Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson, and S. Draper, 1751 |
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Alexander Pope. MEMOIRS of 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 Page ERRAT A. 6 1. 8 for Hacc r . Hac 14 1. 4 for quas res r . quam rem 122 ...
Alexander Pope. MEMOIRS of 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 Page ERRAT A. 6 1. 8 for Hacc r . Hac 14 1. 4 for quas res r . quam rem 122 ...
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... Poet excells 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 fami- liar ; or , if he be , it is the familiarity of Courts , which is never without ...
... Poet excells 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 fami- liar ; or , if he be , it is the familiarity of Courts , which is never without ...
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... Poet Shin'd in Description , he might show it ; Tell how the Moon - beam trembling falls , And tips with Silver 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 show it ; Tell how the Moon - beam trembling falls , And tips with Silver all the walls ; Palladian walls , Venetian doors , Grotefco roofs , and Stucco floors : But let it ( in a word ) be faid ...
Side 37
... Poet , and they died . In vain they schem'd , in vain they bled ! They had no Poet , and are dead . MISCELLANIES . 1 ‡ D4 ་ ་ The De EPISTLE D3 Ode IX . OF H OR A C ́E . 37.
... Poet , and they died . In vain they schem'd , in vain they bled ! They had no Poet , and are dead . MISCELLANIES . 1 ‡ D4 ་ ་ The De EPISTLE D3 Ode IX . OF H OR A C ́E . 37.
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... Poet fung , SUCH ' Till Death untimely ftop'd his tuneful tongue . Oh just beheld , and loft ! admir'd and mourn'd ! With softeft manners , gentleft arts adorn'd ! Bleft in each science , bleft in ev'ry strain ! Dear to the Muse ! to ...
... Poet fung , SUCH ' Till Death untimely ftop'd his tuneful tongue . Oh just beheld , and loft ! admir'd and mourn'd ! With softeft manners , gentleft arts adorn'd ! Bleft in each science , bleft in ev'ry strain ! Dear to the Muse ! to ...
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againſt alfo almoſt alſo ancient Bathos beauty becauſe caft caufe cauſe Cornelius courſe Crambe criticks defcribed defcription defign defire diſtinguiſh Eclogues excellent expreffion faid fame feem feveral fhall fimplicity fince fingle firft firſt fome fometimes Friend ftill ftrong fuch genius greateſt hath himſelf Homer honour Houſe Iliad inftances itſelf juſt Lady laft learned leaſt lefs leſs Lord manner maſter meaſure modern moft moſt muſt myſelf nature neceffary never obferve occafion paffages paffion Paftoral perfon pleaſe pleaſure poem Poet poetry praiſe preſent primus ab Profund publick publiſhed racter raiſe reader reafon rifes ſay ſcenes Scriblerus ſeems ſeveral Shakeſpear ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſpeak ſubject ſuch thee thefe themſelves Theocritus ther theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought thro tion tranflation univerfal uſe verfe verſes Virgil whofe whole words write
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Side 386 - The audience was generally composed of the meaner sort of people; and therefore the images of life were to be drawn from those of their own rank. Accordingly we find that not our author's only but almost all the old comedies have their scene among tradesmen and mechanics; and even their historical plays strictly follow the common old stories or vulgar traditions of that kind of people.
Side 286 - Jerusalem with iniquity: the heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, "Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.
Side 322 - However it be, I do not know, I say, why this prejudice, well improved and carried as far as it would go, might not be made to conduce to the preservation of many innocent creatures, which are now exposed to all the wantonness of an ignorant barbarity.
Side 92 - Who knew no Wish but what the world might hear : Of softest manners, unaffected mind, Lover of peace, and friend of human kind : Go live ! for Heav'n's Eternal year is thine, Go, and exalt thy Moral to Divine.
Side 352 - 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 388 - Another cause (and no less strong than the former) may be deduced from our author's being a player, and forming himself first upon the judgments of that body of men whereof he was a member.
Side 196 - But all that lies between thefe, as Corn, Flower, Fruits...
Side 396 - ... 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 378 - ... with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns. Next...
Side 388 - ... 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.