The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Comp. from Original Manuscripts; with a Critical Essay on His Writings and GeniusC. Bathurst, 1769 - 578 sivua |
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... received from thefe indiffe- rent tranflations , were fo powerful , that he ever after continued to speak of them with pleasure . He did not remain long , however , under the tuition of the priest ; he was sent from him , in a little ...
... received from thefe indiffe- rent tranflations , were fo powerful , that he ever after continued to speak of them with pleasure . He did not remain long , however , under the tuition of the priest ; he was sent from him , in a little ...
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... received very little benefit , having made no farther progrefs under him , than that of being able to conftrue a little of Tully's Offices . Our poet was often heard to say , that he could never follow any thing which he did not pursue ...
... received very little benefit , having made no farther progrefs under him , than that of being able to conftrue a little of Tully's Offices . Our poet was often heard to say , that he could never follow any thing which he did not pursue ...
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... received in an ill fenfe , is become odious , because the office hath been abused by half learned or en- vious witlings ; who have been curious to de- tect blemishes , forgetting the other and more pleafing task of a critic , which is ...
... received in an ill fenfe , is become odious , because the office hath been abused by half learned or en- vious witlings ; who have been curious to de- tect blemishes , forgetting the other and more pleafing task of a critic , which is ...
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... by Steele , ( who received it from an unknown hand . ) Nay all at Button's , confidered it as fuch , except Mr. Addifon , who faw into the joke immediately ; and and the next time he met Mr. POPE , told 44 THE LIFE OF.
... by Steele , ( who received it from an unknown hand . ) Nay all at Button's , confidered it as fuch , except Mr. Addifon , who faw into the joke immediately ; and and the next time he met Mr. POPE , told 44 THE LIFE OF.
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... received , that he made it more con- fiderable the next year , by the addition of the Machinery of the Sylphs , and extended it to five cantos , when it was printed , with an elegant letter to Mrs. Fermor , which is prefixed to the ...
... received , that he made it more con- fiderable the next year , by the addition of the Machinery of the Sylphs , and extended it to five cantos , when it was printed , with an elegant letter to Mrs. Fermor , which is prefixed to the ...
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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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Sivu 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...
Sivu 256 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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?
Sivu 116 - He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts...
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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.