Satires and EpistlesClarendon Press, 1881 - 164 páginas |
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... Queen Anne are in Pope's mind , the personages of the court of George II . and Caroline under his pen . Pope's Satires and Epistles certainly do not equal Lord Hervey's Memoirs in truth , or fulness and development of detail . But they ...
... Queen Anne are in Pope's mind , the personages of the court of George II . and Caroline under his pen . Pope's Satires and Epistles certainly do not equal Lord Hervey's Memoirs in truth , or fulness and development of detail . But they ...
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... Queen Caroline , and Sir R. Walpole , as Persius was said , by his biographer Probus , to have meant Nero , Pers . Sat. 1. 119 , Dryden's transl .: The reeds shall tell you what the poet fears , King Midas has a snout and ass's ears ...
... Queen Caroline , and Sir R. Walpole , as Persius was said , by his biographer Probus , to have meant Nero , Pers . Sat. 1. 119 , Dryden's transl .: The reeds shall tell you what the poet fears , King Midas has a snout and ass's ears ...
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... Queen's favour , and even a valetudinary diet , are travestied into the most odious defects and offences . ' But it ... Queen Caroline , who governed George II . Familiar , used often in this sense by Milton , Par . Lost , 2. 219 , 761 ...
... Queen's favour , and even a valetudinary diet , are travestied into the most odious defects and offences . ' But it ... Queen Caroline , who governed George II . Familiar , used often in this sense by Milton , Par . Lost , 2. 219 , 761 ...
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... Queen Caroline . ' 1. 375. As once for Lewis , Boileau and Racine . Boileau , Ep . 10. 107 : Que ce Roi , dont le nom fait trembler tant de Rois • Voulut bien que ma main craionnât ses exploits . ' Boileau was associated with Racine for ...
... Queen Caroline . ' 1. 375. As once for Lewis , Boileau and Racine . Boileau , Ep . 10. 107 : Que ce Roi , dont le nom fait trembler tant de Rois • Voulut bien que ma main craionnât ses exploits . ' Boileau was associated with Racine for ...
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... Queen Caroline's Librarian at Richmond Gardens . See Sat. and Ep . 5. 352 , note . note . you and me , i . e . Theobald and Cibber . Cf. Sat. and Ep . 5. 352 , 1. 143. My dear Tibullus ! Cf. Reimer , Reime Dich ( 1763 ) : ' Nenne diesen ...
... Queen Caroline's Librarian at Richmond Gardens . See Sat. and Ep . 5. 352 , note . note . you and me , i . e . Theobald and Cibber . Cf. Sat. and Ep . 5. 352 , 1. 143. My dear Tibullus ! Cf. Reimer , Reime Dich ( 1763 ) : ' Nenne diesen ...
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Página 30 - Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer...
Página 125 - With lust and violence the house of God? In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury, and outrage: And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Página 34 - 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.
Página 25 - Nine years !" cries he, who high in Drury-lane, Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before term ends, Oblig'd by hunger and request of friends : " The piece, you think, is incorrect? why take it ; I'm all submission ; what you'd have it, make it.
Página 24 - tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Página 36 - 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 awhile one parent from the sky...
Página 52 - Be but great, With praise or infamy leave that to fate; Get place and wealth — if possible with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.
Página 28 - I smiled ; if right, I kiss'd the rod. Pains, reading, study, are their just pretence, And all they want is spirit, taste, and sense.
Página 33 - That Fop, whose pride affects a patron's name, Yet absent, wounds an author's honest fame: Who can your merit selfishly approve, And show the sense of it without the love...
Página 146 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he ' had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech.