The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... Grace the Duke of BUCKINGHAM 54 A prologue to a play for Mr. DENNIS's benefit in 1733 , when he was old , blind , and in great di- firefs , a little before his death 55 MACER , a character 57 To Mr. JOHN MOORE , author of the celebrated ...
... Grace the Duke of BUCKINGHAM 54 A prologue to a play for Mr. DENNIS's benefit in 1733 , when he was old , blind , and in great di- firefs , a little before his death 55 MACER , a character 57 To Mr. JOHN MOORE , author of the celebrated ...
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... Grace cup ferv'd with all decorum : Each willing to be pleas'd , and please , And ev❜n the very Dogs at ease ! 140 Here no man prates . of idle things , How this or that Italian fings , A Neighbour's Madness , or his Spouse's , Or ...
... Grace cup ferv'd with all decorum : Each willing to be pleas'd , and please , And ev❜n the very Dogs at ease ! 140 Here no man prates . of idle things , How this or that Italian fings , A Neighbour's Madness , or his Spouse's , Or ...
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... cadit lingua filentio ? Nocturnis te ego fomniis Jam captum teneo , jam volucrem fequor Te per gramina Martii Campi , té per aquas , dure , volubiles . ! Then shall thy Form the Marble grace , ( Thy 38 Book IV . IMITATIONS.
... cadit lingua filentio ? Nocturnis te ego fomniis Jam captum teneo , jam volucrem fequor Te per gramina Martii Campi , té per aquas , dure , volubiles . ! Then shall thy Form the Marble grace , ( Thy 38 Book IV . IMITATIONS.
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... Grace and Mufe fhall throng , Exalt the dance , or animate the fong ; There Youths and Nymphs , in confort gay , Shall hail the rifing , close the parting day . With me , alas ! those joys are o'er ; For me , the vernal garlands bloom ...
... Grace and Mufe fhall throng , Exalt the dance , or animate the fong ; There Youths and Nymphs , in confort gay , Shall hail the rifing , close the parting day . With me , alas ! those joys are o'er ; For me , the vernal garlands bloom ...
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... grace with thy lov'd Guido's air , Carracci's strength , Correggio's fofter line , Paulo's free ftroke , and Titian's warmth divine . How finish'd with illustrious toil appears This fmall , well - polish'd Gem , the work of years ! Yet ...
... grace with thy lov'd Guido's air , Carracci's strength , Correggio's fofter line , Paulo's free ftroke , and Titian's warmth divine . How finish'd with illustrious toil appears This fmall , well - polish'd Gem , the work of years ! Yet ...
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Page 328 - We shall hereby extenuate many faults which are his, and clear him from the imputation of many which are not...
Page 299 - If a council be called, or a battle fought, you are not coldly informed of what was said or done as from a third person; the reader is hurried out of himself by the force of the poet's imagination, and turns in one place to a hearer, in another to a spectator.
Page 323 - However, had he translated the whole work, I would no more have attempted Homer after him than Virgil, his Version of whom (notwithstanding some human errors) is the most noble and spirited translation I know in any language.
Page 299 - If some things are too luxuriant it is owing to the richness of the soil; and if others are not arrived to perfection or maturity, it is only because they are overrun and oppressed by those of a stronger nature.
Page 44 - ... twixt reading and Bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary Tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon; Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire, Hum half a tune, tell stories to the squire; Up to her godly garret after sev'n, There starve and pray, for that's the way to heav'n.
Page 307 - Aristotle had reason to say, he was the only poet who had found out living words ; there are in him more daring figures and metaphors than in any good author whatever. An arrow is impatient to be on the wing, a weapon thirsts to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like.
Page 346 - I will conclude by saying of Shakespear, that with all his faults, and with all the irregularity of his drama, one may look upon his works, in comparison of those that are more...
Page 339 - ... till after his death. The whole number of genuine plays, which we have been able to find printed in his lifetime, amounts but to eleven.
Page 12 - And that they ne'er consider'd yet. ' Good Mr. Dean, go change your gown, Let my lord know you're come to town.
Page 293 - ... masters, being wholly unconfined, and painting at pleasure, may be thought to have given a full idea of what they esteemed most excellent in this way. These (one may observe) consist entirely of the useful part of horticulture, fruit-trees, herbs, water, &c.