The Works of Alexander Pope, Band 4J.F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... moral character , and who ( in his own case ) had two years before expressly disapproved of a per- sonal abuse of Mr. Dennis . The person , indeed , from whom Mr. Pope seems to have received this anecdote , about the time of his writing ...
... moral character , and who ( in his own case ) had two years before expressly disapproved of a per- sonal abuse of Mr. Dennis . The person , indeed , from whom Mr. Pope seems to have received this anecdote , about the time of his writing ...
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... moral good effects . One undesigned and accidental mischief attended its success : it was the parent of that most monstrous of all dra- matic absurdities , the Comic Opera . The friendship of two such excellent personages as the Duke ...
... moral good effects . One undesigned and accidental mischief attended its success : it was the parent of that most monstrous of all dra- matic absurdities , the Comic Opera . The friendship of two such excellent personages as the Duke ...
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... moral title , to pass for any man's but his . So the Essay on Human Life , the Essay on Reason , and many others of a worse tendency , were very liberally bestowed upon him . W.There are many admirable passages in Harte's Essay on Human ...
... moral title , to pass for any man's but his . So the Essay on Human Life , the Essay on Reason , and many others of a worse tendency , were very liberally bestowed upon him . W.There are many admirable passages in Harte's Essay on Human ...
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... moral character . And his superior excellence in poetry is owing to it . He soon discovered in what his force lay ; and he made the best of that advantage , by a sedulous cultivation of his pro- per talent . For having read Quintilian ...
... moral character . And his superior excellence in poetry is owing to it . He soon discovered in what his force lay ; and he made the best of that advantage , by a sedulous cultivation of his pro- per talent . For having read Quintilian ...
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... moral attributes of God . There is a re- markable passage in a letter from Bolingbroke to Swift , dated June , 1734 : " I am glad you approve of his Moral Essays . They will do more good than the sermons and writings of some , who had a ...
... moral attributes of God . There is a re- markable passage in a letter from Bolingbroke to Swift , dated June , 1734 : " I am glad you approve of his Moral Essays . They will do more good than the sermons and writings of some , who had a ...
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Seite 13 - twas when he knew no better. Dare you refuse him? Curll invites to dine, He'll write a. Journal, or he'll turn divine.' Bless me ! a packet - ' 'Tis a stranger sues, A Virgin Tragedy, an Orphan Muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage!' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Seite 32 - 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 32 - 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 408 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.
Seite 337 - Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year, most part, deform'd With dripping rains, or withered by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies, And fields without a flower, for warmer France With all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden fruitage, and her myrtle bowers.
Seite 37 - Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son; Got, while his soul did huddled notions try; And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy.
Seite 77 - Rolls o'er my grotto, and but sooths my sleep. There, my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place. There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul : And he, whose lightning pierc'd th...
Seite 45 - 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, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Seite 53 - 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 awhile one parent from the sky...
Seite 11 - And curses Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What Drop or Nostrum can this plague remove?