The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, المجلد 6J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1751 |
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... Stiles MEMOIRS f P. P. clerk of this parish Of the Poet Laureate , Nov. 19 , 1729 Guardians Preface to Homer's Iliad Preface to the Works of Shakespear 235 241 253 259 299 329 ERRAT A. Page 6. 1. 3. for Haec , read CONTENTS . in.
... Stiles MEMOIRS f P. P. clerk of this parish Of the Poet Laureate , Nov. 19 , 1729 Guardians Preface to Homer's Iliad Preface to the Works of Shakespear 235 241 253 259 299 329 ERRAT A. Page 6. 1. 3. for Haec , read CONTENTS . in.
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... Poet excels his friend in his own way of modernizing Horace . But this way is infinitely inferior to his own . For tho ' Horace be eafy , he is not familiar ; or , if he be , it is the familia- rity of Courts , which is never without ...
... Poet excels his friend in his own way of modernizing Horace . But this way is infinitely inferior to his own . For tho ' Horace be eafy , he is not familiar ; or , if he be , it is the familia- rity of Courts , which is never without ...
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... Poet Shin'd in Description , he might flow it ; Tell how the Moon - beam trembling falls , And tips with filver all the walls ; Palladian walls , Venetian doors , Grotefco roofs , and Stucco floors : But let it ( in a word ) be faid ...
... Poet Shin'd in Description , he might flow it ; Tell how the Moon - beam trembling falls , And tips with filver all the walls ; Palladian walls , Venetian doors , Grotefco roofs , and Stucco floors : But let it ( in a word ) be faid ...
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... Poet , and they died . In vain they schem'd , in vain they bled ! They had no Poet , and are dead . MISCELLANIES . D 1 EPISTLE то ROBERT Earl of OXFORD Ode I. 31 OF HORACE . 333 Ode IX of Ho ace.
... Poet , and they died . In vain they schem'd , in vain they bled ! They had no Poet , and are dead . MISCELLANIES . D 1 EPISTLE то ROBERT Earl of OXFORD Ode I. 31 OF HORACE . 333 Ode IX of Ho ace.
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... Poet fung , " Till Death untimely ftop'd his tuneful tongue . Oh just beheld , and loft ! admir'd and mourn'd ! With fofteft manners , gentleft arts adorn'd ! Bleft in each science , bleft in ev'ry strain ! Dear to the Mufe ! to HARLEY ...
... Poet fung , " Till Death untimely ftop'd his tuneful tongue . Oh just beheld , and loft ! admir'd and mourn'd ! With fofteft manners , gentleft arts adorn'd ! Bleft in each science , bleft in ev'ry strain ! Dear to the Mufe ! to HARLEY ...
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الصفحة 325 - ... to consider him attentively in comparison with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns.
الصفحة 313 - Who can be so prejudiced in their favour as to magnify the felicity of those ages, when a spirit of revenge and cruelty, joined with the practice of rapine and robbery, reigned through the world ; when no mercy was...
الصفحة 303 - How fertile will that imagination appear which was able to clothe all the properties of elements, the qualifications of the mind, the virtues and vices, in forms and persons, and to introduce them into actions agreeable to the nature of the things they shadowed?
الصفحة 278 - I CANNOT think it extravagant to imagine that mankind are no less in proportion accountable for the ill use of their dominion over creatures of the lower rank of beings than for the exercise of tyranny over their own species.
الصفحة 331 - ... something between penetration and felicity, he hits upon that particular point on which the bent of each argument turns, or the force of each motive depends.
الصفحة 334 - ... upon the judgments of that body of men whereof he was a member. They have ever had a standard to themselves, upon other principles than those of Aristotle.
الصفحة 310 - ... of a trumpet. They roll along as a plentiful river, always in motion, and always full ; while we are borne away by a tide of...
الصفحة 289 - Nay, to that perfection is he arrived, that he stoops as he walks. The figure of the man is odd enough; he is a lively little creature, with long arms and legs : a spider is no ill emblem of him : he has been taken at a distance for a small windmill.
الصفحة 300 - 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 45 - ... 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.