The Works of Alexander Pope, Том 4J. F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... taken from a foolish Poet of Rhodes , who pretended much to Greek . Schol . in Horat . 1. i . Dr. Bentley pretends , that this Pitholeon libelled Cæsar also . See notes on Hor . Sat. 10. 1. i . P. Ver . 54. He'll write a Journal ...
... taken from a foolish Poet of Rhodes , who pretended much to Greek . Schol . in Horat . 1. i . Dr. Bentley pretends , that this Pitholeon libelled Cæsar also . See notes on Hor . Sat. 10. 1. i . P. Ver . 54. He'll write a Journal ...
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... taken from a story in the legend of St. Genevieve . They both deservedly underwent the same fate . As he began his Pas- torals soon after , he used to say pleasantly , that he had literally followed the example of Virgil , who tells us ...
... taken from a story in the legend of St. Genevieve . They both deservedly underwent the same fate . As he began his Pas- torals soon after , he used to say pleasantly , that he had literally followed the example of Virgil , who tells us ...
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... taken of it : but I suppose no critic can be found that will not place it far above Pope's Pastorals . On reading which ode a certain person exclaimed . " Sweet Bard , who shunn'st the noise of Folly , Most musical , most melancholy ...
... taken of it : but I suppose no critic can be found that will not place it far above Pope's Pastorals . On reading which ode a certain person exclaimed . " Sweet Bard , who shunn'st the noise of Folly , Most musical , most melancholy ...
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... taken to it by the admirers of Lucilius . They were not , therefore , published originally si- mul . Again , the 4th Satire certainly made its appearance along with the 10th , when they composed one book or volume . It was therefore ...
... taken to it by the admirers of Lucilius . They were not , therefore , published originally si- mul . Again , the 4th Satire certainly made its appearance along with the 10th , when they composed one book or volume . It was therefore ...
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... taken off than in the original . Horace evades the force of it with a quibble . " Esto , si quis mala , sed bona si quis " But the Imitator's grave Epistles shew the satire to be a serious reproof , and therefore justifiable ; which in ...
... taken off than in the original . Horace evades the force of it with a quibble . " Esto , si quis mala , sed bona si quis " But the Imitator's grave Epistles shew the satire to be a serious reproof , and therefore justifiable ; which in ...
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Страница 32 - Peace to all such ! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone. Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Страница 32 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Страница 13 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse." If I dislike it, "Furies, death, and rage!" If I approve, "Commend it to the stage.
Страница 408 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.
Страница 45 - So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks, Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Страница 53 - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Страница 11 - 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?
Страница 52 - Bestia's from the throne. Born to no pride, inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious through his age.
Страница 34 - 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 load, On wings of winds came flying all abroad?
Страница 369 - It is to the strength of this amazing invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture which is so forcible in Homer that no man of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him.