The Works of Alexander Pope: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... imagine , cuncta refigno ; Nec fomnum plebis laudo fatur altilium , nec Otia divitiis Arabum liberrima muto . Saepe verecundum laudafti : Rexque , Paterque Audifti coram , nec verbo parcius abfens : Infpice , fi poffum donata reponere ...
... imagine , cuncta refigno ; Nec fomnum plebis laudo fatur altilium , nec Otia divitiis Arabum liberrima muto . Saepe verecundum laudafti : Rexque , Paterque Audifti coram , nec verbo parcius abfens : Infpice , fi poffum donata reponere ...
Side 101
... imagine it might be that univerfal Genius whofe life I am writing . I returned home , and having maturely confidered their feveral arguments , which I found to be of equal weight , I quieted my curiosity with this natural conclufion ...
... imagine it might be that univerfal Genius whofe life I am writing . I returned home , and having maturely confidered their feveral arguments , which I found to be of equal weight , I quieted my curiosity with this natural conclufion ...
Side 135
... da s ; and can we be fo vain to imagine that the Microcofm of the human body alone is exempted from the fate of all things ? I ‡ K 4 question queftion not but plaufible Conjectures may be made even as MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS . 135.
... da s ; and can we be fo vain to imagine that the Microcofm of the human body alone is exempted from the fate of all things ? I ‡ K 4 question queftion not but plaufible Conjectures may be made even as MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS . 135.
Side 156
... imagine them to belong to a Sur- geon of a Ship , or a Captain of a Merchantman , let him remain in his Ignorance . And whoever he be , that fhall farther obferve , in every page of fuch a book , that cordial Love of Mankind , that ...
... imagine them to belong to a Sur- geon of a Ship , or a Captain of a Merchantman , let him remain in his Ignorance . And whoever he be , that fhall farther obferve , in every page of fuch a book , that cordial Love of Mankind , that ...
Side 181
... imagine they may be fafe by tempo- rizing between the extremes ) that where there is not a Triticalnefs or Mediocrity in the Thought , it can never be funk into the genuine and perfect Bathos , by the moft elaborate low Expreffion : It ...
... imagine they may be fafe by tempo- rizing between the extremes ) that where there is not a Triticalnefs or Mediocrity in the Thought , it can never be funk into the genuine and perfect Bathos , by the moft elaborate low Expreffion : It ...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and prose Alexander Pope Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1757 |
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Populære avsnitt
Side 290 - Homer makes us hearers, and Virgil leaves us readers. If in the next place we take a view of the sentiments, the same presiding faculty is eminent in the sublimity and spirit of his thoughts. Longinus has given his opinion, that it was in this part Homer principally excelled.
Side 81 - Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
Side 196 - Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy!
Side 280 - I know an eminent cook, who beautified his country seat with a coronation dinner in greens ; where you see the champion flourishing on horseback at one end of the table, and the queen in perpetual youth at the other.
Side 309 - ... to consider him attentively in comparison with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns.
Side 284 - 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 327 - Prose from verse they did not know, and they accordingly printed one for the other throughout the volume.
Side 288 - Every one has something so singularly his own, that no painter could have distinguished them more by their features, than the poet has by their manners.
Side 289 - Idomeneus a plain, direct soldier ; in Sarpedon, a gallant and generous one. Nor is this judicious and...
Side 331 - 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...