POPE, SELECTED POEMS; THE ESSAY ON CRITICISM; THE MORAL ESSAYS; THE DUNCIAD1876 |
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... seem probable that the circumstance of Dennis having spoken unfavourably of his Pastorals in clubs and coffee - houses , was some inducement to him to write a poem which should include a severe casti- gation of English critics in ...
... seem probable that the circumstance of Dennis having spoken unfavourably of his Pastorals in clubs and coffee - houses , was some inducement to him to write a poem which should include a severe casti- gation of English critics in ...
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... seems to have been engaged in 1709 , when he finished the Essay on Criticism ; and the lines quoted by Mr. Elwin may mean , that since the death of Walsh he no longer attempted such high themes as the Essay on Criticism , the first ...
... seems to have been engaged in 1709 , when he finished the Essay on Criticism ; and the lines quoted by Mr. Elwin may mean , that since the death of Walsh he no longer attempted such high themes as the Essay on Criticism , the first ...
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THOMAS ARNOLD. These are petty matters ; but it seems desirable to examine Mr. Elwin's charges in detail , in the case of some one poem , after which , we think , the reader will be disposed to distrust in other cases the un- favourable ...
THOMAS ARNOLD. These are petty matters ; but it seems desirable to examine Mr. Elwin's charges in detail , in the case of some one poem , after which , we think , the reader will be disposed to distrust in other cases the un- favourable ...
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... seems to have criticized them unfavourably , probably in conversation . For it must be , as Mr. Elwin rightly gathers , to some such hostile criticism that Pope referred , when he wrote , many years later— Soft were my numbers ; who ...
... seems to have criticized them unfavourably , probably in conversation . For it must be , as Mr. Elwin rightly gathers , to some such hostile criticism that Pope referred , when he wrote , many years later— Soft were my numbers ; who ...
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... seems , ten times , which --for our part , considering that the poem is 744 lines long , and that the intellectual faculty which Pope called ' sense ' is to a large extent the subject of it , we find nothing incredible in the fact ...
... seems , ten times , which --for our part , considering that the poem is 744 lines long , and that the intellectual faculty which Pope called ' sense ' is to a large extent the subject of it , we find nothing incredible in the fact ...
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Страница 4 - whispers through the trees." If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threatened (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.
Страница 1 - A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ : Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where Nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The gen'rous pleasure to be charm'd with wit.
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Страница 4 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic, if too new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Страница 28 - Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare! Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air; Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Страница 115 - 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
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Страница xl - OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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