The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Band 5B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly [and others], 1797 - 3650 Seiten |
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... ( first edit . faid to be printed for A. Dodd ) , in the 10th page , declared Gildon to be author of that libel ; though in the subsequent editions of his Key he left out this affertion , and affirmed ( in the Curliad , p . 4. and 8 ...
... ( first edit . faid to be printed for A. Dodd ) , in the 10th page , declared Gildon to be author of that libel ; though in the subsequent editions of his Key he left out this affertion , and affirmed ( in the Curliad , p . 4. and 8 ...
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... the preface to the Iliad , printed fome time before his death , and by his own letters y Vid . pref . to Mr. Tickel's translation of the first book of the Iliad , 4to . letters of October 26 , and November 2 , 1713 28 TESTIMONIES.
... the preface to the Iliad , printed fome time before his death , and by his own letters y Vid . pref . to Mr. Tickel's translation of the first book of the Iliad , 4to . letters of October 26 , and November 2 , 1713 28 TESTIMONIES.
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... first plagiaries that pretend to make a reputation by stealing from a man's works in his own life - time , and out of a public print . " Let us join to this what is written by the author of the Rival Modes , the faid Mr. James Moore ...
... first plagiaries that pretend to make a reputation by stealing from a man's works in his own life - time , and out of a public print . " Let us join to this what is written by the author of the Rival Modes , the faid Mr. James Moore ...
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... first class , the most noble JOHN Duke of BUCKINGHAM fums up his character in these lines ; " And yet fo wond'rous , fo fublime a thing , As the great Iliad , scarce could make me fing ; Unless I justly could at once commend A good ...
... first class , the most noble JOHN Duke of BUCKINGHAM fums up his character in these lines ; " And yet fo wond'rous , fo fublime a thing , As the great Iliad , scarce could make me fing ; Unless I justly could at once commend A good ...
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... First again commencing with the high voiced and never enough quoted MR . JOHN DENNIS ; who , in his Reflections on the Effay on Criticism , thus defcribeth him : " A little affected hypocrite , who has nothing in his mouth but candour ...
... First again commencing with the high voiced and never enough quoted MR . JOHN DENNIS ; who , in his Reflections on the Effay on Criticism , thus defcribeth him : " A little affected hypocrite , who has nothing in his mouth but candour ...
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Seite 96 - Round him much embryo, much abortion lay, Much future ode, and abdicated play...
Seite 288 - Night primaeval and of Chaos old ! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus
Seite 216 - This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixtythree days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time ; at Bath and Bristol fifty, &c.
Seite 245 - When Reason doubtful, like the Samian letter, Points him two ways, the narrower is the better. Plac'd at the door of Learning, youth to guide, We never suffer it to stand too wide. To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence...
Seite 373 - Till one wide conflagration swallows all. 240 Thence a new world, to nature's laws unknown, Breaks out refulgent, with a heaven its own : Another Cynthia her new journey runs, And other planets circle other suns. The forests dance, the rivers upward rise, Whales sport in woods, and dolphins in the skies ; And last, to give the whole creation grace, Lo ! one vast egg produces human race.
Seite 22 - Poetry, he will find but few precepts in it which he may not meet with in Aristotle, and which were not commonly known by all the poets of the Augustan age. His way of expressing and applying them, not his invention of them, is what we are chiefly to admire.
Seite 339 - How Tragedy and Comedy embrace; How Farce and Epic get a jumbled race; How Time himself stands still at her command, Realms shift their place, and Ocean turns to land.
Seite 229 - The moon-struck prophet felt the madding hour : Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out order, and extinguish light, Of dull and venal a new world to mould, And bring Saturnian days of lead and gold.
Seite 231 - Too mad for mere material chains to bind : Now to pure space lifts her ecstatic stare, Now running round the circle, finds it square.
Seite 292 - Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.