The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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Sivu 271
... Pastoral ; as his contention of Colin Clout and the Nightingale fhows with what exactness he hath imitated every line in Strada . 6. When I remarked it as a principal fault , to introduce fruits and flowers of a foreign growth , in ...
... Pastoral ; as his contention of Colin Clout and the Nightingale fhows with what exactness he hath imitated every line in Strada . 6. When I remarked it as a principal fault , to introduce fruits and flowers of a foreign growth , in ...
Sivu 272
... pastoral writer , in expreffing the fame thought , deviates into downright Poetry : Streph . In Spring the fields , in Autumn hills I love , At morn the plains , at noon the fhady grove , But Delia always ; forc'd from Delia's fight ...
... pastoral writer , in expreffing the fame thought , deviates into downright Poetry : Streph . In Spring the fields , in Autumn hills I love , At morn the plains , at noon the fhady grove , But Delia always ; forc'd from Delia's fight ...
Sivu 274
... pastoral of Philips with the fecond of his contemporary , and the fourth and fixth of the for- mer with the fourth and first of the latter ; where feveral parallel places will occur to every one . Having now shown fome parts , in which ...
... pastoral of Philips with the fecond of his contemporary , and the fourth and fixth of the for- mer with the fourth and first of the latter ; where feveral parallel places will occur to every one . Having now shown fome parts , in which ...
Sivu 277
... Pastoral . At the conclufion of this piece , the author re- conciles the Lovers , and ends the Eclogue the most fimply in the world : So Rager parted vor to vetch tha Kee , And vor her bucket in went Cicily . I am loth to show my ...
... Pastoral . At the conclufion of this piece , the author re- conciles the Lovers , and ends the Eclogue the most fimply in the world : So Rager parted vor to vetch tha Kee , And vor her bucket in went Cicily . I am loth to show my ...
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Sivu 328 - We shall hereby extenuate many faults which are his, and clear him from the imputation of many which are not...
Sivu 299 - If a council be called, or a battle fought, you are not coldly informed of what was said or done as from a third person; the reader is hurried out of himself by the force of the poet's imagination, and turns in one place to a hearer, in another to a spectator.
Sivu 323 - However, had he translated the whole work, I would no more have attempted Homer after him than Virgil, his Version of whom (notwithstanding some human errors) is the most noble and spirited translation I know in any language.
Sivu 299 - If some things are too luxuriant it is owing to the richness of the soil; and if others are not arrived to perfection or maturity, it is only because they are overrun and oppressed by those of a stronger nature.
Sivu 44 - ... twixt reading and Bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary Tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon; Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire, Hum half a tune, tell stories to the squire; Up to her godly garret after sev'n, There starve and pray, for that's the way to heav'n.
Sivu 307 - Aristotle had reason to say, he was the only poet who had found out living words ; there are in him more daring figures and metaphors than in any good author whatever. An arrow is impatient to be on the wing, a weapon thirsts to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like.
Sivu 346 - I will conclude by saying of Shakespear, that with all his faults, and with all the irregularity of his drama, one may look upon his works, in comparison of those that are more...
Sivu 339 - ... till after his death. The whole number of genuine plays, which we have been able to find printed in his lifetime, amounts but to eleven.
Sivu 12 - And that they ne'er consider'd yet. ' Good Mr. Dean, go change your gown, Let my lord know you're come to town.
Sivu 293 - ... masters, being wholly unconfined, and painting at pleasure, may be thought to have given a full idea of what they esteemed most excellent in this way. These (one may observe) consist entirely of the useful part of horticulture, fruit-trees, herbs, water, &c.