The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Band 4B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly [and others], 1797 - 3650 Seiten |
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... true ; but I have for the most part spared their Names , and they may escape being laughed at , if they please . I would have fome of them know , it was owing to the request of the learned and candid Friend to whom it is inscribed ...
... true ; but I have for the most part spared their Names , and they may escape being laughed at , if they please . I would have fome of them know , it was owing to the request of the learned and candid Friend to whom it is inscribed ...
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... true in fact : " I have obferved that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or fair man , of a mild or choleric difpofition , married or a bachelor . " What paffages in Horace are ...
... true in fact : " I have obferved that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or fair man , of a mild or choleric difpofition , married or a bachelor . " What paffages in Horace are ...
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... true Character of descriptive poetry , as it is called . A compofition , in his opinion , as abfurd as a feast made up of fauces . The office of a picturefque imagination is to brighten and adorn good sense ; so that to employ it only ...
... true Character of descriptive poetry , as it is called . A compofition , in his opinion , as abfurd as a feast made up of fauces . The office of a picturefque imagination is to brighten and adorn good sense ; so that to employ it only ...
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... true , these were lavished upon his enemies : for his friends he had other things in store . In a letter to Thuanus , speaking of two of them , Clavius and Lipfius , he calls the firft a monster of ignorance ; and the other a flave to ...
... true , these were lavished upon his enemies : for his friends he had other things in store . In a letter to Thuanus , speaking of two of them , Clavius and Lipfius , he calls the firft a monster of ignorance ; and the other a flave to ...
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Alexander Pope. A man's true merit ' tis not hard to find ; But each man's fecret standard in his mind , That Cafting - weight pride adds to emptiness , This , who can gratify ? for who can guess ? The Bard whom pilfer'd Pastorals renown ...
Alexander Pope. A man's true merit ' tis not hard to find ; But each man's fecret standard in his mind , That Cafting - weight pride adds to emptiness , This , who can gratify ? for who can guess ? The Bard whom pilfer'd Pastorals renown ...
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Seite 337 - 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 touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone.
Seite 7 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Seite 54 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Seite 316 - Hear her black trumpet through the land proclaim, That not to be corrupted is the shame. In soldier, churchman, patriot, man in power, Tis avarice all, ambition is no more! See all our nobles begging to be slaves ! See all our fools aspiring to be knaves! The wit of cheats, the courage of a...
Seite 77 - Hear this, and tremble ! you who 'scape the laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world, in credit, to his grave.
Seite 79 - There my Retreat, the best Companions grace, Chiefs out of War, and Statesmen out of Place. There ST JOHN mingles with my friendly Bowl, The Feast of Reason, and the Flow of Soul. And HE, whose Lightning pierc'd th...
Seite 207 - Besides, a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praise they say I bite. A vile encomium doubly ridicules : There's nothing blackens like the ink of fools. If true, a woful likeness ; and, if lies, ' Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.
Seite 379 - ... of both Homer's poems into one, which is yet but a fourth part as large as his. The other Epic Poets have...
Seite 398 - When we read Homer, we ought to reflect that we are reading the...
Seite 50 - 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; This dreaded...