The Works of Alexander Pope: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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Sivu 87
... Virgil too . UND Another , on the fame . NDER this Marble , or under this Sill , Or under this Turf , or e'en what they will ; Whatever an Heir , or a Friend in his stead , Or any good creature , shall lay o'er my head , " Lies one who ...
... Virgil too . UND Another , on the fame . NDER this Marble , or under this Sill , Or under this Turf , or e'en what they will ; Whatever an Heir , or a Friend in his stead , Or any good creature , shall lay o'er my head , " Lies one who ...
Sivu 101
... Cradle without hurting him , but were very troublesome to all in the room * Virgil's Laurel . Donat . + Plato , Lucan , etc. P. P. H 3 befides : befides : This feemed a certain prefage of the effects MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS . 101.
... Cradle without hurting him , but were very troublesome to all in the room * Virgil's Laurel . Donat . + Plato , Lucan , etc. P. P. H 3 befides : befides : This feemed a certain prefage of the effects MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS . 101.
Sivu 140
... Virgil , Horace , and Terence ; conclu- ding , that , if the most correct Authors could be fo ferved with any reputation to the Critick , the amendment and alteration of all the reft would eafi- ly follow ; whereby a new , a vaft , nay ...
... Virgil , Horace , and Terence ; conclu- ding , that , if the most correct Authors could be fo ferved with any reputation to the Critick , the amendment and alteration of all the reft would eafi- ly follow ; whereby a new , a vaft , nay ...
Sivu 187
... Virgil is faid to have read Ennius , out of his dunghill to draw gold , fo may our author read Shakespear , Milton , and Dryden for the contrary end , to bury their gold in his own dunghil . A true Genius , when he finds any thing lofty ...
... Virgil is faid to have read Ennius , out of his dunghill to draw gold , fo may our author read Shakespear , Milton , and Dryden for the contrary end , to bury their gold in his own dunghil . A true Genius , when he finds any thing lofty ...
Sivu 217
... Virgil , and change the names as occafion ferves . For the MACHINES . Take of Deities , male and female , as many as you can use : Separate them into two equal parts , and keep Jupiter in the middle ; Let Juno put him in a ferment , and ...
... Virgil , and change the names as occafion ferves . For the MACHINES . Take of Deities , male and female , as many as you can use : Separate them into two equal parts , and keep Jupiter in the middle ; Let Juno put him in a ferment , and ...
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Sivu 290 - Homer makes us hearers, and Virgil leaves us readers. If in the next place we take a view of the sentiments, the same presiding faculty is eminent in the sublimity and spirit of his thoughts. Longinus has given his opinion, that it was in this part Homer principally excelled.
Sivu 81 - Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
Sivu 196 - Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy!
Sivu 280 - I know an eminent cook, who beautified his country seat with a coronation dinner in greens ; where you see the champion flourishing on horseback at one end of the table, and the queen in perpetual youth at the other.
Sivu 309 - ... to consider him attentively in comparison with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns.
Sivu 284 - 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 327 - Prose from verse they did not know, and they accordingly printed one for the other throughout the volume.
Sivu 288 - Every one has something so singularly his own, that no painter could have distinguished them more by their features, than the poet has by their manners.
Sivu 289 - Idomeneus a plain, direct soldier ; in Sarpedon, a gallant and generous one. Nor is this judicious and...
Sivu 331 - 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...