The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson, Volum 41812 |
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... dull : and what it had no sooner said , but they themselves were at great pains to procure , or even purchase room in the prints , to testify under their hands to the truth of it . I should still have been silent , if either I had seen ...
... dull : and what it had no sooner said , but they themselves were at great pains to procure , or even purchase room in the prints , to testify under their hands to the truth of it . I should still have been silent , if either I had seen ...
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... , ought never to be made so , in complaisance to those who are . Accordingly we find that in all ages , all vain pretenders , were they ever so poor , or ever so dull , have been constantly the topics of the most 8 A LETTER.
... , ought never to be made so , in complaisance to those who are . Accordingly we find that in all ages , all vain pretenders , were they ever so poor , or ever so dull , have been constantly the topics of the most 8 A LETTER.
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Alexander Pope. dull , have been constantly the topics of the most can- did satirists , from the Codrus of JUVENAL to the Damon of Boileau . Having mentioned BOILEAU , the greatest poet and most judicious critic of his age and country ...
Alexander Pope. dull , have been constantly the topics of the most can- did satirists , from the Codrus of JUVENAL to the Damon of Boileau . Having mentioned BOILEAU , the greatest poet and most judicious critic of his age and country ...
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... dull duty of an editor . In this project let him lend the bookseller his name ( for a competent sum of money ) to promote the credit of an exorbitant sub- scription . " Gentle reader , be pleased to cast thine eye on the proposal below ...
... dull duty of an editor . In this project let him lend the bookseller his name ( for a competent sum of money ) to promote the credit of an exorbitant sub- scription . " Gentle reader , be pleased to cast thine eye on the proposal below ...
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... dull and unjust abuse of a person who wrote in defence of our religion and constitution , and who has been dead many years . " This seemeth also most untrue ; it being known to divers that these memoirs were writ- ten at the seat of the ...
... dull and unjust abuse of a person who wrote in defence of our religion and constitution , and who has been dead many years . " This seemeth also most untrue ; it being known to divers that these memoirs were writ- ten at the seat of the ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 193 - For thee we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With all such reading as was never read : For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write. about it, goddess, and about it : So spins the silk-worm small its slender store, And labours till it clouds itself all o'er.
Pàgina 219 - Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus
Pàgina 191 - The critic Eye, that microscope of Wit, Sees hairs and pores, examines bit by bit...
Pàgina 294 - How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue ! How sweet the periods, neither said, nor sung! Still break the benches, Henley ! with thy strain, While Sherlock, Hare, and Gibson preach in vain. Oh, great restorer of the good old stage, Preacher at once, and zany of thy age ! Oh, worthy thou of Egypt's wise abodes, A decent priest, where monkeys were the gods...
Pàgina 278 - To where Fleet-ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood.
Pàgina 224 - This gave Mr Pope the thought, that he had now some opportunity of doing good, by detecting and dragging into light these common enemies of mankind; since to invalidate this universal slander, it sufficed to show what contemptible men were the authors of it.
Pàgina 259 - There motley images her fancy strike, Figures ill pair'd, and similes unlike, She sees a mob of metaphors advance, Pleased with the madness of the mazy dance : How Tragedy and Comedy embrace ; How Farce and Epic get a jumbled race ; How Time himself stands still at her command, Realms shift their place, and ocean turns to land.
Pàgina 158 - Till one wide conflagration swallows all. Thence a new world, to nature's laws unknown, Breaks out refulgent, with a heaven its own: Another Cynthia her new journey runs, And other planets circle other suns. The forests dance, the rivers upward rise, Whales sport in woods, and dolphins in the skies; And last, to give the whole creation grace, Lo! one vast egg produces human race. Joy fills his soul, joy innocent of thought; What power, he cries, what power these wonders wrought?
Pàgina 189 - Where Bentley late tempestuous wont to sport In troubled waters, but now sleeps in port.
Pàgina 349 - ... nature at one glance, and to be the only author that gives ground for a very new opinion, that the philosopher, and even the man of the world, may be born, as well as the poet. It must be owned, that with all these great excellencies, he has almost as great defects ; and that as he has certainly written better, so he has perhaps written worse, than any other.