Satires and EpistlesClarendon Press, 1881 - 164 sivua |
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... never ob- served in his own practice . His more elaborate portraits are so many virulent and abusive lampoons . In his savage assaults on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , and on Lord Hervey , he passed the bounds of the rules of decorum ...
... never ob- served in his own practice . His more elaborate portraits are so many virulent and abusive lampoons . In his savage assaults on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , and on Lord Hervey , he passed the bounds of the rules of decorum ...
Sivu 9
... never tell what would affront him , and he brooded over particular affronts , scheming revenge in verse . In such cases he was capable of the malice which thirsts for leaving wounds . All those bitter couplets were not impulse or ...
... never tell what would affront him , and he brooded over particular affronts , scheming revenge in verse . In such cases he was capable of the malice which thirsts for leaving wounds . All those bitter couplets were not impulse or ...
Sivu 14
... never derived any pecuniary profit from his writings . In Pope it was the more unpardonable , because it was in great part to literary manufacture - to his English Homer - that he owed his own comfortable home . To use his own sarcasm ...
... never derived any pecuniary profit from his writings . In Pope it was the more unpardonable , because it was in great part to literary manufacture - to his English Homer - that he owed his own comfortable home . To use his own sarcasm ...
Sivu 15
... never be possessed by any one man . Even were such infallibility attainable , it would be odious that the possessor of it should himself announce it to the rest of mankind . To this it may be replied , that just as the prophet comes ...
... never be possessed by any one man . Even were such infallibility attainable , it would be odious that the possessor of it should himself announce it to the rest of mankind . To this it may be replied , that just as the prophet comes ...
Sivu 16
... never transgresses the bounds of legitimate criticism . He had no libels on his conscience . He did indeed rouse the wrath of fashionable authors , and of grandees . He refused homage alike to false taste in writing , and to the noble ...
... never transgresses the bounds of legitimate criticism . He had no libels on his conscience . He did indeed rouse the wrath of fashionable authors , and of grandees . He refused homage alike to false taste in writing , and to the noble ...
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Sivu 30 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer: Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike ; Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Sivu 125 - With lust and violence the house of God? In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury, and outrage: And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Sivu 24 - They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Sivu 28 - Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flow'ry theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream.
Sivu 146 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he ' had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech.
Sivu 25 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse." If I dislike it, " Furies, death, and rage! " If I approve,
Sivu 27 - One flatt'rer's worse than all. Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent: Alas ! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates in high heroic prose, And ridicules beyond a hundred foes; One from all Grub Street will my fame defend, And, more abusive, calls himself my friend. This prints my letters, that expects a bribe, And others roar aloud, 'Subscribe, subscribe.
Sivu 25 - And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish, and an aching head; And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, — 'Keep your piece nine years.
Sivu 146 - whispers through the trees": If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with "sleep": Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Sivu 33 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.