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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... reader . If we wish to know the merits of an author , we can have recourse to his works ; but in his life we expect to find a faithful representation of his character , manners , and endowments , of the situations in which he was placed ...
... reader . If we wish to know the merits of an author , we can have recourse to his works ; but in his life we expect to find a faithful representation of his character , manners , and endowments , of the situations in which he was placed ...
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... reader . Dr. Johnson , indeed , admits , that “ if an estimate of Pope's social qualities were to be made from his letters , an opinion too favourable cannot easily be formed ; that they exhibit a perpetual and unclouded effulgence of ...
... reader . Dr. Johnson , indeed , admits , that “ if an estimate of Pope's social qualities were to be made from his letters , an opinion too favourable cannot easily be formed ; that they exhibit a perpetual and unclouded effulgence of ...
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... readers , and he fails merely through the misfortune of an ill judgment ; but such a critic's is to put them out of humour ; a design he could never go upon without both that and an ill temper . " In performing the difficult task which ...
... readers , and he fails merely through the misfortune of an ill judgment ; but such a critic's is to put them out of humour ; a design he could never go upon without both that and an ill temper . " In performing the difficult task which ...
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... readers for a favourable construction of those inaccuracies , from which no literary work is wholly exempt . For any additional information which the editor has been enabled to communicate , by the use of original letters and papers ...
... readers for a favourable construction of those inaccuracies , from which no literary work is wholly exempt . For any additional information which the editor has been enabled to communicate , by the use of original letters and papers ...
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... reader . It is asserted by Mrs. Blount that " she had often seen him weep , in reading very tender and melancholy subjects " ; " and he has himself informed us , that he was always particularly struck with that passage in Homer , where ...
... reader . It is asserted by Mrs. Blount that " she had often seen him weep , in reading very tender and melancholy subjects " ; " and he has himself informed us , that he was always particularly struck with that passage in Homer , where ...
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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.