The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly, Volumen 21835 |
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... critic , and a poet , we have a right to anticipate all the illustration of which the author is now susceptible ; and what is done in the first volume fairly fulfils this expectation . The memoir , though excessively severe on Warburton ...
... critic , and a poet , we have a right to anticipate all the illustration of which the author is now susceptible ; and what is done in the first volume fairly fulfils this expectation . The memoir , though excessively severe on Warburton ...
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... critic , and can dissect poetry in a masterly manner . Few libraries , we imagine , will ever be found so deficient as to be without Pope's works , and in no form can we so strongly recommend them as that in which Mr. Valpy has sent ...
... critic , and can dissect poetry in a masterly manner . Few libraries , we imagine , will ever be found so deficient as to be without Pope's works , and in no form can we so strongly recommend them as that in which Mr. Valpy has sent ...
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... critic's praise , and the attention of the public .'- Bibliographical Miscellany . One of the most admirable works which antiquity has be- queathed to us , we have here in the accurate and graceful trans- lation of the Langhornes ...
... critic's praise , and the attention of the public .'- Bibliographical Miscellany . One of the most admirable works which antiquity has be- queathed to us , we have here in the accurate and graceful trans- lation of the Langhornes ...
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... critic points it out in Lucan's -servare modum , finemque tenere , Naturamque sequi , & c . - Book ii . 381 . 265 On Cooper's - hill eternal wreaths shall grow . The predic- tion , unlike other prophecies , was farther from fulfilment ...
... critic points it out in Lucan's -servare modum , finemque tenere , Naturamque sequi , & c . - Book ii . 381 . 265 On Cooper's - hill eternal wreaths shall grow . The predic- tion , unlike other prophecies , was farther from fulfilment ...
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... critic on all writings , charac- ters , and buildings , but his own , throws strong doubt on its probable excellence . Several plates of the intended new palace of Whitehall , ' says he , have been given , but I believe from no finished ...
... critic on all writings , charac- ters , and buildings , but his own , throws strong doubt on its probable excellence . Several plates of the intended new palace of Whitehall , ' says he , have been given , but I believe from no finished ...
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Página 72 - whispers through the trees ;' If crystal streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (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 196 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Página 70 - Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face of nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay ; But true expression, like th' unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
Página 61 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchang'd, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides, Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...
Página 67 - A little learning is a dangerous thing! Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
Página 110 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;) " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace " Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : " One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead— " And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Página 180 - They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge. No place is sacred, not the church is free, Ev'n Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me: Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me, just at dinner-time.
Página 73 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 81 - Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do ; Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Página 69 - The manners, passions, unities, what not? All which, exact to rule, were brought about, Were but a combat in the lists left out. "What! leave the combat out?" exclaims the knight; Yes, or we must renounce the Stagirite. "Not so, by Heaven" (he answers in a rage), "Knights, squires, and steeds, must enter on the stage.