Observations on Popeauthor, 1796 - 348 páginas |
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Página ix
... poetical inventors , who preceded him , may be moft obviously inftituted from thefe performances . But I thus pronounce , rather in compliance with popular opinion , than in con- formity to my own conception of the fubject , and , as I ...
... poetical inventors , who preceded him , may be moft obviously inftituted from thefe performances . But I thus pronounce , rather in compliance with popular opinion , than in con- formity to my own conception of the fubject , and , as I ...
Página xiii
... poetical produc- tions within my knowledge , none are so happily diverfified with thefe fallies of technical vivacity as the fatiric dialogues of Pope , and various paffages in the Dunciad . But perfpicuity may feem to require a ...
... poetical produc- tions within my knowledge , none are so happily diverfified with thefe fallies of technical vivacity as the fatiric dialogues of Pope , and various paffages in the Dunciad . But perfpicuity may feem to require a ...
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... ! Attend the Mufe , tho ' low her numbers be ; She fings of friendship , and the fings to thee . The word rapture as fignificative of infpired phrenzy , or or poetical enthusiasm , is incomparably more appropriate than Spirit ON POPE .
... ! Attend the Mufe , tho ' low her numbers be ; She fings of friendship , and the fings to thee . The word rapture as fignificative of infpired phrenzy , or or poetical enthusiasm , is incomparably more appropriate than Spirit ON POPE .
Página 10
Gilbert Wakefield. or poetical enthusiasm , is incomparably more appropriate than Spirit , which will fufficiently appear by Butler's re- prefentation of the widow's influence on Hudibras : And , if imprison'd air efcapt her , It puff'd ...
Gilbert Wakefield. or poetical enthusiasm , is incomparably more appropriate than Spirit , which will fufficiently appear by Butler's re- prefentation of the widow's influence on Hudibras : And , if imprison'd air efcapt her , It puff'd ...
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... tho ' low her numbers be ; She fings of friendship , and the fings to thee . The word rapture as fignificative of infpired phrenzy , or or poetical enthusiasm , is incomparably more appropriate than Spirit ON POPE . 9.
... tho ' low her numbers be ; She fings of friendship , and the fings to thee . The word rapture as fignificative of infpired phrenzy , or or poetical enthusiasm , is incomparably more appropriate than Spirit ON POPE . 9.
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Página 215 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name...
Página 265 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Página 226 - Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
Página 279 - This pencil take (she said) whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy ; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Página 195 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heaven pursue.
Página 51 - Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome, (The world's just wonder, and ev'n thine, O Rome!) No single parts unequally surprise, All comes united to th' admiring eyes; No monstrous height, or breadth or length appear; The whole at once is bold and regular.
Página 161 - 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 14 - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Página 286 - Near these a Nursery erects its head. Where queens are form'd, and future heroes bred ; Where unfledg'd actors learn to laugh and cry, Where infant punks their tender voices try, And little Maximins the gods defy.
Página 320 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...