafter of a crea- tive and glowing imagination , the " Acer ...
... POPE did juftice to his memory , by the epitaph now extant among his works . This retirement in the foreft , could not be ... POPE's genius was confined , and that he was not mafter of a crea- tive and glowing imagination , the " Acer ...
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... POPE's writings , and from thence fhall attempt to afcertain the nature and force of his genius for as I fhould blush to mislead , fo I equally fcorn to prepoffefs the reader . The paftorals are the first pieces which fall under the ...
... POPE's writings , and from thence fhall attempt to afcertain the nature and force of his genius for as I fhould blush to mislead , fo I equally fcorn to prepoffefs the reader . The paftorals are the first pieces which fall under the ...
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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.