The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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الصفحة 41
... Nature feem , Trifles themselves are elegant in him . Sure to charm all was his peculiar fate , Who without flatt'ry pleas'd the fair and great ; Still with efterm no less convers'd than read ; With wit well - natur'd , and with books ...
... Nature feem , Trifles themselves are elegant in him . Sure to charm all was his peculiar fate , Who without flatt'ry pleas'd the fair and great ; Still with efterm no less convers'd than read ; With wit well - natur'd , and with books ...
الصفحة 42
... Nature yielding , stubborn but for fame ; Made Slaves by honour , and made Fools by fhame . Marriage may all those petty Tyrants chase , But fets up one , a greater in their place ; Well might you wish for change by those accurst , But ...
... Nature yielding , stubborn but for fame ; Made Slaves by honour , and made Fools by fhame . Marriage may all those petty Tyrants chase , But fets up one , a greater in their place ; Well might you wish for change by those accurst , But ...
الصفحة 53
... nature ; Lean and fretful ; would feem wife ; Yet plays the fool before fhe dies . ' Tis an ugly envious Shrew , That rails at dear Lepell and You . IE 3 Occafioned Occafioned by fome Verfes of his Grace the Duke of MISCELLANIE S. 53 ...
... nature ; Lean and fretful ; would feem wife ; Yet plays the fool before fhe dies . ' Tis an ugly envious Shrew , That rails at dear Lepell and You . IE 3 Occafioned Occafioned by fome Verfes of his Grace the Duke of MISCELLANIE S. 53 ...
الصفحة 60
... Nature must give Way to Art . II . Mild Arcadians , ever blooming , Nightly nodding o'er your Flocks , See my weary Days confuming , All beneath yon flow'ry Rocks . III . Thus the Cyprian Goddess weeping , Mourn'd Adonis , darling Youth ...
... Nature must give Way to Art . II . Mild Arcadians , ever blooming , Nightly nodding o'er your Flocks , See my weary Days confuming , All beneath yon flow'ry Rocks . III . Thus the Cyprian Goddess weeping , Mourn'd Adonis , darling Youth ...
الصفحة 63
... natural and proper in this place , where the Poet was defcribing a Grotto incrufted and adorned with all forts of Minerals collected from the four quarters of the Globe . NOTES . On his Grotto ... NATURE ftudiously behold ! And eye ( 63 )
... natural and proper in this place , where the Poet was defcribing a Grotto incrufted and adorned with all forts of Minerals collected from the four quarters of the Globe . NOTES . On his Grotto ... NATURE ftudiously behold ! And eye ( 63 )
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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.