The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe, Band 1Longman, Brown and Company, 1847 |
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... whole of his attention and time , certain it is that these promises were never performed by him , at least not under his own name ; but in the year 1769 , whilst he was yet living , a Life of Pope was published by Owen Ruff- head , Esq ...
... whole of his attention and time , certain it is that these promises were never performed by him , at least not under his own name ; but in the year 1769 , whilst he was yet living , a Life of Pope was published by Owen Ruff- head , Esq ...
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... whole , this volume , although the most authentic account hitherto published , by no means fulfils the expectations excited , or the promises so ostentatiously held out . The life of Pope by Dr. Johnson , has been considered as one of ...
... whole , this volume , although the most authentic account hitherto published , by no means fulfils the expectations excited , or the promises so ostentatiously held out . The life of Pope by Dr. Johnson , has been considered as one of ...
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... whole better usage than a bad critic ; for a writer's endeavour , for the most part , is to please his readers , and he fails merely through the misfortune of an ill judgment ; but such a critic's is to put them out of humour ; a design ...
... whole better usage than a bad critic ; for a writer's endeavour , for the most part , is to please his readers , and he fails merely through the misfortune of an ill judgment ; but such a critic's is to put them out of humour ; a design ...
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... whole , he has reason to believe , that the differences which would have arisen between the author and himself on this head , would have been very trivial , if any ; and that the great variation in this respect will appear between the ...
... whole , he has reason to believe , that the differences which would have arisen between the author and himself on this head , would have been very trivial , if any ; and that the great variation in this respect will appear between the ...
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... whole copy extremely , and to a degree that I fear may displease you . I have every where marked in the margins the page and line , both in this and the other part ; but if you order me not to cross the lines , or would any way else ...
... whole copy extremely , and to a degree that I fear may displease you . I have every where marked in the margins the page and line , both in this and the other part ; but if you order me not to cross the lines , or would any way else ...
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Seite 135 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Seite 168 - For forms of government let fools contest: Whate'er is best administer'd is best: For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right; In faith and hope the world will disagree.
Seite 8 - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky...
Seite 159 - Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more ; Such, if there be, who loves so long, so well ; Let him our sad, our tender story tell ! The well-sung woes will sooth my pensive ghost ; He best can paint them who shall feel them most ! THE TEMPLE OF FAME.
Seite 441 - Horace, and, though lean, am short, Ammon's great son one shoulder had too high, Such Ovid's nose, and "Sir! you have an eye"— Go on, obliging creatures, make me see All that disgraced my betters, met in me. Say for my comfort, languishing in bed, "Just so immortal Maro held his head:" And when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago.
Seite 116 - Iliad, because he had looked over Mr. Tickell's, but could wish to have the benefit of his observations on my second, which I had then finished, and which Mr. Tickell had not touched upon.
Seite 7 - Bestia's from the throne. Born to no pride, inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious through his age.
Seite 135 - The next day, while I was heated with what I had heard, I wrote a letter to Mr. Addison, to let him know that I was not unacquainted with this behaviour of his; that if I was to speak severely of him in return for it, it should not be in such a dirty way; that I should rather tell him himself fairly of his faults, and allow his good qualities; and that it should be something in the following manner.
Seite 195 - Thy reliques, Rowe, to this fair urn we trust, And sacred, place by Dryden's awful dust; Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies, , To which thy tomb shall guide inquiring eyes. . '• ' Peace to thy gentle shade, and endless rest! Blest in thy genius, in thy love too blest ! One grateful woman to thy fame supplies What a whole thankless land to his denies.
Seite 74 - The numerous and violent claps of the whig party on the one side of the theatre, were echoed back by the tories on the other; while the author sweated behind the scenes with concern to find their applause proceeding more from the hand than the head.