The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Compiled from Original Manuscripts; with a Critical Essay on His Writings and GeniusC. Bathurst, H. Woodfall, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, W. Johnston, B. White, T. Caslon, T. Longman, B. Law, Johnson and Payne, S. Bladon, T. Cadell, and the executors of A. Millar., 1769 - 578 sivua |
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... reader will , nevertheless , unavoidably meet with some repetitions of matter , which is already perhaps familiar to him . In those instances , where the writer hath been , indebted to others , more especially in what he hath borrowed ...
... reader will , nevertheless , unavoidably meet with some repetitions of matter , which is already perhaps familiar to him . In those instances , where the writer hath been , indebted to others , more especially in what he hath borrowed ...
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... reader to review his own opinions . Where he hath presumed to differ from the moft refpectable authorities , he would be rather understood to propose a doubt , than to offer a contradiction : he is not fo vain , 10 make light of the ...
... reader to review his own opinions . Where he hath presumed to differ from the moft refpectable authorities , he would be rather understood to propose a doubt , than to offer a contradiction : he is not fo vain , 10 make light of the ...
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... readers . Besides , it is fcarce poffible fometimes , when we are fmitten with a fine paffage , to fupprefs those ... reader will afcribe them to a folicitude , which made him rather carneft to do justice to the poet's merit , than to ...
... readers . Besides , it is fcarce poffible fometimes , when we are fmitten with a fine paffage , to fupprefs those ... reader will afcribe them to a folicitude , which made him rather carneft to do justice to the poet's merit , than to ...
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... readers perhaps who judge for themfelves . The far greater part deter- mine upon the authority of others , rather than from their own fentiments . Thus the partial judgment or caprice of fome fashionable and over - ruling critic , often ...
... readers perhaps who judge for themfelves . The far greater part deter- mine upon the authority of others , rather than from their own fentiments . Thus the partial judgment or caprice of fome fashionable and over - ruling critic , often ...
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... reader's at- tention will be occafionally relieved , and his curiofity gratified , by a detail of several anec- dotes , concerning our author and his cotempo- raries ; of which many have never yet been made public . Several inftances ...
... reader's at- tention will be occafionally relieved , and his curiofity gratified , by a detail of several anec- dotes , concerning our author and his cotempo- raries ; of which many have never yet been made public . Several inftances ...
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AARON HILL addreffed admirable affured againſt beautiful becauſe beft beſt cenfure character compofition critic Dean Swift defcribed defcription defign defire difplayed Dunciad effay effayift efteemed epiftle ev'ry excellent expreffed fafe faid fame fatire fays feems fenfe fenfible 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 inftance itſelf John Searl judgment juft juſt laft laſt leaft 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 praiſe prefent profe publiſhed purpoſe racter reafon refpect reft ridicule ſay ſeems ſpeak tafte thefe themſelves theſe lines thofe thoſe thought tion tranflation uſed verfe virtue whofe writings
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Sivu 265 - 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 231 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!
Sivu 123 - In some lone isle, or distant northern land; Where the gilt chariot never marks the way, Where none learn ombre, none e'er taste bohea!
Sivu 231 - The proper study of mankind is Man. Plac'd 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; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err...
Sivu 192 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Sivu 124 - Who would not scorn what Housewife's Cares produce, Or who would learn one earthly Thing of Use ? To patch, nay ogle, might become a Saint, Nor could it sure be such a Sin to paint. But since, alas ! frail Beauty must decay...
Sivu 163 - Come, Abelard ! for what hast thou to dread ? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature stands check'd ; Religion disapproves ; Ev'n thou art cold — yet Eloisa loves. 260 Ah hopeless, lasting flames ! like those that burn To light the dead, and warm th
Sivu 381 - But chief her shrine where naked Venus keeps, And Cupids ride the Lion of the Deeps; Where, eas'd of Fleets, the Adriatic main Wafts the smooth Eunuch and enamour'd swain.
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 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.