POPE, SELECTED POEMS; THE ESSAY ON CRITICISM; THE MORAL ESSAYS; THE DUNCIAD1876 |
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... Swift , taking up the one side , and Wootton , Bentley , and a number of obscure persons , the other - respecting the compara- tive merits of ancient and modern learning , must have excited a keen interest in the young poet . Dryden ...
... Swift , taking up the one side , and Wootton , Bentley , and a number of obscure persons , the other - respecting the compara- tive merits of ancient and modern learning , must have excited a keen interest in the young poet . Dryden ...
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... Swift , taking up the one side , and Wootton , Bentley , and a number of obscure persons , the other - respecting the compara- tive merits of ancient and modern learning , must have excited a keen interest in the young poet . Dryden ...
... Swift , taking up the one side , and Wootton , Bentley , and a number of obscure persons , the other - respecting the compara- tive merits of ancient and modern learning , must have excited a keen interest in the young poet . Dryden ...
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... Swift , to whose warm canvassing , and re- commendations that would take no denial , Pope had been indebted for the extraordinary sale of his Homer in 1715 , a sale which had made him thence- forward independent of the world , -stayed ...
... Swift , to whose warm canvassing , and re- commendations that would take no denial , Pope had been indebted for the extraordinary sale of his Homer in 1715 , a sale which had made him thence- forward independent of the world , -stayed ...
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... Swift that the ' surreptitious ' editions were launched by the author no less than those which were avowed . A short 1 Dedication to Lord Middlesex , quoted by Johnson in his Life of Pope . examination of the letters bearing upon the ...
... Swift that the ' surreptitious ' editions were launched by the author no less than those which were avowed . A short 1 Dedication to Lord Middlesex , quoted by Johnson in his Life of Pope . examination of the letters bearing upon the ...
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... Swift that his Dulness ( the name by which the poem had been mentioned in several previous letters ) was in future to be called by a more pompous name , the Dunciad . Swift answers ( May 10 ) , ' You talk of this Dunciad , but I am ...
... Swift that his Dulness ( the name by which the poem had been mentioned in several previous letters ) was in future to be called by a more pompous name , the Dunciad . Swift answers ( May 10 ) , ' You talk of this Dunciad , but I am ...
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Selected Poems: The Essay on Criticism, the Moral Essays, the Dunciad Alexander Pope Vista completa - 1888 |
Selected Poems: The Essay on Criticism, the Moral Essays, the Dunciad Alexander Pope Vista completa - 1888 |
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Absalom and Achitophel admiration Æneid Ambrose Philips ancient Atossa Balaam bards Bavius Behold Bishop Book called casuistry character charms Cibber College Colley Cibber court Dennis divine Dryden Duchess Duke dull Dulness dunce Dunciad edition Elwin English Epistle Essay on Criticism Eusden eyes fame fools genius goddess grace head Heaven hero Homer Horace Imitated John Dennis Julius Cæsar king learn'd learning letter lines live London Lord means mind Moral Essays Muse nature ne'er never o'er once Ostrogoths Oxford passage passion play poem poet poet's poetry Pope Pope's praise published queen quoted rage reign rhyme Richard Blackmore Rome rules satire says Scriblerus sense shade soul Spectator Swift taste thee thou thought throne translation true verse Virg Virgil virtue Warburton Ward Warton words writ write written wrote Wycherley youth
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Página 115 - In vain, they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Página 4 - whispers through the trees." If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threatened (not in vain) with " sleep." Then at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Página 1 - A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ : Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where Nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The gen'rous pleasure to be charm'd with wit.
Página 149 - Excise. A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Página 4 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic, if too new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Página 28 - Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare! Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air; Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Página 115 - Night primaeval and of Chaos old ! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. 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
Página 127 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
Página xl - OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Página 45 - Or in proud falls magnificently lost, But clear and artless, pouring through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows? Whose seats the weary traveller repose ? Who taught that Heav'n-directed spire to rise? " The Man of Ross,