The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Compiled from Original Manuscripts; with a Critical Essay on His Writings and GeniusC. Bathurst, H. Woodfall, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, W. Johnston, B. White, T. Caslon, T. Longman, B. Law, Johnson and Payne, S. Bladon, T. Cadell, and the executors of A. Millar., 1769 - 578 pagina's |
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Pagina 12
... verses , on a review of them , better than he expected , he gave it fome correction in his riper years , and put it into the form wherein it is now printed in the into 12 THE LIFE OF Homer, and was fo fmitten with the fubject, ...
... verses , on a review of them , better than he expected , he gave it fome correction in his riper years , and put it into the form wherein it is now printed in the into 12 THE LIFE OF Homer, and was fo fmitten with the fubject, ...
Pagina 15
... verses , and , though no poet , was nevertheless fo very dif- ficult to be pleased , that he would make his fon correct them again and again . When they were to his mind , he took pleasure in perusing them , and would fay , " These are ...
... verses , and , though no poet , was nevertheless fo very dif- ficult to be pleased , that he would make his fon correct them again and again . When they were to his mind , he took pleasure in perusing them , and would fay , " These are ...
Pagina 25
... Rhodes , driven from his crown by Deucalion , father of Minos . In this epic piece , Alcander difplayed all the a thousand verses each . Into this piece , he 9 ALEXANDER POPE , ESQ . 25 In his latter days he told a particular friend ...
... Rhodes , driven from his crown by Deucalion , father of Minos . In this epic piece , Alcander difplayed all the a thousand verses each . Into this piece , he 9 ALEXANDER POPE , ESQ . 25 In his latter days he told a particular friend ...
Pagina 26
... verses each . Into this piece , he con- feffed , though with a ridicule on the attempt , that he had thrown all his learning , as Milton has done with too much profufion , in his Paradife Loft . This Alcander was chiefly an imitative ...
... verses each . Into this piece , he con- feffed , though with a ridicule on the attempt , that he had thrown all his learning , as Milton has done with too much profufion , in his Paradife Loft . This Alcander was chiefly an imitative ...
Pagina 38
... verse . Now nothing can be more fimple and natural , and at the fame time more plaintive and pathetic , than the image of Mr. POPE ; nor can any thing be expreffed with greater beauty , and harmony of numbers * . A lover who withes for ...
... verse . Now nothing can be more fimple and natural , and at the fame time more plaintive and pathetic , than the image of Mr. POPE ; nor can any thing be expreffed with greater beauty , and harmony of numbers * . A lover who withes for ...
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The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Comp. from Original Manuscripts; with a ... Owen Ruffhead Volledige weergave - 1769 |
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Pagina 265 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Pagina 231 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!
Pagina 123 - In some lone isle, or distant northern land; Where the gilt chariot never marks the way, Where none learn ombre, none e'er taste bohea!
Pagina 231 - The proper study of mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err...
Pagina 192 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Pagina 124 - Who would not scorn what Housewife's Cares produce, Or who would learn one earthly Thing of Use ? To patch, nay ogle, might become a Saint, Nor could it sure be such a Sin to paint. But since, alas ! frail Beauty must decay...
Pagina 163 - Come, Abelard ! for what hast thou to dread ? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature stands check'd ; Religion disapproves ; Ev'n thou art cold — yet Eloisa loves. 260 Ah hopeless, lasting flames ! like those that burn To light the dead, and warm th
Pagina 381 - But chief her shrine where naked Venus keeps, And Cupids ride the Lion of the Deeps; Where, eas'd of Fleets, the Adriatic main Wafts the smooth Eunuch and enamour'd swain.
Pagina 80 - She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For, as in bodies, thus in souls we find, What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Pagina 239 - Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod; The state of Nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man.