The Works of Alexander Pope: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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Sivu 9
... Master , very low . There dy'd my Father , no man's Debtor , And there I'll die , nor worse nor better . To fet this matter full before ye , Our old Friend Swift will tell his Story . " Harley , the Nation's great Support , " But you ...
... Master , very low . There dy'd my Father , no man's Debtor , And there I'll die , nor worse nor better . To fet this matter full before ye , Our old Friend Swift will tell his Story . " Harley , the Nation's great Support , " But you ...
Sivu 72
... master of this kind of Compofition with every other he undertook ( and in all he greatly excelled ; ) witness these lines in the Epifle to Jervas , which would have made the finest Epitaph ever written : Call round her Tomb each object ...
... master of this kind of Compofition with every other he undertook ( and in all he greatly excelled ; ) witness these lines in the Epifle to Jervas , which would have made the finest Epitaph ever written : Call round her Tomb each object ...
Sivu 79
... Master taught , Whofe Art was Nature , and whofe Pictures Thought ; Now for two ages having snatch'd from fate Whate'er was beauteous , or whate'er was great , Lies crown'd with Princes honours , Poets lays , 5 Due to his Merit , and ...
... Master taught , Whofe Art was Nature , and whofe Pictures Thought ; Now for two ages having snatch'd from fate Whate'er was beauteous , or whate'er was great , Lies crown'd with Princes honours , Poets lays , 5 Due to his Merit , and ...
Sivu 97
... master in the fine arts and Dr. Swift excelled in the knowledge of the world . WAT they had all in equal measure , and that fo large , as no age perhaps ever produced three men , to whom Nature had more bountifully bestowed it , or Art ...
... master in the fine arts and Dr. Swift excelled in the knowledge of the world . WAT they had all in equal measure , and that fo large , as no age perhaps ever produced three men , to whom Nature had more bountifully bestowed it , or Art ...
Sivu 107
... master's honour ) had fcoured it as clean as her Andirons * . Cornelius funk back on a chair , the Guefts ftood aftonished , the infant fquaul'd , the maid ran in , fnatch'd it up again in her arms , flew into her mif- trefs's room ...
... master's honour ) had fcoured it as clean as her Andirons * . Cornelius funk back on a chair , the Guefts ftood aftonished , the infant fquaul'd , the maid ran in , fnatch'd it up again in her arms , flew into her mif- trefs's room ...
Muita painoksia - Näytä kaikki
Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
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
Suositut otteet
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...