The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs. Warburton and Warton [&c.]. To which are added, some original letters, with additional observations, and memoirs, by W.L. Bowles, Volum 41806 |
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Side 184
... beautiful imagination , fupported by ftrength of judg ment , has enabled the Author to go beyond his subject , and effect the full purpose of the ancient Tragedy ; that is , to purge the paffions by pity and terror , in colouring as ...
... beautiful imagination , fupported by ftrength of judg ment , has enabled the Author to go beyond his subject , and effect the full purpose of the ancient Tragedy ; that is , to purge the paffions by pity and terror , in colouring as ...
Side 195
... beautiful al . legories . The author , who called his Campaign a Gazette in Rhyme , never meant to deny that there were many very brilliant 02 paffages Afperitatis , et invidiæ corrector , et iræ ; Recte FP . I. 195 OF HORACE .
... beautiful al . legories . The author , who called his Campaign a Gazette in Rhyme , never meant to deny that there were many very brilliant 02 paffages Afperitatis , et invidiæ corrector , et iræ ; Recte FP . I. 195 OF HORACE .
Side 200
... beautiful as it is , as in the Macbeth , Lear , and Othello , all writ- ten before Corneille was born ; whofe first comedy , Melite , which is now never acted , was represented 1624. The pieces of the very fertile Hardy ( for he wrote ...
... beautiful as it is , as in the Macbeth , Lear , and Othello , all writ- ten before Corneille was born ; whofe first comedy , Melite , which is now never acted , was represented 1624. The pieces of the very fertile Hardy ( for he wrote ...
Side 238
... beautiful metaphor of a work , Cælatum Mufis Novem , polished and finifhed by the hands of the Mufes them . felves . Bentley has wantonly and tastlessly altered the word to Sacratum ; as he has done the word alterius , ver . 176 , to ...
... beautiful metaphor of a work , Cælatum Mufis Novem , polished and finifhed by the hands of the Mufes them . felves . Bentley has wantonly and tastlessly altered the word to Sacratum ; as he has done the word alterius , ver . 176 , to ...
Side 242
... beautiful . Mr. Pope feized on them as family diamonds , and added thereto an equal number , dug from his own mines , and heightened by his own polishing . 64 Compound - epithets firft came into their great vogue about the year 1598 ...
... beautiful . Mr. Pope feized on them as family diamonds , and added thereto an equal number , dug from his own mines , and heightened by his own polishing . 64 Compound - epithets firft came into their great vogue about the year 1598 ...
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Addiſon againſt alfo alludes alſo Author becauſe beſt Biſhop Boileau Brutus cauſe character circumftance Court defire Dryden Dunciad Engliſh Epiftle Ev'n ev'ry expreffion faid fame fatire fays feems fenfe fentiments feveral fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fome fool fpeaking ftill ftyle fubject fublime fuch fuperior genius greateſt himſelf Homer honour Horace Houſe Iliad imitation juft juſt King laft laſt lefs lines Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Hervey manners maſter moft moſt muft muſt nature NOTES numbers obferved occafion paffage paffions perfon pleaſe pleaſure Poem Poet poetry Pope Pope's praiſe prefent profe publiſhed purpoſe quæ quid quod raiſed reaſon Satire ſays ſeems Shakeſpear ſhe Sir Robert Sir Robert Walpole ſome ſpeak ſpirit ſtate ſtill ſtyle ſuch taſte thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thouſand tranflation uſed verfe verſe Virgil Virtue Walpole WARBURTON WARTON whofe whoſe words write
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Side 93 - There my Retreat, the best Companions grace, Chiefs out of War, and Statesmen out of Place. There ST JOHN mingles with my friendly Bowl, The Feast of Reason, and the Flow of Soul. And HE, whose Lightning pierc'd th...
Side 36 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Side 21 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Side 413 - His similes are like pictures, where the principal figure has not only its proportion given agreeable to the original, but is also set off with occasional ornaments and prospects.
Side 215 - Nassau to Kneller's hand decreed To fix him graceful on the bounding Steed; So well in paint and stone they judg'd of merit: But Kings in Wit may want discerning spirit.
Side 11 - 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.
Side 89 - What? arm'd for virtue when I point the pen, Brand the bold front of shameless guilty men; Dash the proud gamester in his gilded car ; Bare the mean heart that lurks beneath a star ; Can there be wanting, to defend her cause, Lights of the Church, or guardians of the laws ? no Could pension'd Boileau lash in honest strain Flatt'rers and bigots ev'n in Louis
Side 353 - I touch thee ! but with honest zeal, To rouse the watchmen of the public weal, To virtue's work provoke the tardy hall, And goad the prelate, slumbering in his stall.
Side 15 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage!' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Side 20 - It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent: Alas! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates in high heroic prose, And ridicules beyond a hundred...