Satires and EpistlesClarendon Press, 1881 - 164 Seiten |
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... writing may need some such cover . Boileau , before Pope , had felt himself compelled to publish an apology for being a professed satirist . The Discours sur la Satire ( 1668 ) rests his defence on classical precedent . Because Persius ...
... writing may need some such cover . Boileau , before Pope , had felt himself compelled to publish an apology for being a professed satirist . The Discours sur la Satire ( 1668 ) rests his defence on classical precedent . Because Persius ...
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... writer who , like Pope , treats social and personal themes must do so in the tone of the society for which he writes . All poetry , in the time of Pope , was written not for the country , but for the Town . Even the Essay on Man ...
... writer who , like Pope , treats social and personal themes must do so in the tone of the society for which he writes . All poetry , in the time of Pope , was written not for the country , but for the Town . Even the Essay on Man ...
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... writes ( D. to Pope , 9 July , 1720 ) , ' The London language and conversation is , I find , quite changed since I left it only three months ago . I hope this will calm all party rage , and introduce more humanity than has of late ...
... writes ( D. to Pope , 9 July , 1720 ) , ' The London language and conversation is , I find , quite changed since I left it only three months ago . I hope this will calm all party rage , and introduce more humanity than has of late ...
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... writes as if virtue had departed from the earth , or was confined to the circle of friends - to Bolingbroke , Marchmont , Lyttelton and himself . ( See March- mont Papers , 2. 219. ) In such a position the best judgment becomes clouded ...
... writes as if virtue had departed from the earth , or was confined to the circle of friends - to Bolingbroke , Marchmont , Lyttelton and himself . ( See March- mont Papers , 2. 219. ) In such a position the best judgment becomes clouded ...
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... indeed rouse the wrath of fashionable authors , and of grandees . He refused homage alike to false taste in writing , and to the noble patrons of that false 1 taste . But he did it in tones of manly 16 INTRODUCTORY .
... indeed rouse the wrath of fashionable authors , and of grandees . He refused homage alike to false taste in writing , and to the noble patrons of that false 1 taste . But he did it in tones of manly 16 INTRODUCTORY .
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Seite 30 - 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 125 - With lust and violence the house of God? In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury, and outrage: And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Seite 24 - They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Seite 28 - Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flow'ry theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream.
Seite 146 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he ' had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech.
Seite 25 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse." If I dislike it, " Furies, death, and rage! " If I approve,
Seite 27 - One flatt'rer's worse than all. Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent: Alas ! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates in high heroic prose, And ridicules beyond a hundred foes; One from all Grub Street will my fame defend, And, more abusive, calls himself my friend. This prints my letters, that expects a bribe, And others roar aloud, 'Subscribe, subscribe.
Seite 25 - And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish, and an aching head; And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, — 'Keep your piece nine years.
Seite 146 - whispers through the trees": If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with "sleep": Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Seite 33 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.