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 ページ |
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... tell him there was one way left , of excelling : for that , though we had several great poets , yet we never had any that was correct ; and he therefore recommended correctnefs to him , as his principal study and aim . It must be ...
... tell him there was one way left , of excelling : for that , though we had several great poets , yet we never had any that was correct ; and he therefore recommended correctnefs to him , as his principal study and aim . It must be ...
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... The fcholar's learning , with the courtier's " eafe . " The Effavift remarks , that the chief merit of Petronius , is that of telling a flory with grace and and ease : But the Poet is not here speaking 94 THE LIFE OF.
... The fcholar's learning , with the courtier's " eafe . " The Effavift remarks , that the chief merit of Petronius , is that of telling a flory with grace and and ease : But the Poet is not here speaking 94 THE LIFE OF.
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... telling a story with grace and eafe , yet he im- mediately adds , " that his own ftile is more " affected , than even that of his cotemporaries . " How the effayift can reconcile the grace and eafe which he admits , with the affectation ...
... telling a story with grace and eafe , yet he im- mediately adds , " that his own ftile is more " affected , than even that of his cotemporaries . " How the effayift can reconcile the grace and eafe which he admits , with the affectation ...
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... tell you in other words , " that he is wifer than he was . " It cannot be denied , however , but this piece , upon the whole , notwithstanding fome trivial inaccuracies , may be juftly efteemed as a pattern of compofition in the ...
... tell you in other words , " that he is wifer than he was . " It cannot be denied , however , but this piece , upon the whole , notwithstanding fome trivial inaccuracies , may be juftly efteemed as a pattern of compofition in the ...
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... tell , " Is it , in heav'n , a crime to love too well ? " To bear too tender , or too firm a heart , " To act a Lover's , or a Roman's part ? " Is there no bright reversion in the fky , For those who greatly think , or bravely die ? " K ...
... tell , " Is it , in heav'n , a crime to love too well ? " To bear too tender , or too firm a heart , " To act a Lover's , or a Roman's part ? " Is there no bright reversion in the fky , For those who greatly think , or bravely die ? " K ...
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265 ページ - 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...
231 ページ - 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!
123 ページ - 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!
231 ページ - 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...
192 ページ - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
124 ページ - 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...
163 ページ - 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
381 ページ - 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.
80 ページ - 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.
239 ページ - 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.