The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson, Volumul 41812 |
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... common to all , the concern ought to be so ; and that it was an act of justice to detect the authors , not only of this account , but as many of them are the same who for several years past have made free with the greatest names in ...
... common to all , the concern ought to be so ; and that it was an act of justice to detect the authors , not only of this account , but as many of them are the same who for several years past have made free with the greatest names in ...
Pagina 13
... common cry of the poetasters of the town , and their fautors , that it is an ill - natured thing to ex- pose the pretenders to wit and poetry . The judges and magistrates may with full as good reason be re- proached with ill - nature ...
... common cry of the poetasters of the town , and their fautors , that it is an ill - natured thing to ex- pose the pretenders to wit and poetry . The judges and magistrates may with full as good reason be re- proached with ill - nature ...
Pagina 17
... common : -instead of majesty , we have something that is very mean ; instead of gravity , something that is very boyish ; and instead of perspi- cuity and lucid order , we have but too often obscu- rity and confusion . " And in another ...
... common : -instead of majesty , we have something that is very mean ; instead of gravity , something that is very boyish ; and instead of perspi- cuity and lucid order , we have but too often obscu- rity and confusion . " And in another ...
Pagina 18
... common - place . Horace has even in his Art of Poetry thrown out several things which plainly shew he thought an Art of Poetry was of no use , even while he was writing one . " ” To all which great authorities , we can only oppose that ...
... common - place . Horace has even in his Art of Poetry thrown out several things which plainly shew he thought an Art of Poetry was of no use , even while he was writing one . " ” To all which great authorities , we can only oppose that ...
Pagina 19
... common sense of mankind in more strong , more beautiful , or more uncommon lights . If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry , he will find but few precepts in it which he may not meet with in Aristotle , and which were not commonly ...
... common sense of mankind in more strong , more beautiful , or more uncommon lights . If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry , he will find but few precepts in it which he may not meet with in Aristotle , and which were not commonly ...
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Pagina 193 - For thee we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With all such reading as was never read : For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write. about it, goddess, and about it : So spins the silk-worm small its slender store, And labours till it clouds itself all o'er.
Pagina 219 - Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus
Pagina 191 - The critic Eye, that microscope of Wit, Sees hairs and pores, examines bit by bit...
Pagina 294 - How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue ! How sweet the periods, neither said, nor sung! Still break the benches, Henley ! with thy strain, While Sherlock, Hare, and Gibson preach in vain. Oh, great restorer of the good old stage, Preacher at once, and zany of thy age ! Oh, worthy thou of Egypt's wise abodes, A decent priest, where monkeys were the gods...
Pagina 278 - To where Fleet-ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood.
Pagina 224 - This gave Mr Pope the thought, that he had now some opportunity of doing good, by detecting and dragging into light these common enemies of mankind; since to invalidate this universal slander, it sufficed to show what contemptible men were the authors of it.
Pagina 259 - There motley images her fancy strike, Figures ill pair'd, and similes unlike, She sees a mob of metaphors advance, Pleased with the madness of the mazy dance : How Tragedy and Comedy embrace ; How Farce and Epic get a jumbled race ; How Time himself stands still at her command, Realms shift their place, and ocean turns to land.
Pagina 158 - Till one wide conflagration swallows all. Thence a new world, to nature's laws unknown, Breaks out refulgent, with a heaven its own: Another Cynthia her new journey runs, And other planets circle other suns. The forests dance, the rivers upward rise, Whales sport in woods, and dolphins in the skies; And last, to give the whole creation grace, Lo! one vast egg produces human race. Joy fills his soul, joy innocent of thought; What power, he cries, what power these wonders wrought?
Pagina 189 - Where Bentley late tempestuous wont to sport In troubled waters, but now sleeps in port.
Pagina 349 - ... nature at one glance, and to be the only author that gives ground for a very new opinion, that the philosopher, and even the man of the world, may be born, as well as the poet. It must be owned, that with all these great excellencies, he has almost as great defects ; and that as he has certainly written better, so he has perhaps written worse, than any other.