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 91
... themselves in pick- ing up fhells and pebbles on the fea - shore , Bolingbroke is here represented as pouring out himself to his .. friend in the moft free and unreferved converfations on topics the moft interesting and important But ...
... themselves in pick- ing up fhells and pebbles on the fea - shore , Bolingbroke is here represented as pouring out himself to his .. friend in the moft free and unreferved converfations on topics the moft interesting and important But ...
Side 111
... themselves at home . 96 100 Why had not I in those good times my birth , Ere coxcomb - pies or coxcombs were on earth ? Unworthy he , the voice of Fame to hear , " That sweetest mufic to an honeft ear , ( For ' faith , Lord Fanny ! you ...
... themselves at home . 96 100 Why had not I in those good times my birth , Ere coxcomb - pies or coxcombs were on earth ? Unworthy he , the voice of Fame to hear , " That sweetest mufic to an honeft ear , ( For ' faith , Lord Fanny ! you ...
Side 116
... themselves his friends would not believe ) his thoughts in profe and verse were the fame . WARBURTON . VER . 171-2 . Or in pure equity , ( the cafe not clear , ) The Chanc❜ry takes your rents for twenty year : ] A Proteftant Mifer's ...
... themselves his friends would not believe ) his thoughts in profe and verse were the fame . WARBURTON . VER . 171-2 . Or in pure equity , ( the cafe not clear , ) The Chanc❜ry takes your rents for twenty year : ] A Proteftant Mifer's ...
Side 116
... themselves his friends would not believe ) his thoughts in profe and verse were the fame . WARBURTON . VER . 171.2 . Or in pure equity , ( the cafe not clear , ) The Chanc'ry takes your rents for twenty year : ] A Proteftant Mifer's ...
... themselves his friends would not believe ) his thoughts in profe and verse were the fame . WARBURTON . VER . 171.2 . Or in pure equity , ( the cafe not clear , ) The Chanc'ry takes your rents for twenty year : ] A Proteftant Mifer's ...
Side 133
... themselves fo little what to do ? Alike in nothing but one Luft of Gold , C 120 Just half the land would buy , and half be fold : 125 Their Country's Wealth our mightier Mifers drain , Or crofs , to plunder Provinces , the Main ; The ...
... themselves fo little what to do ? Alike in nothing but one Luft of Gold , C 120 Just half the land would buy , and half be fold : 125 Their Country's Wealth our mightier Mifers drain , Or crofs , to plunder Provinces , the Main ; The ...
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Addiſon againſt alfo alludes Author becauſe beſt Boileau Brutus caufe cauſe character circumftance Court defire Dryden Dunciad Effay Elijah Fenton Epiftle ev'n ev'ry expreffion faid fame fatire fays feems fenfe fentiments feveral fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fome fometimes fool fpeak fpirit ftill ftyle fubject fuch fuperior genius himſelf Homer honour Horace houſe Iliad imitation juſt King laft laſt leaſt lefs letter lines Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Hervey mafter manner minifter moft moſt muſt nature never NOTES numbers obferved occafion paffage paffions perfon Pindar pleaſe pleaſure poem Poet poetry Pope Pope's praiſe prefent profe publiſhed purpoſe quæ quid quod raiſed reaſon refpect ridicule Satire ſay Shakeſpear Sir Robert Walpole ſpeak ſtate ſtill ſtyle ſuch Swift thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thought thouſand tranflation uſed verfe verſe Virgil Virtue Walpole WARBURTON WARTON whofe whoſe words write
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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...