The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs. Warburton and Warton [&c.]. To which are added, some original letters, with additional observations, and memoirs, by W.L. Bowles, Volumen 51806 |
Términos y frases comunes
abuſe Æneid affures againſt alfo alſo anſwer Bavius becauſe Behold beſt Biſhop Bookfellers caufe cauſe character Cibber Codrus Criticiſm Curl defign Dennis Dryden dull Dulneſs Dunce Dunciad edition Effay Engliſh ev'ry faid fame fatire fays fecond feems fhall fhew fhould fince fing firft firſt fleep fome fons ftill fubject fuch fure genius Goddeſs greateſt hath Heav'n Hero himſelf Homer honour Ibid Iliad IMITATIONS Journal juft King laft laſt learned lefs Letter loft Lord moft moſt Mufes muſt never o'er obferves occafion octavo Ovid paffage perfon Philofophy pleaſed Poem Poet Poetry Pope Pope's praiſe prefent printed profe publiſhed reafon REMARKS rife ſays SCRIBLERUS ſee Shakeſpear ſhall ſhe ſome ſpeak ſtand ſtill ſuch Swift thee thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou thro Tibbald tranflation Univerfities uſed verfe verſes VIRG Virgil WAKEFIELD WARBURTON WARTON whofe whoſe writ writing
Pasajes populares
Página 326 - Night primeval 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 297 - But chief her shrine where naked Venus keeps, And Cupids ride the Lion of the Deeps; Where, eas'd of Fleets, the Adriatic main Wafts the smooth Eunuch and enamour'd swain.
Página 109 - Round him much embryo, much abortion lay, Much future ode, and abdicated play...
Página 330 - Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Página 382 - 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 silkworm small its slender store, And labours till it clouds itself all o'er.
Página 27 - ... or science, which have not been touched upon by others ; we have little else left us but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights. If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry...
Página 415 - Till one wide conflagration swallows all. 240 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.
Página 103 - In merry old England it once was a rule, The King had his Poet, and also his Fool : But now we're so frugal, I'd have you to know it, That Cibber can serve both for Fool and for Poet.
Página 418 - See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly! In vain! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die, Religion blushing veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
Página 27 - Poetry, he will find but few precepts in it which he may not meet with in Aristotle, and which were not commonly known by all the poets of the Augustan age. His way of expressing and applying them, not his invention of them, is what we are chiefly to admire.