The Works of Alexander Pope, Volumen 4J.F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... Aristotle did not understand Greek , nor Titus Livius , Latin . It has been since discovered that Josephus was ignorant of Hebrew ; and Erasmus so pitiful a linguist , that , Burman assures us , were he now alive , he would not deserve ...
... Aristotle did not understand Greek , nor Titus Livius , Latin . It has been since discovered that Josephus was ignorant of Hebrew ; and Erasmus so pitiful a linguist , that , Burman assures us , were he now alive , he would not deserve ...
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... Aristotle , Cicero , and one whom I should have thought this Critic the likeliest to reve- rence , the redoubtable PRISCIAN , he impiously boasted that he had arms even against Christ himself . But Codrus Urcæus went farther , and ...
... Aristotle , Cicero , and one whom I should have thought this Critic the likeliest to reve- rence , the redoubtable PRISCIAN , he impiously boasted that he had arms even against Christ himself . But Codrus Urcæus went farther , and ...
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... Aristotle's Poetics . In the former , he is perpetually striving to discover new meanings in his author , which Boileau called , The Revelations of Dacier . Cicero , as appears from many of his letters , had a great regard for this ...
... Aristotle's Poetics . In the former , he is perpetually striving to discover new meanings in his author , which Boileau called , The Revelations of Dacier . Cicero , as appears from many of his letters , had a great regard for this ...
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... Aristotle , as to be still more fond of Homer . The vile tastes of Tiberius , Nero , and Caligula , are too well known to be here mentioned . It is indeed astonishing to consider how few kings have had any dis- cerning spirit in wit ...
... Aristotle , as to be still more fond of Homer . The vile tastes of Tiberius , Nero , and Caligula , are too well known to be here mentioned . It is indeed astonishing to consider how few kings have had any dis- cerning spirit in wit ...
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... Aristotle , and also by Elian . Var . Hist . c . xxv . 1. 4. of a madman , named Thrasyllus , who used to go down to Piræum , and thought all the ships that arrived in that port were his own . Horace judiciously laid the scene of this ...
... Aristotle , and also by Elian . Var . Hist . c . xxv . 1. 4. of a madman , named Thrasyllus , who used to go down to Piræum , and thought all the ships that arrived in that port were his own . Horace judiciously laid the scene of this ...
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Página 26 - Peace to all such ! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone. Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Página 26 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Página 388 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.
Página 321 - Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year, most part, deform'd With dripping rains, or withered by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies, And fields without a flower, for warmer France With all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden fruitage, and her myrtle bowers.
Página 69 - Rolls o'er my grotto, and but sooths my sleep. There, my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place. There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul : And he, whose lightning pierc'd th...
Página 31 - Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son ; Got, while his soul did huddled notions try ; And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy.
Página 39 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Página 47 - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Página 11 - And curses Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What Drop or Nostrum can this plague remove?
Página 28 - Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying all abroad?