The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements; together with all his notes: pr. verbatim from the octavo ed. of mr. Warburton, Volume 51754 |
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Pagina ix
... equally embarked ; they cannot certainly , after they have been content to print themselves his enemies , com- plain of being put into the number of them . Others , I am told , pretend to have been TO THE PUBLISHER . ix.
... equally embarked ; they cannot certainly , after they have been content to print themselves his enemies , com- plain of being put into the number of them . Others , I am told , pretend to have been TO THE PUBLISHER . ix.
Pagina x
... equally fubfifting , for his works and theirs are the very fame that they were . + One , therefore , of their affertions I believe may be true , " That he has a contempt for their writ- ings . " And there is another , which would pro ...
... equally fubfifting , for his works and theirs are the very fame that they were . + One , therefore , of their affertions I believe may be true , " That he has a contempt for their writ- ings . " And there is another , which would pro ...
Pagina xii
... equally abused by the ignorant pretenders to Poetry of their times ; of which not the least memory will remain but in their own Writings , and in the Notes made upon them . What BOILEAU has done in almost all his Poems , our author has ...
... equally abused by the ignorant pretenders to Poetry of their times ; of which not the least memory will remain but in their own Writings , and in the Notes made upon them . What BOILEAU has done in almost all his Poems , our author has ...
Pagina l
... equally been supposed in him inherent . Surely a moft rare and fingular character ! Of which let the reader make what he can . Doubtless moft Commentators would hence take occafion to turn all to their Author's advan- tage , and from ...
... equally been supposed in him inherent . Surely a moft rare and fingular character ! Of which let the reader make what he can . Doubtless moft Commentators would hence take occafion to turn all to their Author's advan- tage , and from ...
Pagina li
... equally between various opinions , and to chufe whether thou wilt incline to the Teftimonies of Authors a- vowed , or of Authors concealed ; of thofe who knew him , or of those who knew him not . P. CA BO ALLUMEA E 2 DILIAN MARTINUS ...
... equally between various opinions , and to chufe whether thou wilt incline to the Teftimonies of Authors a- vowed , or of Authors concealed ; of thofe who knew him , or of those who knew him not . P. CA BO ALLUMEA E 2 DILIAN MARTINUS ...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions ..., Volume 5 Alexander Pope Volledige weergave - 1795 |
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Pagina xxv - ... mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights. If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry, he will find but few precepts in it which...
Pagina xxiv - And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so very well enlarged upon in the preface to his works, that wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn.
Pagina 221 - Thence a new world to Nature's laws unknown, Breaks out refulgent, with a heav'n its own : Another Cynthia her new journey runs, And other planets circle other suns. The forests dance, the rivers upward rise 245 Whales sport in woods, and dolphins in the skies ; And last, to give the whole creation grace, Lo ! one vast egg produces human race. Joy fills his soul, joy innocent of thought ; What pow'r, he cries, what pow'r these wonders wrought?
Pagina 171 - Ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood.
Pagina 233 - Polly, till then obscure, became all at once the favourite of the town ; her pictures were engraved, and sold in great numbers ; her life written, books of letters and verses to her published, and pamphlets made even of her sayings and jests.
Pagina 95 - How Time himself stands still at her command, Realms shift their place, and Ocean turns to land. Here gay Description...
Pagina 103 - Should Dennis publish, you had stabb'd your brother, Lampoon'd your Monarch, or debauch'd your mother ; Say, what revenge on Dennis can be had ? Too dull for laughter, for reply too mad : On one so poor you cannot take the law ; On one so old your sword you scorn to draw ; Uncag'd then let the harmless monster rage, Secure in dulness, madness, want, and age.
Pagina 114 - And pond'rous slugs cut swiftly through the sky; As clocks to weight their nimble motion owe, The wheels above urg'd by the load below; Me Emptiness and Dulness could inspire, And were my elasticity and fire. Some díEnion stole my pen (forgive th...
Pagina xxiv - The Art of Criticism, which was published some months since, and is a master-piece in its kind. The observations follow one another like those in Horace's Art of Poetry, without that methodical regularity which would have been requisite in a prose author.
Pagina 233 - 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.