The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson, 第 1 巻1812 |
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... expressions , and practice increased his facility of versification . In a short time he represents himself as dispatching regularly fifty verses a - day , which would shew him by an easy computation the termination of his labour . His ...
... expressions , and practice increased his facility of versification . In a short time he represents himself as dispatching regularly fifty verses a - day , which would shew him by an easy computation the termination of his labour . His ...
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... heartily at my embarrassment ; said , " I had not been long enough acquainted with Lord 66 - P First four . This vulgar expression has escaped Dr. Johnson's accurate pen . C. Spence . " Halifax to know his way yet ; that I THE AUTHOR . xlv.
... heartily at my embarrassment ; said , " I had not been long enough acquainted with Lord 66 - P First four . This vulgar expression has escaped Dr. Johnson's accurate pen . C. Spence . " Halifax to know his way yet ; that I THE AUTHOR . xlv.
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... meaning imputed to the first expression . Aaron Hill , who was represented as diving for the prize , expostulated with Pope in a manner so much superior to all mean solicitation , that Pope was re- e 2 THE AUTHOR . lxiii.
... meaning imputed to the first expression . Aaron Hill , who was represented as diving for the prize , expostulated with Pope in a manner so much superior to all mean solicitation , that Pope was re- e 2 THE AUTHOR . lxiii.
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... expressions not very favour able to morals or to liberty . About this time Warburton began to make his ap- pearance in the first ranks of learning . He was a man of vigorous faculties , a mind fervid and vehement sup- plied by incessant ...
... expressions not very favour able to morals or to liberty . About this time Warburton began to make his ap- pearance in the first ranks of learning . He was a man of vigorous faculties , a mind fervid and vehement sup- plied by incessant ...
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... expression seems ; for you have made my system as clear as I ought to have done , and " could not . It is indeed the same system as mine , " but illustrated with a ray of your own , as they say our natural body is the same still when it ...
... expression seems ; for you have made my system as clear as I ought to have done , and " could not . It is indeed the same system as mine , " but illustrated with a ray of your own , as they say our natural body is the same still when it ...
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Addison afterwards ALEXANDER POPE ancient appear bard beauties Blest Bolingbroke bright censure character courser critics crown'd Cynthus DAPHNIS delight Dryden Dunciad Eclogues Epistle epitaph Essay Essay on Criticism Eurydice ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame fire flame flocks flow'rs forest friendship genius glory grace groves heart heav'n Homer honour Iliad imitation immortal Isaiah labour lays learning letters living Lord Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke LORD LANSDOWN lyre mankind mind muse muse's nature never numbers nymph o'er once passion pastoral plain poem poet poetry Pope Pope's pow'r praise pride publick published racter rage resound rise sacred SATIRE SATIRE'S scene seems SEMICHORUS sense shade shepherds shew shine sing skies smile soft spring strains streams STREPHON swains Swift sylvan thee Theocritus thou thought tion translation trees trembling truth verse Virg Virgil virtue virtue's Warburton write written
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130 ページ - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
xlv ページ - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head. Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies...
145 ページ - While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind : But more...
li ページ - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. "For," says he, "the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
cxii ページ - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope.
137 ページ - Ten Censure wrong for one who Writes amiss ; A Fool might once himself alone expose, Now One in Verse makes many more in Prose.
lxxxii ページ - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
145 ページ - A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
130 ページ - Happy the man. whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound. Content to breathe his native air. In his own ground Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire. Whose trees in summer yield him shade. In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away, In health of body, peace of mind. Quiet by day. Sound sleep by night; study and ease. Together mixt: sweet recreation, And innocence, which most does please With meditation.
cxx ページ - Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.