The Works of Alexander Pope: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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Sivu 23
... white , the Carpet red : The Guests withdrawn had left the Treat , And down the Mice fate , tête à tête . Our Courtier walks from difh to dish , Taftes for his Friend of Fowl and Fish ; Tells all their names , lays down the law , 66 Que ...
... white , the Carpet red : The Guests withdrawn had left the Treat , And down the Mice fate , tête à tête . Our Courtier walks from difh to dish , Taftes for his Friend of Fowl and Fish ; Tells all their names , lays down the law , 66 Que ...
Sivu 102
... white , he took it at first fight for a Swan , and was concluding his fon would be a Poet : but on a nearer view , he perceived it to be speckled with black , in the form of letters ; and that it was indeed a Paper kite which had broke ...
... white , he took it at first fight for a Swan , and was concluding his fon would be a Poet : but on a nearer view , he perceived it to be speckled with black , in the form of letters ; and that it was indeed a Paper kite which had broke ...
Sivu 112
... many Creatures which he never found fince in any Au- thor , fuch as White Lions , Golden Dragons , & c . He once thought the fame of Green Men , but had fince found them mentioned by Kercherus , and ve- rified fince 112 MEMOIRS OF.
... many Creatures which he never found fince in any Au- thor , fuch as White Lions , Golden Dragons , & c . He once thought the fame of Green Men , but had fince found them mentioned by Kercherus , and ve- rified fince 112 MEMOIRS OF.
Sivu 130
... white Speck in the neck , lame of one leg , belongs to fuch a Lady . Greyhound , genus ; moufe - colour'd , etc. differentia ; lame of one leg , accidens ; belongs to fuch a Lady , pro- prium . Though I'm afraid I have tranfgreffed upon ...
... white Speck in the neck , lame of one leg , belongs to fuch a Lady . Greyhound , genus ; moufe - colour'd , etc. differentia ; lame of one leg , accidens ; belongs to fuch a Lady , pro- prium . Though I'm afraid I have tranfgreffed upon ...
Sivu 160
... white Bears . In Phyfiognomy , his penetration is fuch , that from the Picture only of any perfon , he can write his Life ; and from the features of the Parents , draw the Portrait of any Child that is to be born . Nor hath he been fo ...
... white Bears . In Phyfiognomy , his penetration is fuch , that from the Picture only of any perfon , he can write his Life ; and from the features of the Parents , draw the Portrait of any Child that is to be born . Nor hath he been fo ...
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againſt alfo almoft alſo ancient animals Bathos beauty becauſe cafe caft cafus caufe cauſe compofed confifts Cornelius Crambe defcribe defcription defign defire difcover Eclogues Engliſh ev'ry excellent expreffion eyes faid fame feems fenfe feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould filly fince fingle firft firſt fome fometimes Friend ftill fubject fuch Genius greateſt hath himſelf Homer honour Horfes Horſe Iliad inftance itſelf juft juſt laft leaft learned leaſt lefs Lord mafter manner Martin modern moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature never obferved occafion paffages Paffion pafs Paftoral perfon pleafing pleaſe pleaſure Poems Poet poetry praiſe prefent Profund publick quam quoth racter raiſe reafon reft rife ſay Scriblerus ſeem Shakeſpear ſhall ſhe ſpeak Terpander thee thefe themſelves Theocritus theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought thro tranflated univerfal uſe verfe verſes Virgil whofe whole words writers
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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...