The Works of Alexander Pope, Band 6Henry Lintot, 1737 |
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... once expos'd and plunder'd . As an Author , you are depriv'd of that Power which above all others conftitutes a good one , the power of rejecting , and the right of judging for your felf , what pieces it may be moft ufe- ful ...
... once expos'd and plunder'd . As an Author , you are depriv'd of that Power which above all others conftitutes a good one , the power of rejecting , and the right of judging for your felf , what pieces it may be moft ufe- ful ...
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... once to wave all your compliments , and to collect only this in general from them , that your defign is to encourage me . But I feparate from all the reft that paragraph or two , in which you make me fo warm an offer of your Friendship ...
... once to wave all your compliments , and to collect only this in general from them , that your defign is to encourage me . But I feparate from all the reft that paragraph or two , in which you make me fo warm an offer of your Friendship ...
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... those incorrigible things Poets are once irre- coverably be mus'd , the best way both to quiet them , and fecure your felf from the effects of their frenzy , is to feed their vanity , ( which indeed for is Mr. WY CHERLEY . 11.
... those incorrigible things Poets are once irre- coverably be mus'd , the best way both to quiet them , and fecure your felf from the effects of their frenzy , is to feed their vanity , ( which indeed for is Mr. WY CHERLEY . 11.
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... once a poet and a physician . Now , Sir , as to my impudent invitation of you to the town , your good nature was the first cause of my confident request ; but excuse me , I muft ( I fee ) fay no more upon this fubject , fince I find you ...
... once a poet and a physician . Now , Sir , as to my impudent invitation of you to the town , your good nature was the first cause of my confident request ; but excuse me , I muft ( I fee ) fay no more upon this fubject , fince I find you ...
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... once pleas'd and inftructed me ; fo that I affure you , you can no more write too much to your abfent friends , than speak too much to the present . This is a truth that all men own who have either feen your writings , or heard your ...
... once pleas'd and inftructed me ; fo that I affure you , you can no more write too much to your abfent friends , than speak too much to the present . This is a truth that all men own who have either feen your writings , or heard your ...
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Seite 204 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
Seite 47 - People seek for what they call wit, on all subjects, and in all places ; not considering that nature loves truth so well, that it hardly ever admits of flourishing : Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty ; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve.
Seite 228 - Lordship may cause me to live agreeably in the town, or contentedly in the country, which is really all the difference I set between an easy fortune and a small one.
Seite 53 - It is not enough that nothing offends the Ear, but a good Poet will adapt the very Sounds, as well as Words, to the things he treats of. So that there is (if one may express it so) a Style of Sound. As in describing a gliding Stream, the Numbers shou'd run easy and flowing; in describing a rough Torrent or Deluge, sonorous and swelling, and so of the rest.
Seite 206 - I have an ambition of having it known that you are my friend, I shall be very proud of showing it by this, or any other instance. I question not but your Translation will enrich our tongue, and do honour to our country...
Seite 195 - Plutarch just now told me, that 'tis in human life as in a game at tables, where a man may wish for the highest cast, but, if his chance be otherwise, he is e'en to play it as well as he can, and to make the best of it.
Seite 73 - ... shade. In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away. In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day. Sound sleep by night; study and ease, Together mixt; sweet recreation: And innocence, which most does please With meditation.
Seite 141 - I paced on slowly, without company, or any interruption to the range of my thoughts. About a mile before I reached Oxford, all the bells...
Seite 197 - The memory of man, (as it is elegantly exprefs'd in the Book of Wifdom) pafleth away as the remembrance of a gueft that tarrieth but one day. There are reafons enough, in the fourth chapter of the fame . book, to make any young man contented with the profpect of death.
Seite 233 - Great Turk in poetry, who can never bear a brother on the throne ; and has his mutes too, a set of nodders, winkers, and whisperers, whose business is to strangle all other offsprings of wit in their birth.