The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton, Volume 5A. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, C. Bathurst, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, J. Richardson, B. Law, S. Crowder, T. Longman, T. Field, and T. Caslon, 1760 |
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Pagina viii
... itself becomes a just subject of fatire , when it is the confequence of vice , pro- digality , or neglect of one's lawful calling ; for then it increases the public burden , fills the ftreets and highways with Robbers , and the garrets ...
... itself becomes a just subject of fatire , when it is the confequence of vice , pro- digality , or neglect of one's lawful calling ; for then it increases the public burden , fills the ftreets and highways with Robbers , and the garrets ...
Pagina x
... itself is , or ought to be , a pleasure ; but because it is juft to undeceive and vindicate the honeft and un- pretending part of mankind from impofition , because particular intereft ought to yield to ge- neral , and a great number who ...
... itself is , or ought to be , a pleasure ; but because it is juft to undeceive and vindicate the honeft and un- pretending part of mankind from impofition , because particular intereft ought to yield to ge- neral , and a great number who ...
Pagina liv
... itself to be the work of our Author , when his faculties were in full vigour and perfection ; at that exact time when years have ripened the Judgment , without diminishing the Imagination : which , by good Critics is held to be ...
... itself to be the work of our Author , when his faculties were in full vigour and perfection ; at that exact time when years have ripened the Judgment , without diminishing the Imagination : which , by good Critics is held to be ...
Pagina lix
... itself ; and to place that support in the refources which proceed from a confcious rectitude of Will . - And are the advantages of Vanity , when arifing to the a Si un Heros Poetique doit etre un honete homme . Boffu , du Poeme Epique ...
... itself ; and to place that support in the refources which proceed from a confcious rectitude of Will . - And are the advantages of Vanity , when arifing to the a Si un Heros Poetique doit etre un honete homme . Boffu , du Poeme Epique ...
Pagina lx
... itself in every limb ; while its correfpondent virtue in the mock Hero , is , that fame Courage all collected into the FACE . And as Power , when drawn together , must needs have more force and spirit than when dif- perfed , we ...
... itself in every limb ; while its correfpondent virtue in the mock Hero , is , that fame Courage all collected into the FACE . And as Power , when drawn together , must needs have more force and spirit than when dif- perfed , we ...
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Pagina 262 - As Fancy opens the quick springs of Sense, We ply the Memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit, and double chain on chain; Confine the thought, to exercise the breath; And keep them in the pale of Words till death.
Pagina xxiv - That wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn.
Pagina 211 - My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho' deep, yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Pagina 236 - The person who acted Polly, till then obscure, became all at Once the favourite of the town; her pictures were engraved, and sold in great numbers; her life written, books of letters and...
Pagina 317 - Night primaeval and of Chaos old ! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus
Pagina 277 - We only furnish what he cannot use, Or wed to what he must divorce, a muse: Full in the midst of Euclid dip at once, And petrify a genius to a dunce: Or set on metaphysic ground to prance, Show all his paces, not a step advance.
Pagina 245 - The moon-struck prophet felt the madding hour : Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out order, and extinguish light, Of dull and venal a new world to mould, And bring Saturnian days of lead and gold.
Pagina 100 - Should Dennis publish, you had stabb'd your Brother, Lampoon'd your Monarch, or debauch'd your Mother ; Say, what revenge on Dennis can be had ? Too dull for laughter, for reply too mad : On one so poor you cannot take the law; On one so old your sword you scorn to draw : Uncag'd then let the harmless monster rage, Secure in dulness, madness, want, and age.
Pagina 96 - In merry old England it once was a rule, The King had his Poet, and also his Fool : But now we're so frugal, I'd have you to know it, That Cibber can serve both for Fool and for Poet.
Pagina 328 - ... persons and names being utterly secret and obscure. ' This gave Mr. Pope the thought that he had now...