The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers, F.S.A. and Others. To which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author, Volum 4J. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son ... [and 24 others], 1806 |
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Side 47
... because our man- ners , as well as our dreffes , have been so much altered and changed within a few years . His Fables , the most popular of all his works , have the fault of many modern fable - writers , the afcribing , to the ...
... because our man- ners , as well as our dreffes , have been so much altered and changed within a few years . His Fables , the most popular of all his works , have the fault of many modern fable - writers , the afcribing , to the ...
Side 48
... because a poet fhould dare to bufy himself with politics . Racine had the weakness to take this anger fo much to heart , that it brought on a low fever which haftened his death . The Duchefs of Queensberry would not so have betrayed her ...
... because a poet fhould dare to bufy himself with politics . Racine had the weakness to take this anger fo much to heart , that it brought on a low fever which haftened his death . The Duchefs of Queensberry would not so have betrayed her ...
Side 65
... because admiration is turned into affection . In the very entertaining Memoirs of the Life of Racine ( published by his fon ) we find no paffage more amusing and interefting , than where that great Poet fends an excufe to Monfieur , the ...
... because admiration is turned into affection . In the very entertaining Memoirs of the Life of Racine ( published by his fon ) we find no paffage more amusing and interefting , than where that great Poet fends an excufe to Monfieur , the ...
Side 76
... because I writ it ; which I am freer to own , that Mat . Prior may not suffer in his reputation by having it afcribed to him . My humble service to Mr. Sacheverell , and ' Or , if you needs must write , write DUOTATIONS Book II .
... because I writ it ; which I am freer to own , that Mat . Prior may not suffer in his reputation by having it afcribed to him . My humble service to Mr. Sacheverell , and ' Or , if you needs must write , write DUOTATIONS Book II .
Side 80
... because he was an old raf , but because he was of an ancient equestrian famly , and was great uncle of Pompey the Great . ́ Lucilius , among other inaccuracies of ityle , fometimes Arangely disjoined ' . words , as in care comminuit ...
... because he was an old raf , but because he was of an ancient equestrian famly , and was great uncle of Pompey the Great . ́ Lucilius , among other inaccuracies of ityle , fometimes Arangely disjoined ' . words , as in care comminuit ...
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Side 45 - d by ev'ry quill ; Fed with soft dedication all day long, Horace and he went hand in hand in song.
Side 119 - For gain, not glory, wing'd his roving flight, And grew Immortal in his own despite.
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 56 - A Cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust; Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Side 165 - 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 391 - That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me; of whom it is hard to say whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing to his generosity or his example...
Side 56 - 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!
Side 65 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Side 309 - 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 353 - For we find thofe authors who have been offended at the literal notion of the Gods, conftantly laying their accufation againft Homer as the chief fupport of it. But whatever caufe there might be to blame his machines in a philofophical...