The Works of Alexander Pope, Volumen 4J.F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... sublime ode ( the 37th of Book . i . ) made on his grand victory at Actium , till he saw it in the same scroll or volume with thirty seven others , many on trifling and private subjects ? Had Horace so little regard for so choice a ...
... sublime ode ( the 37th of Book . i . ) made on his grand victory at Actium , till he saw it in the same scroll or volume with thirty seven others , many on trifling and private subjects ? Had Horace so little regard for so choice a ...
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... sublime . Besides , the last verse- -To wrap me in the universal shade , has a languor and redundancy un- usual with our Author . W. Ver . 99. In durance , exile , Bedlam , or the Mint , ] The Poet , in our equal government , might talk ...
... sublime . Besides , the last verse- -To wrap me in the universal shade , has a languor and redundancy un- usual with our Author . W. Ver . 99. In durance , exile , Bedlam , or the Mint , ] The Poet , in our equal government , might talk ...
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... sublime . it been Mr. Pope's purpose to indulge so impertinent a curiosity , he had sought elsewhere for a commentator on his writings . W. Notwithstanding this remark of Dr. Warburton , I have taken some pains , though indeed in vain ...
... sublime . it been Mr. Pope's purpose to indulge so impertinent a curiosity , he had sought elsewhere for a commentator on his writings . W. Notwithstanding this remark of Dr. Warburton , I have taken some pains , though indeed in vain ...
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... " but such passages bear no proportion to the general sublime of the poem ; which , as the same Dryden says , we all admire with so much justice . " Non equidem insector , delendaque carmina Livî Esse reor EP . I. 159 OF HORACE .
... " but such passages bear no proportion to the general sublime of the poem ; which , as the same Dryden says , we all admire with so much justice . " Non equidem insector , delendaque carmina Livî Esse reor EP . I. 159 OF HORACE .
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... sublime of Plato to the humour of Menander . W. If Addison's verses are heavy , as is asserted in this note , yet has he displayed ( for I must repeat the assertion ) a great power of true poetic imagination , in his Vision of Mirza ...
... sublime of Plato to the humour of Menander . W. If Addison's verses are heavy , as is asserted in this note , yet has he displayed ( for I must repeat the assertion ) a great power of true poetic imagination , in his Vision of Mirza ...
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Página 13 - twas when he knew no better. Dare you refuse him? Curll invites to dine, He'll write a. Journal, or he'll turn divine.' Bless me ! a packet - ' 'Tis a stranger sues, A Virgin Tragedy, an Orphan Muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage!' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Página 32 - 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 32 - 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 408 - 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 337 - 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 37 - 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 unfeathered two-legged thing, a son; Got, while his soul did huddled notions try; And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy.
Página 77 - 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 45 - 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 53 - 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?