POPE, SELECTED POEMS; THE ESSAY ON CRITICISM; THE MORAL ESSAYS; THE DUNCIAD1876 |
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... cause for rejecting Pope's assertion , that the substance of the Essay , as finally published in 1711 , had been really written four years before . The next point on which Mr. Elwin thinks fit to assail Pope's memory , is his behaviour ...
... cause for rejecting Pope's assertion , that the substance of the Essay , as finally published in 1711 , had been really written four years before . The next point on which Mr. Elwin thinks fit to assail Pope's memory , is his behaviour ...
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... cause he declared to Caryll that he meant not to insult Dennis personally , and did not think he had done so , is said to make ' a hasty and ignominious retreat . ' We have not space to demolish the edifice of unfriendly deduction which ...
... cause he declared to Caryll that he meant not to insult Dennis personally , and did not think he had done so , is said to make ' a hasty and ignominious retreat . ' We have not space to demolish the edifice of unfriendly deduction which ...
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... cause ' his chagrin ' at the unceremonious way in which his verses had been treated . A year passes over ; the Essay on Criticism appears in print , containing these lines , the application of which to Wycherley Mr. Elwin thinks obvious ...
... cause ' his chagrin ' at the unceremonious way in which his verses had been treated . A year passes over ; the Essay on Criticism appears in print , containing these lines , the application of which to Wycherley Mr. Elwin thinks obvious ...
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... caused him to figure in the fourth Book of the Dunciad , when the Goddess of Dulness is introduced with Cibber on her lap : - Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines . Cibber was nettled by the persistency of these attacks , and ...
... caused him to figure in the fourth Book of the Dunciad , when the Goddess of Dulness is introduced with Cibber on her lap : - Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines . Cibber was nettled by the persistency of these attacks , and ...
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... causes of them - That we are to study our own taste , and know the limits of it - Nature the best guide of judgment - Improved by art and rules , which are but methodized Nature - Rules derived from the practice of the ancient poets ...
... causes of them - That we are to study our own taste , and know the limits of it - Nature the best guide of judgment - Improved by art and rules , which are but methodized Nature - Rules derived from the practice of the ancient poets ...
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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 |
Términos y frases comunes
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
Pasajes populares
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,