 Tis he, who gives my breast a thousand pains, Can make me feel each passion that he feigns; Enrage, compose, with more than magic art, With pity, and with terror, tear my heart; And snatch me, o'er the earth, or through the air, To Thebes, to Athens,...  Latin Classics ... - Page 206by William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1900Full view - About this book
 | John Hawkesworth - 1823 - 302 pages
...that he feigns; \ Enrage, compose, with more than magic art; With pity and with terror tear my hearf; And snatch me, o'er the earth or through the air, To Thebes, to Athens, when he will, and where. POPE. WRITERS of a mixed character, that abound in transcendent beauties and in gross imperfections,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...shook the stage, and made the people stare? Cato' s long wig, flower' d gown, and lacquer'd chair. / But not this part of the poetic state Alone deserves the favour of the great : Think of those authors,... | |
 | 1824 - 310 pages
...reach, Let me tor once presume t" instruct ihe times, To know the poet from the man of rhymes. 'T\a he who gives my breast a thousand pains, Can make...air, To Thebes, to Athens; when he will, and where. POPE. THE English writers of tragedy are possessed with a notion, that when they represent a virtuous... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 pages
...feigns ; Enrage, compose, with more than magic art, With pity, and with terror, tear my heart ; 345 And snatch me, o'er the earth, or through the air, To Thebes, to Athens, when he will, and where. pBut not this part of the poetic state, Alone, deserves the favour of the great : NOTES. poet of this... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 498 pages
...feigns ; Enrage, compose, with more than magic art, With pity, and with terror, tear my heart ; 345 And snatch me, o'er the earth, or through the air, To Thebes, to Athens, when he will, and where. pBut not this part of the poetic state, Alone, deserves the favour of the great : NOTES. poet of this... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...'Tis he who gives my breast a thousand pains, Can make me feel each passion that he feigns : Eurage, compose, with more than magic art; With pity, and...air, To Thebes, to Athens, when he will, and where. But not this part of the poetic state Alone, deserves the favour of the great : Think of those aathors,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...Enrage, eompose, with more than magie art ; With pity, and with terror, tear my heart ; And snateh AH that I dread is leaving you behind ! Rather than so, ah ! let me still survive, And But not this part of the poetie state Alone deserves the favour of the great : Think of those authors,... | |
 | 1825 - 424 pages
...which an inspired dramatist seeks to enchain the heart and mind of the spectator — • " To snatch us o'er the earth, or through the air, To Thebes, to Athens, when he will, and where." Passion, the vivifying principle, the primum mobile of the tragic muse, is, in Masaniello, but feebly... | |
 | General reader - 1827 - 246 pages
...'Tis he who gives my heart a thousand pains, Can make me feel each passion that he feigns; JSnrage, compose with more than magic art, With pity and with...air, To Thebes, to Athens, when he will and where. Horace imitated by Pope, Epitaph on Mrs. Higgins, of Weston. Laurels may flourish round the conqu'ror's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...malignl} arts I cannot reach, Let me for once presume to instruct the times To know the poet from tfie man of rhymes ; 'Tis he who gives my breast a thousand...air, To Thebes, to Athens, when he will, and where. But not this part of the poetir state Alone, deserves the favour of the great : Think of those authors,... | |
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