The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... hand ftrike out fome free defign , Where Life awakes , and dawns at ev'ry line ; Or blend in beauteous tints the colour'd mass , And from the canvas call the mimic face : Read these instructive leaves , in which confpire Fresnoy's close ...
... hand ftrike out fome free defign , Where Life awakes , and dawns at ev'ry line ; Or blend in beauteous tints the colour'd mass , And from the canvas call the mimic face : Read these instructive leaves , in which confpire Fresnoy's close ...
Side 46
... - rected by his own hand . - The humour of it confifts in this , that the one is in love with the Game , and the other with the Sharper . As 3 As You by Love , so I by Fortune cross't 46 MISCELLANIE S. The BASSET TABLE, an Eclogue.
... - rected by his own hand . - The humour of it confifts in this , that the one is in love with the Game , and the other with the Sharper . As 3 As You by Love , so I by Fortune cross't 46 MISCELLANIE S. The BASSET TABLE, an Eclogue.
Side 52
... hand Dame Justice past along . Before her each with clamour pleads the Laws , Explain'd the matter and would win the caufe . Dame Justice weighing long the doubtful Right , Takes , opens , fwallows it before their fight . The cause of ...
... hand Dame Justice past along . Before her each with clamour pleads the Laws , Explain'd the matter and would win the caufe . Dame Justice weighing long the doubtful Right , Takes , opens , fwallows it before their fight . The cause of ...
Side 71
... hands ; yet, if we except the Epitaph on the young Duke of Buckingham? and perhaps one or two more, they are not of equal force with the rest of our Author's writings. The nature of the Composition itself is delicate, and generally it ...
... hands ; yet, if we except the Epitaph on the young Duke of Buckingham? and perhaps one or two more, they are not of equal force with the rest of our Author's writings. The nature of the Composition itself is delicate, and generally it ...
Side 71
... hands ; yet , if we except the Epitaph on the young Duke of Buckingham , and perhaps one or two more , they are not of equal force with the rest of our Author's writings . The na- ture of the Compofition itself is delicate , and ...
... hands ; yet , if we except the Epitaph on the young Duke of Buckingham , and perhaps one or two more , they are not of equal force with the rest of our Author's writings . The na- ture of the Compofition itself is delicate , and ...
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Side 328 - We shall hereby extenuate many faults which are his, and clear him from the imputation of many which are not...
Side 299 - If a council be called, or a battle fought, you are not coldly informed of what was said or done as from a third person; the reader is hurried out of himself by the force of the poet's imagination, and turns in one place to a hearer, in another to a spectator.
Side 323 - However, had he translated the whole work, I would no more have attempted Homer after him than Virgil, his Version of whom (notwithstanding some human errors) is the most noble and spirited translation I know in any language.
Side 299 - 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.
Side 44 - ... 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.
Side 307 - Aristotle had reason to say, he was the only poet who had found out living words ; there are in him more daring figures and metaphors than in any good author whatever. An arrow is impatient to be on the wing, a weapon thirsts to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like.
Side 346 - 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...
Side 339 - ... till after his death. The whole number of genuine plays, which we have been able to find printed in his lifetime, amounts but to eleven.
Side 12 - And that they ne'er consider'd yet. ' Good Mr. Dean, go change your gown, Let my lord know you're come to town.
Side 293 - ... masters, being wholly unconfined, and painting at pleasure, may be thought to have given a full idea of what they esteemed most excellent in this way. These (one may observe) consist entirely of the useful part of horticulture, fruit-trees, herbs, water, &c.