The Works of Alexander Pope, Том 4J. F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... only to those I am least sorry to offend , the vicious or the ungenerous . Many will know their own pictures in it , there be- ing not a circumstance but what is true ; but I have 4 for the most part spared their Names , and B 2.
... only to those I am least sorry to offend , the vicious or the ungenerous . Many will know their own pictures in it , there be- ing not a circumstance but what is true ; but I have 4 for the most part spared their Names , and B 2.
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... true in fact : " I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or fair man , of a mild or choleric disposition , married or a bachelor . " What passages in Horace are ...
... true in fact : " I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or fair man , of a mild or choleric disposition , married or a bachelor . " What passages in Horace are ...
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... true Character of descrip- tive poetry , as it is called . A composition , in his opinion , as ab- surd as a feast made up of sauces . The office of a picturesque ima- gination is to brighten and adorn good sense ; so that to employ it ...
... true Character of descrip- tive poetry , as it is called . A composition , in his opinion , as ab- surd as a feast made up of sauces . The office of a picturesque ima- gination is to brighten and adorn good sense ; so that to employ it ...
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... true , these were lavished upon his enemies : for his friends he had other things in store . In a letter to Thuanus , speaking of two of them , Clavius and Lipsius , he calls the first a monster of igno- rance ; and the other a slave to ...
... true , these were lavished upon his enemies : for his friends he had other things in store . In a letter to Thuanus , speaking of two of them , Clavius and Lipsius , he calls the first a monster of igno- rance ; and the other a slave to ...
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... least eight years before Virgil made it . The ode , that so chearfully invites Virgil to a feast , according to the same great Critic's chronology , was ad- 175 A man's true merit ' tis not hard to TO THE SATIRES . 27.
... least eight years before Virgil made it . The ode , that so chearfully invites Virgil to a feast , according to the same great Critic's chronology , was ad- 175 A man's true merit ' tis not hard to TO THE SATIRES . 27.
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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.