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... Essay on Criticism ? Be it as it will , the reasons of their admiration and of his contempt are equally subsist- ing , for his works and theirs are the very same that they were . One , therefore , of their assertions , I believe may be ...
... Essay on Criticism ? Be it as it will , the reasons of their admiration and of his contempt are equally subsist- ing , for his works and theirs are the very same that they were . One , therefore , of their assertions , I believe may be ...
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... critic of his age and country , admi- rable for his talents , and yet , perhaps , more admi- rable for his judgment in the ... Essay on Criticism , in French verse , by General Hamilton ; the same , in verse also , by Monsieur Roboton ...
... critic of his age and country , admi- rable for his talents , and yet , perhaps , more admi- rable for his judgment in the ... Essay on Criticism , in French verse , by General Hamilton ; the same , in verse also , by Monsieur Roboton ...
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... Essay on Criticism , Dunciad Dissected . p . 4. Guardian , No. 40. Jacob's Lives , & c . vol . II . • Dun- ciad Dissected . ++ Farmer P.and his 8on . Dunciad Dis sected . Characters of the Times , p . 45. + Female Dun C of Hesiod , a ...
... Essay on Criticism , Dunciad Dissected . p . 4. Guardian , No. 40. Jacob's Lives , & c . vol . II . • Dun- ciad Dissected . ++ Farmer P.and his 8on . Dunciad Dis sected . Characters of the Times , p . 45. + Female Dun C of Hesiod , a ...
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... Essay on Criticism , of which hear first the most ancient of critics , MR . JOHN DENNIS . His precepts are false or trivial , or both ; his • thoughts are crude and abortive ; his expressions , ciád , p . ult . Dunciad Dissected . Roome ...
... Essay on Criticism , of which hear first the most ancient of critics , MR . JOHN DENNIS . His precepts are false or trivial , or both ; his • thoughts are crude and abortive ; his expressions , ciád , p . ult . Dunciad Dissected . Roome ...
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... Essay on Criticism , printed for Bernard Lintot , octavo . Essay on Criticism in prose , octavo , 1728 , by the author of the Critical History of England . He is followed ( as in fame , so in 22 TESTIMONIES OF AUTHORS .
... Essay on Criticism , printed for Bernard Lintot , octavo . Essay on Criticism in prose , octavo , 1728 , by the author of the Critical History of England . He is followed ( as in fame , so in 22 TESTIMONIES OF AUTHORS .
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الصفحة 132 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
الصفحة 125 - A Clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a Stanza, when he should engross?
الصفحة 132 - Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying...
الصفحة 131 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
الصفحة 136 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
الصفحة 126 - Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What Drop or Nostrum can this plague remove?
الصفحة 36 - Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor; This year a reservoir, to keep and spare : The next, a fountain, spouting through his heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst.
الصفحة 125 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
الصفحة 129 - And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own?
الصفحة 170 - Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, (More silent far) where kings and poets lie ; Where MURRAY (long enough, his country's pride) Shall be no more than TULLY, or than HYDE ! Rack'd with sciatics,.