POPE, SELECTED POEMS; THE ESSAY ON CRITICISM; THE MORAL ESSAYS; THE DUNCIAD1876 |
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... published in 1694 a translation of Rapin's Reflections on the Poetics of Aristotle . John Dennis about the same time , in The Impartiai Critic , analysed with considerable skill the grounds of Waller's poetic reputation , and compared ...
... published in 1694 a translation of Rapin's Reflections on the Poetics of Aristotle . John Dennis about the same time , in The Impartiai Critic , analysed with considerable skill the grounds of Waller's poetic reputation , and compared ...
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... published avowal , he had really written it in 1709 , and very likely did not write it till 1711 , the year in 6 which it was published . It represents , ' Introduction . ix.
... published avowal , he had really written it in 1709 , and very likely did not write it till 1711 , the year in 6 which it was published . It represents , ' Introduction . ix.
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... published in 1711. ' Here is a discrepancy ; how is it to be ex- plained ? Mr. Elwin's explanation is simple ; it is that Pope lied when he said that the poem was written in 1707 , and even was not truthful when he said that it was ...
... published in 1711. ' Here is a discrepancy ; how is it to be ex- plained ? Mr. Elwin's explanation is simple ; it is that Pope lied when he said that the poem was written in 1707 , and even was not truthful when he said that it was ...
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... published it in 1814. Might not either of these writers have truly named either the earlier or the later date , according as the original draft , or the finished work , were uppermost in his thoughts , as the date of composition ? Why ...
... published it in 1814. Might not either of these writers have truly named either the earlier or the later date , according as the original draft , or the finished work , were uppermost in his thoughts , as the date of composition ? Why ...
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... 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 to Dennis . These are petty matters ; but it seems desirable to xii Introduction .
... 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 to Dennis . These are petty matters ; but it seems desirable to xii Introduction .
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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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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,