The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe, Band 1Longman, Brown and Company, 1847 |
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... endeavoured to erect a standard of poetic ex- cellence , by which it would appear that Pope was entitled to take his station only in a secondary rank of poets ; and this idea he has continually kept in view , and endeavoured to enforce ...
... endeavoured to erect a standard of poetic ex- cellence , by which it would appear that Pope was entitled to take his station only in a secondary rank of poets ; and this idea he has continually kept in view , and endeavoured to enforce ...
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... endeavoured to unite as far as practicable , his various and extensive notes and observations in the same edition with those of War- burton , with the omission , however , of such of those of Warton , as appeared to have no immediate ...
... endeavoured to unite as far as practicable , his various and extensive notes and observations in the same edition with those of War- burton , with the omission , however , of such of those of Warton , as appeared to have no immediate ...
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... endeavouring at : " - and Pope has himself remarked , in the preface to his works , that " a bad author deserves ... endeavoured to keep in view what he conceives to be the chief duty of an editor ; viz . to execute an office which ...
... endeavouring at : " - and Pope has himself remarked , in the preface to his works , that " a bad author deserves ... endeavoured to keep in view what he conceives to be the chief duty of an editor ; viz . to execute an office which ...
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... endeavoured to discover the art and mys- tery of his versification , so superior in richness , variety , and harmony , to all that had preceded it . What the result was , appears in his own writings , where the spirit of his master is ...
... endeavoured to discover the art and mys- tery of his versification , so superior in richness , variety , and harmony , to all that had preceded it . What the result was , appears in his own writings , where the spirit of his master is ...
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... endeavoured to mend my manner by copying good strokes from others . " This was the cause of his Imitations , published a long time afterwards . He also translated the treatise of Cicero , De Senectute , a copy of which translation is ...
... endeavoured to mend my manner by copying good strokes from others . " This was the cause of his Imitations , published a long time afterwards . He also translated the treatise of Cicero , De Senectute , a copy of which translation is ...
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Seite 135 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Seite 168 - For forms of government let fools contest: Whate'er is best administer'd is best: For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right; In faith and hope the world will disagree.
Seite 8 - 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...
Seite 159 - Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more ; Such, if there be, who loves so long, so well ; Let him our sad, our tender story tell ! The well-sung woes will sooth my pensive ghost ; He best can paint them who shall feel them most ! THE TEMPLE OF FAME.
Seite 441 - Horace, and, though lean, am short, Ammon's great son one shoulder had too high, Such Ovid's nose, and "Sir! you have an eye"— Go on, obliging creatures, make me see All that disgraced my betters, met in me. Say for my comfort, languishing in bed, "Just so immortal Maro held his head:" And when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago.
Seite 116 - Iliad, because he had looked over Mr. Tickell's, but could wish to have the benefit of his observations on my second, which I had then finished, and which Mr. Tickell had not touched upon.
Seite 7 - Bestia's from the throne. Born to no pride, inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious through his age.
Seite 135 - The next day, while I was heated with what I had heard, I wrote a letter to Mr. Addison, to let him know that I was not unacquainted with this behaviour of his; that if I was to speak severely of him in return for it, it should not be in such a dirty way; that I should rather tell him himself fairly of his faults, and allow his good qualities; and that it should be something in the following manner.
Seite 195 - Thy reliques, Rowe, to this fair urn we trust, And sacred, place by Dryden's awful dust; Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies, , To which thy tomb shall guide inquiring eyes. . '• ' Peace to thy gentle shade, and endless rest! Blest in thy genius, in thy love too blest ! One grateful woman to thy fame supplies What a whole thankless land to his denies.
Seite 74 - The numerous and violent claps of the whig party on the one side of the theatre, were echoed back by the tories on the other; while the author sweated behind the scenes with concern to find their applause proceeding more from the hand than the head.