The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Comp. from Original Manuscripts; with a Critical Essay on His Writings and GeniusC. Bathurst, 1769 - 578 páginas |
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... instances , where the writer hath been indebted to others , more especially in what he hath borrowed from the Commentary and Notes , he hath , for the most part , followed the very words of the author , from whom the paffages are taken ...
... instances , where the writer hath been indebted to others , more especially in what he hath borrowed from the Commentary and Notes , he hath , for the most part , followed the very words of the author , from whom the paffages are taken ...
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... instances gives a peculiar beauty to the imagery ; as in the follow- ing couplet describing the fummer season : the scene is by a river fide ; and the time of the day , noon . " Where dancing fun - beams on the waters play'd , “ And ...
... instances gives a peculiar beauty to the imagery ; as in the follow- ing couplet describing the fummer season : the scene is by a river fide ; and the time of the day , noon . " Where dancing fun - beams on the waters play'd , “ And ...
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... instance , that though , speak- ing of old FATHER THAMES , the trite and ob- vious infignia of a river god are attributed to him , yet there is one circumstance in his ap- pearance highly picturesque , which is 3 His fea - green mantle ...
... instance , that though , speak- ing of old FATHER THAMES , the trite and ob- vious infignia of a river god are attributed to him , yet there is one circumstance in his ap- pearance highly picturesque , which is 3 His fea - green mantle ...
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... instances they only expofed their want of learning , taste , and judgment : and their works , with them- felves , had been long ago configned to oblivion , had not our poet taken a pride to collect them as they rose aloft in thin clouds ...
... instances they only expofed their want of learning , taste , and judgment : and their works , with them- felves , had been long ago configned to oblivion , had not our poet taken a pride to collect them as they rose aloft in thin clouds ...
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... instances in the advantage of superior parts , " In Parts fuperior what advantage lies ? " Tell ( for You can ) what is it to be wise ? " ' Tis but to know how little can be known ; " To fee all others faults , and feel our own ...
... instances in the advantage of superior parts , " In Parts fuperior what advantage lies ? " Tell ( for You can ) what is it to be wise ? " ' Tis but to know how little can be known ; " To fee all others faults , and feel our own ...
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AARON HILL addreffed admirable affured againſt anſwer beautiful becauſe beft beſt cenfure character compofition critic Dean Swift defcribed defcription defign defire difplayed Dunciad Effay effayift epiftle ev'ry excellent expreffed fafe faid fame fatire fays feems fenfe fenfibility fentiments ferve feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince fincere firft firſt fome foon fpeaking fpirit friendſhip ftate ftill ftriking ftrong fubject fublime fuch fuperior fuppofed fure genius himſelf honour Iliad illuftrated imagination inftance itſelf John Searl judgment juft juſt laft laſt learned lefs letter likewife Lord Lord Bolingbroke merit mind moft moral moſt muft muſt myſelf nature never nevertheleſs numbers obferves occafion paffage paffed paffion perfon piece pleaſed pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry POPE POPE's prefent profe publiſhed purpoſe racter raiſe reafon refpect ridicule ſay ſcene ſeems ſpeak tafte thefe themſelves theſe lines thofe thoſe thought tion tranflation uſe verfe virtue whofe writings
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Página 265 - Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge Thy foe. If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way...
Página 256 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
Página 231 - With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and...
Página 80 - She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For, as in bodies, thus in souls we find, What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Página 298 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ; Enough, that Virtue fill'd the space between ; Prov'd by the ends of being, to have been.
Página 229 - But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at ev'ry pore? Or quick effluvia darting thro' the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain?
Página 116 - He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts...
Página 239 - Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod; The state of Nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man.
Página 231 - KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest...
Página 226 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.