Satires and EpistlesClarendon Press, 1881 - 164 páginas |
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... authors throughout for the French examples . And in his translation of Juvenal , Dryden could not resist introducing Shadwell's name . But Rochester ( died 1680 ) , in what he calls an Allusion to the tenth Sat. of first Book of Horace ...
... authors throughout for the French examples . And in his translation of Juvenal , Dryden could not resist introducing Shadwell's name . But Rochester ( died 1680 ) , in what he calls an Allusion to the tenth Sat. of first Book of Horace ...
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... author for the indulgence of a jealousy which it is hard for human nature to stifle , what shall we say of the successful man who turns round upon his yet struggling fellows , insults their misery , and tramples on them , because he has ...
... author for the indulgence of a jealousy which it is hard for human nature to stifle , what shall we say of the successful man who turns round upon his yet struggling fellows , insults their misery , and tramples on them , because he has ...
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... authors , as men , were as good and honest men as Pope himself . It is the business of criticism to condemn a bad book . Pope's taste might have been usefully employed , like Boileau's , in signalising pretentious poetry , and exposing ...
... authors , as men , were as good and honest men as Pope himself . It is the business of criticism to condemn a bad book . Pope's taste might have been usefully employed , like Boileau's , in signalising pretentious poetry , and exposing ...
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... authors , whose incapacity is not greater than their insincerity , and of whom I have always found , if I may quote myself , " That each bad author is as bad a friend . " But the thin disguise of offended virtue is too often a cloak for ...
... authors , whose incapacity is not greater than their insincerity , and of whom I have always found , if I may quote myself , " That each bad author is as bad a friend . " But the thin disguise of offended virtue is too often a cloak for ...
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... conscience . He did indeed rouse the wrath of fashionable authors , and of grandees . He refused homage alike to false taste in writing , and to the noble patrons of that false taste . But he did it in tones of manly 16 INTRODUCTORY .
... conscience . He did indeed rouse the wrath of fashionable authors , and of grandees . He refused homage alike to false taste in writing , and to the noble patrons of that false taste . But he did it in tones of manly 16 INTRODUCTORY .
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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.