The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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الصفحة 47
... common care ; And prudent Nymphs againft that change prepare : The KNAVE OF CLUBS thrice loft : Oh ! who could guefs This fatal ftroke , this unforeseen Distress ? SMILIND A. See BETTY LOVET ! very à propos , She all the cares of Love ...
... common care ; And prudent Nymphs againft that change prepare : The KNAVE OF CLUBS thrice loft : Oh ! who could guefs This fatal ftroke , this unforeseen Distress ? SMILIND A. See BETTY LOVET ! very à propos , She all the cares of Love ...
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... common Soldier , who but clubb'd his Mite ? NOTES . เค VER . 6. But pitied Belifarius , etc. ] Nothing was ever more happily imagined than this allufion , or finelier con- ducted . And the continued pleafantry fo delicately touch- ed ...
... common Soldier , who but clubb'd his Mite ? NOTES . เค VER . 6. But pitied Belifarius , etc. ] Nothing was ever more happily imagined than this allufion , or finelier con- ducted . And the continued pleafantry fo delicately touch- ed ...
الصفحة 97
... common . Dr. Arbuthnot was killed in every thing which related to science ; Mr. Pope was a master in the fine arts ; and Dr. Swift excelled in the knowledge of the world . WIT they had all in equal measure , and that fo large , as no ...
... common . Dr. Arbuthnot was killed in every thing which related to science ; Mr. Pope was a master in the fine arts ; and Dr. Swift excelled in the knowledge of the world . WIT they had all in equal measure , and that fo large , as no ...
الصفحة 100
... common frailty of old men , to conceal his age : as to the second , I only remember to have heard him say , that he first faw the light in St. Giles's Pa- rifh . But in the investigation of this point , For- tune hath favoured our ...
... common frailty of old men , to conceal his age : as to the second , I only remember to have heard him say , that he first faw the light in St. Giles's Pa- rifh . But in the investigation of this point , For- tune hath favoured our ...
الصفحة 101
... common to all the feven freets ! which must be that on which the column is now erected . And it is with infinite pleasure that I fince find my Con- jecture confirmed , by the following paffage in the Codicil to Mr. Neale's Will . I ...
... common to all the feven freets ! which must be that on which the column is now erected . And it is with infinite pleasure that I fince find my Con- jecture confirmed , by the following paffage in the Codicil to Mr. Neale's Will . I ...
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الصفحة 328 - We shall hereby extenuate many faults which are his, and clear him from the imputation of many which are not...
الصفحة 299 - If a council be called, or a battle fought, you are not coldly informed of what was said or done as from a third person; the reader is hurried out of himself by the force of the poet's imagination, and turns in one place to a hearer, in another to a spectator.
الصفحة 323 - However, had he translated the whole work, I would no more have attempted Homer after him than Virgil, his Version of whom (notwithstanding some human errors) is the most noble and spirited translation I know in any language.
الصفحة 299 - If some things are too luxuriant it is owing to the richness of the soil; and if others are not arrived to perfection or maturity, it is only because they are overrun and oppressed by those of a stronger nature.
الصفحة 44 - ... twixt reading and Bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary Tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon; Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire, Hum half a tune, tell stories to the squire; Up to her godly garret after sev'n, There starve and pray, for that's the way to heav'n.
الصفحة 307 - Aristotle had reason to say, he was the only poet who had found out living words ; there are in him more daring figures and metaphors than in any good author whatever. An arrow is impatient to be on the wing, a weapon thirsts to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like.
الصفحة 346 - I will conclude by saying of Shakespear, that with all his faults, and with all the irregularity of his drama, one may look upon his works, in comparison of those that are more...
الصفحة 339 - ... till after his death. The whole number of genuine plays, which we have been able to find printed in his lifetime, amounts but to eleven.
الصفحة 12 - And that they ne'er consider'd yet. ' Good Mr. Dean, go change your gown, Let my lord know you're come to town.
الصفحة 293 - ... masters, being wholly unconfined, and painting at pleasure, may be thought to have given a full idea of what they esteemed most excellent in this way. These (one may observe) consist entirely of the useful part of horticulture, fruit-trees, herbs, water, &c.