The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Comp. from Original Manuscripts; with a Critical Essay on His Writings and GeniusC. Bathurst, 1769 - 578 páginas |
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... just and ingenious in the opinion of a great philofopher , that he has borrowed it to illuf- trate and adorn a general principle in one of his more capital works -Attached to the thread of every man's life , fays the noble alle- gorift ...
... just and ingenious in the opinion of a great philofopher , that he has borrowed it to illuf- trate and adorn a general principle in one of his more capital works -Attached to the thread of every man's life , fays the noble alle- gorift ...
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... just cenfure ; but to measure them by the scale of candid criticism , the better to afcertain the nature , force and ex- tent of his genius . The name of a critic , being generally received in an ill fenfe , is become odious , because ...
... just cenfure ; but to measure them by the scale of candid criticism , the better to afcertain the nature , force and ex- tent of his genius . The name of a critic , being generally received in an ill fenfe , is become odious , because ...
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... just to obferve , that our critic has cor- rected a grammatical error in the Meffiah , where our poet should have faid , The fwain-- " Shall START amidst the thirsty wild to hear " New falls of water murmuring in his ear . " D 4 fu ...
... just to obferve , that our critic has cor- rected a grammatical error in the Meffiah , where our poet should have faid , The fwain-- " Shall START amidst the thirsty wild to hear " New falls of water murmuring in his ear . " D 4 fu ...
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... just . It may be neceffary , however , to confider this paffage refpecting the human faculties , fomewhat more critically ; as it will be of use hereafter , in the attempt to ascertain the nature and extent of our author's genius . It ...
... just . It may be neceffary , however , to confider this paffage refpecting the human faculties , fomewhat more critically ; as it will be of use hereafter , in the attempt to ascertain the nature and extent of our author's genius . It ...
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... just wonder , and ev'n thine , " O Rome ! ) " No fingle parts unequally furprize , " All comes united to th ' admiring eyes ; " No monftrous height , or breadth , or length 66 appear ; " The Whole at once is bold , and regular . " There ...
... just wonder , and ev'n thine , " O Rome ! ) " No fingle parts unequally furprize , " All comes united to th ' admiring eyes ; " No monftrous height , or breadth , or length 66 appear ; " The Whole at once is bold , and regular . " There ...
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AARON HILL addreffed admirable affured againſt anſwer beautiful becauſe beft beſt cenfure character compofition critic Dean Swift defcribed defcription defign defire difplayed Dunciad Effay effayift epiftle ev'ry excellent expreffed fafe faid fame fatire fays feems fenfe fenfibility fentiments ferve feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince fincere firft firſt fome foon fpeaking fpirit friendſhip ftate ftill ftriking ftrong fubject fublime fuch fuperior fuppofed fure genius himſelf honour Iliad illuftrated imagination inftance itſelf John Searl judgment juft juſt laft laſt learned lefs letter likewife Lord Lord Bolingbroke merit mind moft moral moſt muft muſt myſelf nature never nevertheleſs numbers obferves occafion paffage paffed paffion perfon piece pleaſed pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry POPE POPE's prefent profe publiſhed purpoſe racter raiſe reafon refpect ridicule ſay ſcene ſeems ſpeak tafte thefe themſelves theſe lines thofe thoſe thought tion tranflation uſe verfe virtue whofe writings
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Página 265 - Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge Thy foe. If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way...
Página 256 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
Página 231 - With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and...
Página 80 - She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For, as in bodies, thus in souls we find, What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Página 298 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ; Enough, that Virtue fill'd the space between ; Prov'd by the ends of being, to have been.
Página 229 - But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at ev'ry pore? Or quick effluvia darting thro' the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain?
Página 116 - He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts...
Página 239 - Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod; The state of Nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man.
Página 231 - KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest...
Página 226 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.