Pope. Satires and Epistles, ed. by M. Pattison1872 |
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... truth and good feeling . But it is not only in his individual portraits that he is carried beyond the limits of civility , his whole satire is pitched in a key which good taste is compelled to disown . It is trenchant and direct . It ...
... truth and good feeling . But it is not only in his individual portraits that he is carried beyond the limits of civility , his whole satire is pitched in a key which good taste is compelled to disown . It is trenchant and direct . It ...
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... truth which cannot be denied to it . It is unjust , but not altogether untrue . Though all who do not belong to the party are his foes , yet he is ' too discreet to run a - muck and tilt at all he meets . ' His fire is not that of ...
... truth which cannot be denied to it . It is unjust , but not altogether untrue . Though all who do not belong to the party are his foes , yet he is ' too discreet to run a - muck and tilt at all he meets . ' His fire is not that of ...
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... truth is the real truth . This even applies to fictitious character as well as to copies of actual life . Porson says ( Rogers ' Recollections , p . 122 ) , ' In drawing a villain we should always furnish him with something that may ...
... truth is the real truth . This even applies to fictitious character as well as to copies of actual life . Porson says ( Rogers ' Recollections , p . 122 ) , ' In drawing a villain we should always furnish him with something that may ...
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... truth , or fulness and development of detail . But they stand next to those Memoirs as a lively picture of a section of social life between 1730-40 . Lord Hervey presents us with the Court interior , Pope with the literary and ...
... truth , or fulness and development of detail . But they stand next to those Memoirs as a lively picture of a section of social life between 1730-40 . Lord Hervey presents us with the Court interior , Pope with the literary and ...
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... truth and the sentiment ; and if anything offensive , it will be only to those I am least sorry to offend , the vicious or the ungenerous . Many will know their own pictures in it , there being not a circumstance but what is true ; but ...
... truth and the sentiment ; and if anything offensive , it will be only to those I am least sorry to offend , the vicious or the ungenerous . Many will know their own pictures in it , there being not a circumstance but what is true ; but ...
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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 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.
Seite 30 - Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? What though my name stood rubric on the walls Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Seite 52 - Who counsels best ? who whispers, ' Be but great, With praise or infamy leave that to fate; Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace ; If not, by any means get wealth and place.
Seite 145 - 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 27 - 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. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own?
Seite 144 - 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 29 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Seite 28 - Commas and points they set exactly right, And 'twere a sin to rob them of their mite.
Seite 64 - Who now reads Cowley ? if he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pointed wit ; Forgot his epic, nay Pindaric art, But still I love the language of his heart.