The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Compiled from Original Manuscripts; with a Critical Essay on His Writings and GeniusC. Bathurst, H. Woodfall, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, W. Johnston, B. White, T. Caslon, T. Longman, B. Law, Johnson and Payne, S. Bladon, T. Cadell, and the executors of A. Millar., 1769 - 578 páginas |
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... say , that he could never follow any thing which he did not pursue with pleasure : and his masters either wanted fagacity to difcover the bent of his genius , or talents to adapt , their inftructions accordingly , fo as to render his ...
... say , that he could never follow any thing which he did not pursue with pleasure : and his masters either wanted fagacity to difcover the bent of his genius , or talents to adapt , their inftructions accordingly , fo as to render his ...
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... says , in his Epiftle to Dr. Arbuthnot : " I lifp'd in numbers , for the numbers came . When he was yet a child , his father would fre- quently fet him to make English verses , and , though no poet , was nevertheless fo very dif- ficult ...
... says , in his Epiftle to Dr. Arbuthnot : " I lifp'd in numbers , for the numbers came . When he was yet a child , his father would fre- quently fet him to make English verses , and , though no poet , was nevertheless fo very dif- ficult ...
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... say , that Dryden had improv- ed the art of verfification beyond any of the preceeding poets , and that he would have been perfect in it , had he not been fo often obliged to write with precipitation . His works , there- fore , ferved ...
... say , that Dryden had improv- ed the art of verfification beyond any of the preceeding poets , and that he would have been perfect in it , had he not been fo often obliged to write with precipitation . His works , there- fore , ferved ...
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... says , “ Cum canerem reges et praelia , " & c . Being now come to fuch part of his works , as have undergone the trials of criticism ; it remains agreeably to the plan proposed , to exa- mine the several pieces refpectively , in the ...
... says , “ Cum canerem reges et praelia , " & c . Being now come to fuch part of his works , as have undergone the trials of criticism ; it remains agreeably to the plan proposed , to exa- mine the several pieces refpectively , in the ...
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... Say , Daphnis , fay , in what glad foil appears , " A wond'rous tree that facred monarchs bears ? " " With what propriety , the critic asks , could the tree whofe fhade protected the King , be faid to be prolific of princes ? " Here how ...
... Say , Daphnis , fay , in what glad foil appears , " A wond'rous tree that facred monarchs bears ? " " With what propriety , the critic asks , could the tree whofe fhade protected the King , be faid to be prolific of princes ? " Here how ...
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Página 265 - 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 231 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!
Página 123 - In some lone isle, or distant northern land; Where the gilt chariot never marks the way, Where none learn ombre, none e'er taste bohea!
Página 231 - The proper study of mankind is Man. Plac'd 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; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err...
Página 192 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Página 124 - Who would not scorn what Housewife's Cares produce, Or who would learn one earthly Thing of Use ? To patch, nay ogle, might become a Saint, Nor could it sure be such a Sin to paint. But since, alas ! frail Beauty must decay...
Página 163 - Come, Abelard ! for what hast thou to dread ? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature stands check'd ; Religion disapproves ; Ev'n thou art cold — yet Eloisa loves. 260 Ah hopeless, lasting flames ! like those that burn To light the dead, and warm th
Página 381 - 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 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 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.