The Works of Alexander Pope, Том 6J. F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... writer as a poet . It seems to be growing a little fashion- able to decry his great merits as a poet . They who do this seem not sufficiently to have attended to his admirable Ode to Mr. Charles Montague , afterward Earl of Halifax ...
... writer as a poet . It seems to be growing a little fashion- able to decry his great merits as a poet . They who do this seem not sufficiently to have attended to his admirable Ode to Mr. Charles Montague , afterward Earl of Halifax ...
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... writers is perhaps more to be lamented than of Stesi- chorus and Menander . The former is thus characterized by Quin- tilian , 1. 10. " Stesichorus quam sit Ingenio validus , materiæ quoque ostendunt , maxima bella et clarissimos duces ...
... writers is perhaps more to be lamented than of Stesi- chorus and Menander . The former is thus characterized by Quin- tilian , 1. 10. " Stesichorus quam sit Ingenio validus , materiæ quoque ostendunt , maxima bella et clarissimos duces ...
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... Writer only picking out their absurdities . W. Ramsay took this circumstance from the seventeenth book of Strabo : " Other men begin not the education of their children till after they are born ; but the Magi seemed to do it before ...
... Writer only picking out their absurdities . W. Ramsay took this circumstance from the seventeenth book of Strabo : " Other men begin not the education of their children till after they are born ; but the Magi seemed to do it before ...
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... Writer . Likewise a " Crab - tree that had been hitherto barren , appeared on a sudden laden with a vast quantity of Crabs : this sign also the old gentleman imagined to be a prognostic of the acute- ness of his Wit . A great swarm of ...
... Writer . Likewise a " Crab - tree that had been hitherto barren , appeared on a sudden laden with a vast quantity of Crabs : this sign also the old gentleman imagined to be a prognostic of the acute- ness of his Wit . A great swarm of ...
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... writers in sentiment ; and in this his extravagance does not exceed that of Pomponius Lætus , Belurger , and many others . He there appears in the light of an Antiquary , as is shewn by the collection which composes the pile ; next of a ...
... writers in sentiment ; and in this his extravagance does not exceed that of Pomponius Lætus , Belurger , and many others . He there appears in the light of an Antiquary , as is shewn by the collection which composes the pile ; next of a ...
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Страница 377 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Страница 369 - And strike to dust th' imperial tow'rs of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair nymph! thy hairs should feel The conqu'ring force of unresisted steel?
Страница 364 - Methinks already I your tears survey, Already hear the horrid things they say, Already see you a degraded toast, And all your honour in a whisper lost! How shall I then your helpless fame defend? 'Twill then be infamy to seem your friend! And shall this prize, th...
Страница 376 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void...
Страница 372 - Her great great grandsire wore about his neck, In three seal-rings; which after, melted down, Form'da vast buckle for his widow's gown: Her infant grandame's whistle next it grew, The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew; Then in a bodkin grac'd her mother's hairs, Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears. ) "Boast not my fall
Страница 365 - Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain; Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide: Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 'Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th...
Страница 257 - THE DESCRIPTIONS. For a tempest.—" Take Eurus, Zephyr, Auster and Boreas, and cast them together in one verse. Add to these of rain, lightning, and of thunder, the loudest you can, quantum sufficit.
Страница 19 - Tis (let me see) three years and more (October next it will be four) Since Harley bid me first attend, And chose me for an humble friend; Would take me in his coach to chat, And question me of this and that; As,
Страница 386 - He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes ; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
Страница 304 - Jerusalem with iniquity: the heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, "Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.