The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers, F.S.A. and Others. To which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author, Volume 4J. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son ... [and 24 others], 1806 |
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... write on ; namely , to the fufpicions and the displeasure of a Court ; who are made to believe , he is always writing ; or at leaft to the foolish criticisms of court - fycophants , who pretend to find him , by his ftyle , in the ...
... write on ; namely , to the fufpicions and the displeasure of a Court ; who are made to believe , he is always writing ; or at leaft to the foolish criticisms of court - fycophants , who pretend to find him , by his ftyle , in the ...
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... writing , Pope is unrivalled ; the Imitation has all the air of an original , and is at once lively , pointed , and happy . One Imitation from Horace has been , for obvious reafons , re- jected . I must ever feel regret , that my late ...
... writing , Pope is unrivalled ; the Imitation has all the air of an original , and is at once lively , pointed , and happy . One Imitation from Horace has been , for obvious reafons , re- jected . I must ever feel regret , that my late ...
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... write , if friends , they read me dead . Seiz'd and ty'd down to judge , how wretched I ! Who can't be filent , and who will not lie : To laugh , were want of goodness and of grace , And to be grave , exceeds all Pow'r of face . I fit ...
... write , if friends , they read me dead . Seiz'd and ty'd down to judge , how wretched I ! Who can't be filent , and who will not lie : To laugh , were want of goodness and of grace , And to be grave , exceeds all Pow'r of face . I fit ...
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... write a Journal , or he'll turn Divine . " Blefs me ! a packet , - " " Tis a stranger fues , " A Virgin Tragedy , an Orphan Muse . " If I diflike it , " Furies , death and rage ! " If I approve , " Commend it to the Stage . " There ...
... write a Journal , or he'll turn Divine . " Blefs me ! a packet , - " " Tis a stranger fues , " A Virgin Tragedy , an Orphan Muse . " If I diflike it , " Furies , death and rage ! " If I approve , " Commend it to the Stage . " There ...
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... write , and I am twice as tall ; But foes like thefe - P . One Flatt'rer's worse than all . Of all mad creatures , if the learn'd are right , 105 It is the flaver kills , and not the bite . NOTES . A fool VER 97. And has not Colley fil ...
... write , and I am twice as tall ; But foes like thefe - P . One Flatt'rer's worse than all . Of all mad creatures , if the learn'd are right , 105 It is the flaver kills , and not the bite . NOTES . A fool VER 97. And has not Colley fil ...
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Page 45 - d by ev'ry quill ; Fed with soft dedication all day long, Horace and he went hand in hand in song.
Page 119 - For gain, not glory, wing'd his roving flight, And grew Immortal in his own despite.
Page 36 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 56 - A Cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust; Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Page 165 - Nassau to Kneller's hand decreed To fix him graceful on the bounding Steed; So well in paint and stone they judg'd of merit: But Kings in Wit may want discerning spirit.
Page 391 - 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 56 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way, Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad!
Page 65 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Page 309 - I touch thee ! but with honest zeal, To rouse the watchmen of the public weal, To virtue's work provoke the tardy hall, And goad the prelate, slumbering in his stall.
Page 353 - For we find thofe authors who have been offended at the literal notion of the Gods, conftantly laying their accufation againft Homer as the chief fupport of it. But whatever caufe there might be to blame his machines in a philofophical...