Pope. Satires and Epistles, ed. by M. Pattison1872 |
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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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... writes to Swift in 1723 , ' What Virgil had to do with Mævius that he should wear him on his sleeve to all eternity , I do not know . ' That poetry which is to be permanent must deal with permanent themes . Satirical , is not any more ...
... writes to Swift in 1723 , ' What Virgil had to do with Mævius that he should wear him on his sleeve to all eternity , I do not know . ' That poetry which is to be permanent must deal with permanent themes . Satirical , is not any more ...
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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.