Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope, Esq;: Faithfully Collected from Authentic Authors, Original Manuscripts, and the Testimonies of Many Persons of Credit and Honour: with Critical Observations. Adorned with the Heads of Divers Illustrious Persons, Treated of in These Memoirs, Curiously Engrav'd by the Best Hands. In Two Volumes, Band 2 |
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... and Characters of Men , which begins thus : Yes , you defpife the Man to Books confin'd , Who from his Study rails at human Kind ; Tho ' what he learns he speaks , and may advance Some gen❜ral Maxims , or be right by Chance .
... and Characters of Men , which begins thus : Yes , you defpife the Man to Books confin'd , Who from his Study rails at human Kind ; Tho ' what he learns he speaks , and may advance Some gen❜ral Maxims , or be right by Chance .
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... great in a Poem of this Kind ) of making Ufe of double Rhymes in more Places than one ; to be fure it gives a greater Air of Freedom , but then it takes from the Exactnefs , the Neatnefs he should have appear'd in before that Lady .
... great in a Poem of this Kind ) of making Ufe of double Rhymes in more Places than one ; to be fure it gives a greater Air of Freedom , but then it takes from the Exactnefs , the Neatnefs he should have appear'd in before that Lady .
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Tis a Kind of Profanation of Things facred , to treat fo folemn a Matter as a generous voluntary Suffering , with Compliments on Heroick Gallantries . Such a Mind as your's has no Need of being spirited up into Honour , or , like a weak ...
Tis a Kind of Profanation of Things facred , to treat fo folemn a Matter as a generous voluntary Suffering , with Compliments on Heroick Gallantries . Such a Mind as your's has no Need of being spirited up into Honour , or , like a weak ...
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... had made him fhow himself kind to him ; had he had no Value for her , the Merit , the great Merit of that Gentleman , had extorted the fame Love , Friendship , and Affection , he now bore him ; he lov'd many , but thefe above all .
... had made him fhow himself kind to him ; had he had no Value for her , the Merit , the great Merit of that Gentleman , had extorted the fame Love , Friendship , and Affection , he now bore him ; he lov'd many , but thefe above all .
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... is fo contented a Dunce , that he would not have even Mr. Pope's merited Fame attended with the Solicitude he has been at to mantain it , allowing at the fame Time the Dunciad to be a better Poem , in its Kind , than ever was writ .
... is fo contented a Dunce , that he would not have even Mr. Pope's merited Fame attended with the Solicitude he has been at to mantain it , allowing at the fame Time the Dunciad to be a better Poem , in its Kind , than ever was writ .
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Seite 319 - 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...
Seite 69 - So proud, so grand ; of that stupendous air, Soft and agreeable come never there. Greatness, with Timon, dwells in such a draught As brings all Brobdignag before your thought. To compass this, his building is a town, His pond an ocean, his parterre a down...
Seite 183 - 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...
Seite 373 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge Thy foe.
Seite 369 - When statesmen, heroes, kings, in dust repose Whose sons shall blush their fathers were thy foes, Shall then this verse to future age pretend Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend,— That urg'd by thee, I turn'd the tuneful art From sounds to things, from fancy to the heart...
Seite 121 - Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child ; With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age ; Above temptation, in a low estate ; And uncorrupted...
Seite 311 - All discord, harmony not understood ; All partial evil, universal good : And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, WHATEVER is, is RIGHT.
Seite 215 - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
Seite 79 - A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross ? Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desp'rate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain.
Seite 270 - God, her death was as easy as her life was innocent ; and as it cost her not a groan, or even a sigh, there is yet upon her countenance such an expression of tranquillity, nay, almost of pleasure, that it is even amiable to behold it.