The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Compiled from Original Manuscripts; with a Critical Essay on His Writings and GeniusC. Bathurst, H. Woodfall, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, W. Johnston, B. White, T. Caslon, T. Longman, B. Law, Johnson and Payne, S. Bladon, T. Cadell, and the executors of A. Millar., 1769 - 578 من الصفحات |
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... fhort , from Dryden principally , our bard learnt all the magic of his verfification . From the time he became fo enamoured of Dryden's works , he grew impatient to see the author , and at length procured a friend to in- troduce him to ...
... fhort , from Dryden principally , our bard learnt all the magic of his verfification . From the time he became fo enamoured of Dryden's works , he grew impatient to see the author , and at length procured a friend to in- troduce him to ...
الصفحة 66
... fhort a time as he ever suffered any thing to lie by him . It had not probably been published fo foon , but for the importunity of his old friend Sir William Trumball , to whom he fent a copy of it , and who was was fo charmed with it ...
... fhort a time as he ever suffered any thing to lie by him . It had not probably been published fo foon , but for the importunity of his old friend Sir William Trumball , to whom he fent a copy of it , and who was was fo charmed with it ...
الصفحة 67
... fhort analysis of the poet's chain of argument : That Horace attended to method in his Art of Poetry , has been fhewn by a learned critic . See Mr. H rd's comment on the Epistle to the Pilos . F 2 and and I cannot help thinking it a ...
... fhort analysis of the poet's chain of argument : That Horace attended to method in his Art of Poetry , has been fhewn by a learned critic . See Mr. H rd's comment on the Epistle to the Pilos . F 2 and and I cannot help thinking it a ...
الصفحة 82
... - gination is finitten on a general furvey of nature , and must confequently confine his view to detached parts , which , to his fhort fight , will frequently frequently appear irregular . This , however , the poet 82 THE LIFE OF.
... - gination is finitten on a general furvey of nature , and must confequently confine his view to detached parts , which , to his fhort fight , will frequently frequently appear irregular . This , however , the poet 82 THE LIFE OF.
الصفحة 87
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... fhort time . But the Alexan- " drine , by its pause in the midft , is a tardy and ftately meafure ; and the word unbending , one " of the most fluggish and flow which our lan- guage affords , cannot much accelerate its mo- " tion ...
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الصفحة 265 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
الصفحة 231 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!
الصفحة 123 - In some lone isle, or distant northern land; Where the gilt chariot never marks the way, Where none learn ombre, none e'er taste bohea!
الصفحة 231 - The proper study of mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err...
الصفحة 192 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
الصفحة 124 - Who would not scorn what Housewife's Cares produce, Or who would learn one earthly Thing of Use ? To patch, nay ogle, might become a Saint, Nor could it sure be such a Sin to paint. But since, alas ! frail Beauty must decay...
الصفحة 163 - Come, Abelard ! for what hast thou to dread ? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature stands check'd ; Religion disapproves ; Ev'n thou art cold — yet Eloisa loves. 260 Ah hopeless, lasting flames ! like those that burn To light the dead, and warm th
الصفحة 381 - But chief her shrine where naked Venus keeps, And Cupids ride the Lion of the Deeps; Where, eas'd of Fleets, the Adriatic main Wafts the smooth Eunuch and enamour'd swain.
الصفحة 80 - She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For, as in bodies, thus in souls we find, What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
الصفحة 239 - Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod; The state of Nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man.