The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers, F.S.A. and Others. To which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author, Band 4J. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son ... [and 24 others], 1806 |
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... beautiful imagination , fupported by ftrength of judg ment , has enabled the Author to go beyond his fubject , and effect the full purpose of the ancient Tragedy ; that is , to purge the paffions by pity and terror , in colouring as ...
... beautiful imagination , fupported by ftrength of judg ment , has enabled the Author to go beyond his fubject , and effect the full purpose of the ancient Tragedy ; that is , to purge the paffions by pity and terror , in colouring as ...
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... beautiful al . legories . The author , who called his Campaign a Gazette in Rhyme , never meant to deny that there were many very brilliant 0 2 paffages Afperitatis , et invidia corrector , et iræ ; * FP . I. 195 OF HORACE .
... beautiful al . legories . The author , who called his Campaign a Gazette in Rhyme , never meant to deny that there were many very brilliant 0 2 paffages Afperitatis , et invidia corrector , et iræ ; * FP . I. 195 OF HORACE .
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... beautiful as it is , as in the Macbeth , Lear , and Othello , all writ- ten before Corneille was born ; whose first comedy , Melite , which is now never acted , was reprefented 1624. The pieces of the very fertile Hardy ( for he wrote ...
... beautiful as it is , as in the Macbeth , Lear , and Othello , all writ- ten before Corneille was born ; whose first comedy , Melite , which is now never acted , was reprefented 1624. The pieces of the very fertile Hardy ( for he wrote ...
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... beautiful metaphor of a work , Cælatum Mufis Novem , polished and finished by the hands of the Mufes them- felves . Bentley has wantonly and taftlessly altered the word to Sacratum ; as he has done the word alterius , ver . 176 , to ...
... beautiful metaphor of a work , Cælatum Mufis Novem , polished and finished by the hands of the Mufes them- felves . Bentley has wantonly and taftlessly altered the word to Sacratum ; as he has done the word alterius , ver . 176 , to ...
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... beautiful . Mr. Pope feized on them as family diamonds , and added thereto an equal number , dug from his own mines , and heightened by his own polishing . " Compound - epithets first came into their great vogue about the year 1598 ...
... beautiful . Mr. Pope feized on them as family diamonds , and added thereto an equal number , dug from his own mines , and heightened by his own polishing . " Compound - epithets first came into their great vogue about the year 1598 ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Addiſon againſt alfo alludes Author becauſe beſt Boileau Brutus caufe cauſe character circumftance Court defire Dryden Dunciad Effay Elijah Fenton Epiftle ev'n ev'ry expreffion faid fame fatire fays feems fenfe fentiments feveral fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fome fometimes fool fpeak fpirit ftill ftyle fubject fuch fuperior genius himſelf Homer honour Horace houſe Iliad imitation juſt King laft laſt leaſt lefs letter lines Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Hervey mafter manner minifter moft moſt muſt nature never NOTES numbers obferved occafion paffage paffions perfon Pindar pleaſe pleaſure poem Poet poetry Pope Pope's praiſe prefent profe publiſhed purpoſe quæ quid quod raiſed reaſon refpect ridicule Satire ſay Shakeſpear Sir Robert Walpole ſpeak ſtate ſtill ſtyle ſuch Swift thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thought thouſand tranflation uſed verfe verſe Virgil Virtue Walpole WARBURTON WARTON whofe whoſe words write
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 45 - d by ev'ry quill ; Fed with soft dedication all day long, Horace and he went hand in hand in song.
Seite 119 - For gain, not glory, wing'd his roving flight, And grew Immortal in his own despite.
Seite 36 - 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 56 - A Cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust; Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Seite 165 - Nassau to Kneller's hand decreed To fix him graceful on the bounding Steed; So well in paint and stone they judg'd of merit: But Kings in Wit may want discerning spirit.
Seite 391 - That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me; of whom it is hard to say whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing to his generosity or his example...
Seite 56 - 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!
Seite 65 - 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 309 - I touch thee ! but with honest zeal, To rouse the watchmen of the public weal, To virtue's work provoke the tardy hall, And goad the prelate, slumbering in his stall.
Seite 353 - For we find thofe authors who have been offended at the literal notion of the Gods, conftantly laying their accufation againft Homer as the chief fupport of it. But whatever caufe there might be to blame his machines in a philofophical...