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See Hawkesworth's edition , vol . vi.-S. 2 Mr. Pope , in one of the prints from
Scheemaker's monument of Shakspeare in Westminster Abbey , has sufficiently
shown his contempt of Alderinan Barber , by the following couplet , which is ...
See Hawkesworth's edition , vol . vi.-S. 2 Mr. Pope , in one of the prints from
Scheemaker's monument of Shakspeare in Westminster Abbey , has sufficiently
shown his contempt of Alderinan Barber , by the following couplet , which is ...
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A LETTER TO THE PUBLISHER , Occasioned by the first correct Edition of the
Dunciad . It is with pleasure I hear that you have procured a correct copy of the
Dunciad , which the many surreptitious ones have rendered so necessary ; and it
is ...
A LETTER TO THE PUBLISHER , Occasioned by the first correct Edition of the
Dunciad . It is with pleasure I hear that you have procured a correct copy of the
Dunciad , which the many surreptitious ones have rendered so necessary ; and it
is ...
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... and if ever he should give us an edition of this poem himself , I may see some
of them treated as gently , on their repentance or better merit , as Perrault and
Quinault were at last by Boileau . In one point I must be allowed to think the
charac ...
... and if ever he should give us an edition of this poem himself , I may see some
of them treated as gently , on their repentance or better merit , as Perrault and
Quinault were at last by Boileau . In one point I must be allowed to think the
charac ...
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Curll , in his Key to the Dunciad , ( first edition , said to be printed for A. Dodd , ) in
the lòth page , declared Gildon to be the author of that libel ; though in the
subsequent editions of his Key he left out this assertion , and affirm . ed ( in the
Curliad ...
Curll , in his Key to the Dunciad , ( first edition , said to be printed for A. Dodd , ) in
the lòth page , declared Gildon to be the author of that libel ; though in the
subsequent editions of his Key he left out this assertion , and affirm . ed ( in the
Curliad ...
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Nor for this only do they deserve our thanks , but for exhibiting on the same
monument the first specimen of an edition of an author in marble ; where ( as may
be seen on comparing the tomb with the book ) in the space of five lines , two
words ...
Nor for this only do they deserve our thanks , but for exhibiting on the same
monument the first specimen of an edition of an author in marble ; where ( as may
be seen on comparing the tomb with the book ) in the space of five lines , two
words ...
Какво казват хората - Напишете рецензия
Не намерихме рецензии на обичайните места.
Други издания - Преглед на всички
Често срещани думи и фрази
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Страница 11 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Страница 6 - And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire dilemma! either way I'm sped, If foes, they write, — if friends, they read me dead.
Страница 280 - Some gentle James, to bless the land again ; To stick the doctor's chair into the throne, Give law to words, or war with words alone, Senates and courts with Greek and Latin rule, And turn the council to a grammar school ! For sure, if Dulness sees a grateful day, 'Tis in the shade of arbitrary sway.
Страница 14 - What ? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of Ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P.
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| Заглавие | The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author ... Том 2 от The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author, Theophilus Cibber |
| Автор | Alexander Pope |
| Издател | Z. & B. F. Pratt, 1846 |
| Оригиналът е от | Мичиганският университет |
| Цифровизирана на | 25 май 2007 |
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