The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson, Volume 51812 |
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... rest , he attained so great a proficiency therein , that Grono- vious ingenuously confesses he durst not confer with this child in Greek at eight years old , and at four- teen he composed a tragedy in the same language , as the younger ...
... rest , he attained so great a proficiency therein , that Grono- vious ingenuously confesses he durst not confer with this child in Greek at eight years old , and at four- teen he composed a tragedy in the same language , as the younger ...
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... rest would eafily follow ; whereby a new , a vast , nay boundless field of glory would be opened to the true and abso- lute critic . This specimen on Virgil he has given us , in the Addenda to his Notes on the Dunciad . His Terence and ...
... rest would eafily follow ; whereby a new , a vast , nay boundless field of glory would be opened to the true and abso- lute critic . This specimen on Virgil he has given us , in the Addenda to his Notes on the Dunciad . His Terence and ...
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... rest . We are so much persuaded of the truth of this our hypothesis , that we have employed one of our members , a great virtuoso at Nuremberg , to make a sort of an hydraulick engine , in which a chemical liquor resembling blood , is ...
... rest . We are so much persuaded of the truth of this our hypothesis , that we have employed one of our members , a great virtuoso at Nuremberg , to make a sort of an hydraulick engine , in which a chemical liquor resembling blood , is ...
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... rest of those excellent lullabies of his com- postion . How prettily he asks the sheep to teach him to bleat ? y * Teach me to grieve with bleating moan , my sheep . Hear how a babe would reason on his nurse's death : શ That ever she ...
... rest of those excellent lullabies of his com- postion . How prettily he asks the sheep to teach him to bleat ? y * Teach me to grieve with bleating moan , my sheep . Hear how a babe would reason on his nurse's death : શ That ever she ...
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... rest to each author's own learning or practice . First of Panegyric : every man is honourable , who is so by law , custom , or title . The Publick are better judges of what is honourable than private men . The virtues of great men ...
... rest to each author's own learning or practice . First of Panegyric : every man is honourable , who is so by law , custom , or title . The Publick are better judges of what is honourable than private men . The virtues of great men ...
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Page 263 - Homer was the greater genius, Virgil the better artist. In one we most admire the man, in the other the work. Homer hurries and transports us with a commanding impetuosity, Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty : Homer scatters with a generous profusion, Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence...
Page 219 - 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.
Page 219 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; 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...
Page 259 - Arrow is impatient to be on the wing, a weapon thirsts to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like. Yet his expression is never too big for the sense, but justly great in proportion to it.
Page 214 - Hand, and mourn'd his captive Queen. He springs to Vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like Thunder on the prostrate Ace. The Nymph exulting fills with Shouts the Sky, The Walls, the Woods, and long Canals reply.
Page 210 - Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain; Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide: Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 'Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th...
Page 160 - Jerusalem with iniquity: the heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, "Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.
Page 251 - Judgment itself can at best but steal wisely : for Art is only like a prudent steward, that lives on managing the riches of Nature. Whatever praises may be given to works of judgment, there is not even a single beauty in them to which the invention must not contribute...
Page 106 - THE expression is adequate, when it is proportionably low to the profundity of the thought. It must not be always grammatical, lest it appear pedantic and ungentlemanly ; nor too clear, for fear it become vulgar; for obscurity bestows a cast of the wonderful, and throws an oracular dignity upon a piece which hath no meaning.
Page 270 - There is a graceful and dignified simplicity, as well as a bald and sordid one, which differ as much from each other as the air of a plain man from that of a sloven: it is one thing to be tricked up, and another not to be dressed at all. Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.