The Works of Alexander Pope: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseA. Millar [and others], 1757 |
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... REMARKS . The DUNCIAD , Book IV . ] This Book may properly be diftinguished from the former , by the Name of the GREATER DUNCIAD , not fo indeed in Size , but in fubject ; and fo far contrary to the distinction anciently made of the ...
... REMARKS . The DUNCIAD , Book IV . ] This Book may properly be diftinguished from the former , by the Name of the GREATER DUNCIAD , not fo indeed in Size , but in fubject ; and fo far contrary to the distinction anciently made of the ...
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... REMARKS . 5 10 VER . 6. To whom Time bears me an bis rapid wing , ] Fair and foftly , good Poet ! ( cries the gentle Scriblerus on this place . ) For fure , in fpite of his unusual modesty , he shall not travel fo faft toward Oblivion ...
... REMARKS . 5 10 VER . 6. To whom Time bears me an bis rapid wing , ] Fair and foftly , good Poet ! ( cries the gentle Scriblerus on this place . ) For fure , in fpite of his unusual modesty , he shall not travel fo faft toward Oblivion ...
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... REMARKS . fage Hiftorians to be preceded ) by an Eclipfe of the Sun ; but with a peculiar propriety , as the Sun is the Emblem of that intellectual light which dies before the face of Dulness . Very apposite likewife is it to make this ...
... REMARKS . fage Hiftorians to be preceded ) by an Eclipfe of the Sun ; but with a peculiar propriety , as the Sun is the Emblem of that intellectual light which dies before the face of Dulness . Very apposite likewife is it to make this ...
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... REMARKS . 20 The higher you climb , the more you Hew pour A -.- . Verified in no inftance more than in Dulness aspiring . Em- blematized alfo by an Ape climbing and expofing his posteriors , SCRIBL . VER . 20. ber Laureate fon reclines ...
... REMARKS . 20 The higher you climb , the more you Hew pour A -.- . Verified in no inftance more than in Dulness aspiring . Em- blematized alfo by an Ape climbing and expofing his posteriors , SCRIBL . VER . 20. ber Laureate fon reclines ...
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... REMARKS . 25 Now if it be certain , that the works of our Poet have owed their fuccefs to this ingenious expedient , we hence derive an unanfwerable Argument , that this Fourth DUNCIAD , as well as the former three , hath had the ...
... REMARKS . 25 Now if it be certain , that the works of our Poet have owed their fuccefs to this ingenious expedient , we hence derive an unanfwerable Argument , that this Fourth DUNCIAD , as well as the former three , hath had the ...
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7 ページ - The moon-struck prophet felt the madding hour : Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out order, and extinguish light, Of dull and venal a new world to mould, And bring Saturnian days of lead and gold.
215 ページ - Go, then, where only bliss sincere is known! Go, where to love and to enjoy are one ! Yet take these tears, Mortality's relief, And, till we share your joys, forgive our grief: These little rites, a stone, a verse receive, Tis all a father, all a friend can give...
75 ページ - Night primaeval and of Chaos old ! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus
184 ページ - To muse, and spill her solitary Tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon ; Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire, Hum half a tune, tell stories to the squire ; Up to her godly garret after sev'n, There starve and pray, for that's the way to heav'n.
179 ページ - And breathe an air divine on ev'ry face; Yet should the Muses bid my numbers roll Strong as their charms, and gentle as their soul; With Zeuxis...
155 ページ - How think you of our friend the Dean ? I wonder what some people mean ; My lord and he are grown so great, Always together tc te a tete. What ! they admire him for his jokes — See but the fortune of some folks...
84 ページ - ... all the great characters of the age; and this with impunity, their own persons and names being utterly secret and obscure.
199 ページ - Cyprian goddess weeping Mourn'd Adonis, darling youth : Him the boar, in silence creeping, Gor'd with unrelenting tooth. IV. Cynthia, tune harmonious numbers ; Fair Discretion, string the lyre ; Sooth my ever-waking slumbers : Bright Apollo, lend thy choir, V. Gloomy Pluto, king of terrors, Arm'd in adamantine chains, Lead me to the crystal mirrors, "Watering soft Elysian plains.
216 ページ - Poets lays, Due to his merit, and brave thirst of praise Living, great Nature fear'd he might outvie Her works ; and dying, fears herself may die.
178 ページ - Bid her be all that cheers or softens life, The tender sister, daughter, friend, and wife; Bid her be all that makes mankind adore, Then view this marble, and be vain no more!