The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseC. Bathurst, 1787 |
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Page 138
... Criticks ; fince their Laws ( though they might be good ) have ever been flackly executed , and their Precepts ( however ftrict ) obeyed only by fits , and by a very small number . At the fame time , I intend to do juftice upon our ...
... Criticks ; fince their Laws ( though they might be good ) have ever been flackly executed , and their Precepts ( however ftrict ) obeyed only by fits , and by a very small number . At the fame time , I intend to do juftice upon our ...
Page 137
... Criticks , and Orators , have compiled and digefted the Art of ancient Poefy , there hath not arifen among us one perfon fo publick - fpirited , as to perform the like for the Modern . Although it is univerfally known , that our every ...
... Criticks , and Orators , have compiled and digefted the Art of ancient Poefy , there hath not arifen among us one perfon fo publick - fpirited , as to perform the like for the Modern . Although it is univerfally known , that our every ...
Page 138
... Criticks ; fince their Laws ( though they might be good ) have ever been flackly executed , and their Precepts ( however ftrict ) obeyed only by fits , and by a very small number . At the fame time , I intend to do juftice upon our ...
... Criticks ; fince their Laws ( though they might be good ) have ever been flackly executed , and their Precepts ( however ftrict ) obeyed only by fits , and by a very small number . At the fame time , I intend to do juftice upon our ...
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... Criticks and Authors . CHA P. V. Of the true Genius for the Profound , and by what it is constituted . AND I will venture to lay it down , as the first Maxim + and Corner - Stone of this our Art , that whoever would excel therein , muft ...
... Criticks and Authors . CHA P. V. Of the true Genius for the Profound , and by what it is constituted . AND I will venture to lay it down , as the first Maxim + and Corner - Stone of this our Art , that whoever would excel therein , muft ...
Page 154
... Criticks , " Thus Phoebus thro ' the Zodiack takes his way , And amid Monsters rifes into day . " What a peculiarity is here of invention ? The Au- thor's pencil , like the wand of Circe , turns all into monsters at a stroke . A great ...
... Criticks , " Thus Phoebus thro ' the Zodiack takes his way , And amid Monsters rifes into day . " What a peculiarity is here of invention ? The Au- thor's pencil , like the wand of Circe , turns all into monsters at a stroke . A great ...
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Page 278 - When we read Homer, we ought to reflect that we are reading the...
Page 214 - 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 154 - Cuzzona. * fineft fineft thread. There are Amplifiers who can extend half a dozen thin thoughts over a whole Folio...
Page 8 - How think you of our friend the Dean? I wonder what some people mean; My lord and he are grown so great, Always together tete-d-tete. What ! they admire him for his jokes — See but the fortune of some folks...
Page 291 - That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me; of whom it is hard to say whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing to his generosity or his example...
Page 280 - Homer, and that of his work ; but when they come to assign the causes of the great reputation of the Iliad, they found it upon the ignorance of his times and the prejudice of...
Page 298 - Players are just such judges of what is right, as tailors are of what is graceful. And in this view it will be but fair to allow, that most of our author's faults are less to be ascribed to his wrong judgment as a poet, than to his right judgment as a player.
Page 187 - Here therefore, in the name of all our Brethren, let me return our sincere and humble Thanks to the most August Mr.
Page 52 - Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
Page 281 - ... enchantment. Homer not only appears the inventor of poetry, but excels all the inventors of other arts in this, that he has swallowed up the honour of those who succeeded him.