The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Carefully Collated and Compared with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and CommentatorsEditor, and sold, 1778 |
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... common plan of Reforma- tion of manners . Had it been his purpose merely to paraphrafe an an- cient fatirift , he had hardly made choice of Horace ; with whom , as a poet , he held little in common , be ~ fides a comprehenfive knowledge ...
... common plan of Reforma- tion of manners . Had it been his purpose merely to paraphrafe an an- cient fatirift , he had hardly made choice of Horace ; with whom , as a poet , he held little in common , be ~ fides a comprehenfive knowledge ...
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... common , to use great liberties of speech , and to profefs faying what they thought . Montagne had many qualities , that had gained him the love and esteem of his readers : the other had one , which always gained him the favourable ...
... common , to use great liberties of speech , and to profefs faying what they thought . Montagne had many qualities , that had gained him the love and esteem of his readers : the other had one , which always gained him the favourable ...
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... common cafe , Nor once to Chanc'ry , nor to Hale apply ; Yet hang your lip , to fee a feam awry ! Careless how ill I with myself agree , Kind to my drefs , my figure , not to me . Is this my guide , philofopher , and friend ? This he ...
... common cafe , Nor once to Chanc'ry , nor to Hale apply ; Yet hang your lip , to fee a feam awry ! Careless how ill I with myself agree , Kind to my drefs , my figure , not to me . Is this my guide , philofopher , and friend ? This he ...
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... common chat of the pretenders to criticism ; in fome things right , in others , wrong ; as he tells us in his anfwer . Interdum vulgus retumvidet : eft ubi peccat . A piece of very low humour , one of the first printed plays in English ...
... common chat of the pretenders to criticism ; in fome things right , in others , wrong ; as he tells us in his anfwer . Interdum vulgus retumvidet : eft ubi peccat . A piece of very low humour , one of the first printed plays in English ...
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... common linguifts , and fo Panurge was ; Nay troth th ' apoftles , ( tho ' perhaps too rough ) Had once a pretty gift of tongues enough : Yet these were all poor gentlemen ! I dare Affirm , ' twas travel made them what they were . Thus ...
... common linguifts , and fo Panurge was ; Nay troth th ' apoftles , ( tho ' perhaps too rough ) Had once a pretty gift of tongues enough : Yet these were all poor gentlemen ! I dare Affirm , ' twas travel made them what they were . Thus ...
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127 ページ - And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so well enlarged upon in the preface to his works: That wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn.
2 ページ - Pope. Friend to my life, (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love?
104 ページ - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
3 ページ - The truth once told (and wherefore should we lie?) The Queen of Midas slept, and so may I. You think this cruel ? take it for a rule, No creature smarts so little as a fool. Let peals of laughter, Codrus ! round thee break, 85 Thou unconcern'd canst hear the mighty crack: Pit, box, and gall'ry in convulsions hurl'd, Thou stand'st unshook amidst a bursting world. Who shames a Scribbler? break one cobweb thro...
9 ページ - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or, at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad...
281 ページ - We only furnish what he cannot use, Or wed to what he must divorce, a muse: Full in the midst of Euclid dip at once, And petrify a genius to a dunce: Or set on metaphysic ground to prance, Show all his paces, not a step advance.
11 ページ - If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit...
2 ページ - And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove?
171 ページ - Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, Where o'er the gates, by his fam'd father's hand Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand; One Cell there is, conceal'd from vulgar eye, The Cave of Poverty and Poetry. Keen, hollow winds howl thro' the bleak recess, Emblem of Music caus'd by Emptiness.
127 ページ - ... or science, which have not been touched upon by others ; we have little else left us but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights. If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry...