Two Lectures on the Poetry of Pope, and on His Own Travels in America: Delivered to the Leeds Mechanics' Institution & Literary Society, December 5th and 6th, 1850Simpkin, Marshall, 1851 - 44 páginas |
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... justice to my own character as a critic , is to state frankly what I do not claim for my client , the late Alexander Pope . I do not , then , pretend to place him on the very highest pedestal of poetry , among the few foremost of the ...
... justice to my own character as a critic , is to state frankly what I do not claim for my client , the late Alexander Pope . I do not , then , pretend to place him on the very highest pedestal of poetry , among the few foremost of the ...
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... justice of Pope's words , but their great vogue and currency— " For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the ...
... justice of Pope's words , but their great vogue and currency— " For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the ...
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... justice to the stately flow of verse upon the highest of human themes . Both Dr. Johnson and Dr. Warton give it a decided preference over the Pollio of Virgil , which is concerned with topics of close and wonderful similarity . I do not ...
... justice to the stately flow of verse upon the highest of human themes . Both Dr. Johnson and Dr. Warton give it a decided preference over the Pollio of Virgil , which is concerned with topics of close and wonderful similarity . I do not ...
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... justice to his genius , and then detracts from its lustre . It is also a great proof of the cleverness of the satire , that , sincere as our respect is both for the genius and character of Addison , it is impossible to go through this ...
... justice to his genius , and then detracts from its lustre . It is also a great proof of the cleverness of the satire , that , sincere as our respect is both for the genius and character of Addison , it is impossible to go through this ...
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... justice to Pope's powers of satire , I must not omit to mention what I consider to be another of his felicities almost of an opposite character , though I have perceived with pleasure since I noted this topic , that I have been ...
... justice to Pope's powers of satire , I must not omit to mention what I consider to be another of his felicities almost of an opposite character , though I have perceived with pleasure since I noted this topic , that I have been ...
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Página 16 - 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; View him with scornful, yev with jealous eyes.
Página 11 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Página 21 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood! The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line...
Página 21 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and shamed by ridicule alone.
Página 19 - But why then publish? Granville the polite, And knowing Walsh, would tell me I could write; Well-natured Garth inflamed with early praise; And Congreve loved, and Swift endured my lays; The courtly Talbot, Somers, Sheffield read; Ev'n mitred Rochester would nod the head, And St. John's self (great Dryden's friends before) With open arms received one poet more.
Página 18 - Of all her dears she never slander'd one, But cares not if a thousand are undone. Would Chloe know if you're alive or dead ? She bids her footman put it in her head. Chloe is prudent — Would you too be wise ? Then never break your heart when Chloe dies.
Página 11 - True wit is nature to advantage dressed, — What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Página 11 - For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best.
Página 21 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart ; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. To Him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all.
Página 11 - Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest; The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.