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Page 305
Nor is this judicious and astonishing diversity to be found only in the principal
quality which constitutes the main of each character , but even in the underparts
of it , to which he takes care to give a tincture of that principal one . For example ,
the ...
Nor is this judicious and astonishing diversity to be found only in the principal
quality which constitutes the main of each character , but even in the underparts
of it , to which he takes care to give a tincture of that principal one . For example ,
the ...
Page 310
I hope , in what has been said of Virgil , with regard to any of these heads , I have
no way derogated from his character . Nothing is more absurd or endless , than
the common method of comparing eminent writers by an opposition position of ...
I hope , in what has been said of Virgil , with regard to any of these heads , I have
no way derogated from his character . Nothing is more absurd or endless , than
the common method of comparing eminent writers by an opposition position of ...
Page 316
for not doing what he never designed ; as because Achilles is not as good and
perfect a prince as Æneas , when the very moral of his poem required a contrary
character : It is thus that Räpin judges in his comparison of Homer and Virgil .
for not doing what he never designed ; as because Achilles is not as good and
perfect a prince as Æneas , when the very moral of his poem required a contrary
character : It is thus that Räpin judges in his comparison of Homer and Virgil .
Page 330
To this life and variety of character , we must add the wonderful preservation of it ;
which is such throughout his Plays , that , had all the speeches been printed
without the very names of the perfons , I believe one might have applied them
with ...
To this life and variety of character , we must add the wonderful preservation of it ;
which is such throughout his Plays , that , had all the speeches been printed
without the very names of the perfons , I believe one might have applied them
with ...
Page 343
1 Some characters were confounded and mix'd , or two put into one , for want of a
competent number of actors . ... Shakespear introduces a kind of Master of the
revels called Philostrate ; all whose part is given to another character ( that of ...
1 Some characters were confounded and mix'd , or two put into one , for want of a
competent number of actors . ... Shakespear introduces a kind of Master of the
revels called Philostrate ; all whose part is given to another character ( that of ...
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Page 325 - ... to consider him attentively in comparison with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns.
Page 313 - Who can be so prejudiced in their favour as to magnify the felicity of those ages, when a spirit of revenge and cruelty, joined with the practice of rapine and robbery, reigned through the world ; when no mercy was...
Page 303 - How fertile will that imagination appear which was able to clothe all the properties of elements, the qualifications of the mind, the virtues and vices, in forms and persons, and to introduce them into actions agreeable to the nature of the things they shadowed?
Page 278 - I CANNOT think it extravagant to imagine that mankind are no less in proportion accountable for the ill use of their dominion over creatures of the lower rank of beings than for the exercise of tyranny over their own species.
Page 331 - ... something between penetration and felicity, he hits upon that particular point on which the bent of each argument turns, or the force of each motive depends.
Page 334 - ... upon the judgments of that body of men whereof he was a member. They have ever had a standard to themselves, upon other principles than those of Aristotle.
Page 310 - ... of a trumpet. They roll along as a plentiful river, always in motion, and always full ; while we are borne away by a tide of...
Page 289 - Nay, to that perfection is he arrived, that he stoops as he walks. The figure of the man is odd enough; he is a lively little creature, with long arms and legs : a spider is no ill emblem of him : he has been taken at a distance for a small windmill.
Page 300 - 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 45 - ... 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.
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| Title | The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volume 6 The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Alexander Pope Volume 6 of The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, William Warburton |
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| Editor | William Warburton |
| Publisher | J. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 15 Nov 2006 |
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