The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others: To which Were Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks, Том 6C. and J. Rivington, 1824 |
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... Praise of Virtue may be admitted with Propriety , Ver . 315. Caution with regard to Panegyric , Ver . 329 . Dignity of true Satire , Ver . 341 . 277 . PART III . The The History of true Satire . Roman Satirists , Lucilius , Horace ...
... Praise of Virtue may be admitted with Propriety , Ver . 315. Caution with regard to Panegyric , Ver . 329 . Dignity of true Satire , Ver . 341 . 277 . PART III . The The History of true Satire . Roman Satirists , Lucilius , Horace ...
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... praise the coy , the modest , woo , 35 And only fly that glory may pursue : She , power resistless , rules the wise and great ; Bends even reluctant hermits at her feet ; Haunts the proud city , and the lowly shade , And sways alike the ...
... praise the coy , the modest , woo , 35 And only fly that glory may pursue : She , power resistless , rules the wise and great ; Bends even reluctant hermits at her feet ; Haunts the proud city , and the lowly shade , And sways alike the ...
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... praise . But chief , be steady in a noble end , And shew mankind that truth has yet a friend . ' Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write , As foplings grin to shew their teeth are white . To brand a doubtful folly with a smile , Or ...
... praise . But chief , be steady in a noble end , And shew mankind that truth has yet a friend . ' Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write , As foplings grin to shew their teeth are white . To brand a doubtful folly with a smile , Or ...
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... sordid pebble meanly graced with gold ? Let real merit then adorn your lays , For shame attends on prostituted praise ; VOL . VI . с 340 346 And all your wit , your most distinguish'd art PART II . 17 ESSAY ON SATIRE .
... sordid pebble meanly graced with gold ? Let real merit then adorn your lays , For shame attends on prostituted praise ; VOL . VI . с 340 346 And all your wit , your most distinguish'd art PART II . 17 ESSAY ON SATIRE .
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... praise to say , the oddest thing . 430 Proud for a jest obscene , a patron's nod , To martyr virtue , or blaspheme his God . Ill - fated DRYDEN ! who unmoved can see Th ' extremes of wit and meanness join'd in thee ! Flames that could ...
... praise to say , the oddest thing . 430 Proud for a jest obscene , a patron's nod , To martyr virtue , or blaspheme his God . Ill - fated DRYDEN ! who unmoved can see Th ' extremes of wit and meanness join'd in thee ! Flames that could ...
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Страница 82 - Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all seesaw, between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis.
Страница 41 - A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross?
Страница 36 - 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 a while one parent from the sky!
Страница 40 - tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Страница 75 - Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do:) Maintain a Poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please : Above a Patron, tho...
Страница 414 - ... male necne Lepos saltet; sed quod magis ad nos pertinet et nescire malum est agitamus: utrumne divitiis homines an sint virtute beati; quidve ad amicitias, usus rectumne, trahat nos; 75 et quae sit natura boni summumque quid eius.
Страница 464 - So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along : But such is thy avarice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must have starved, and the poet have died. THE BALANCE OF EUROPE. Now Europe balanced, neither side prevails ; For nothing's left in either of the scales.
Страница 81 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings...
Страница 63 - 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, Alike...