The Works of Alexander Pope: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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الصفحة 71
... Learning , and of Knaves in State : Yet foft his Nature , tho ' fevere his Lay , His Anger moral , and his Wisdom gay . Epitaphs . ] Thefe little compofitions far exceed any thing we have of the fame kind from other hands ; yet , if we ...
... Learning , and of Knaves in State : Yet foft his Nature , tho ' fevere his Lay , His Anger moral , and his Wisdom gay . Epitaphs . ] Thefe little compofitions far exceed any thing we have of the fame kind from other hands ; yet , if we ...
الصفحة 96
... learning ; and to make it the better received , they proposed to do it in the manner of Cervantes ( the original author of this species of fatire ) under the hiftory of fome feigned adventures . They had obferved thofe abufes ftill kept ...
... learning ; and to make it the better received , they proposed to do it in the manner of Cervantes ( the original author of this species of fatire ) under the hiftory of fome feigned adventures . They had obferved thofe abufes ftill kept ...
الصفحة 102
... greatly rejoiced at all these figns , which betokened the variety of his Eloquence , and the extent of his Learning ; but he was more particularly particularly pleased with the laft , as it nearly refem- 102 MEMOIRS OF.
... greatly rejoiced at all these figns , which betokened the variety of his Eloquence , and the extent of his Learning ; but he was more particularly particularly pleased with the laft , as it nearly refem- 102 MEMOIRS OF.
الصفحة 109
... Learning . S foon as Cornelius awaked , he raised him- A felf on his elbow , and cafting his eye on Mrs. ( 6 Wifely was it faid Scriblerus , fpoke as follows . " by Homer , that in the Cellar of Jupiter are two " barrels , the one of ...
... Learning . S foon as Cornelius awaked , he raised him- A felf on his elbow , and cafting his eye on Mrs. ( 6 Wifely was it faid Scriblerus , fpoke as follows . " by Homer , that in the Cellar of Jupiter are two " barrels , the one of ...
الصفحة 112
... learning . He would frequently carry him to the Puppet - how of the Creation of the world , where the Child with exceeding delight gained a notion of the Hiftory of the Bible . His firft rudi- ments in prophane hiftory were acquired by ...
... learning . He would frequently carry him to the Puppet - how of the Creation of the world , where the Child with exceeding delight gained a notion of the Hiftory of the Bible . His firft rudi- ments in prophane hiftory were acquired by ...
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الصفحة 290 - Homer makes us hearers, and Virgil leaves us readers. If in the next place we take a view of the sentiments, the same presiding faculty is eminent in the sublimity and spirit of his thoughts. Longinus has given his opinion, that it was in this part Homer principally excelled.
الصفحة 81 - Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
الصفحة 196 - Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy!
الصفحة 280 - I know an eminent cook, who beautified his country seat with a coronation dinner in greens ; where you see the champion flourishing on horseback at one end of the table, and the queen in perpetual youth at the other.
الصفحة 309 - ... to consider him attentively in comparison with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns.
الصفحة 284 - 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 327 - Prose from verse they did not know, and they accordingly printed one for the other throughout the volume.
الصفحة 288 - Every one has something so singularly his own, that no painter could have distinguished them more by their features, than the poet has by their manners.
الصفحة 289 - Idomeneus a plain, direct soldier ; in Sarpedon, a gallant and generous one. Nor is this judicious and...
الصفحة 331 - 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...