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 4
... true ; but I have for the most part fpared their Names , and they may escape being laughed at , if they please . I would have fome of them know , it was owing to the request of the learned and candid Friend to whom it is infcribed ...
... true ; but I have for the most part fpared their Names , and they may escape being laughed at , if they please . I would have fome of them know , it was owing to the request of the learned and candid Friend to whom it is infcribed ...
Side 8
... true Poet , he breaks out into a passionate vow for a continuance of the full Liberty infeparable from it . And to fhew how well he deferves it , and how fafely he might be trusted with it , he concludes his wish with a defcription of ...
... true Poet , he breaks out into a passionate vow for a continuance of the full Liberty infeparable from it . And to fhew how well he deferves it , and how fafely he might be trusted with it , he concludes his wish with a defcription of ...
Side 21
... true in fact : " I have obferved that a reader feldom perufes a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or fair man , of a mild or choleric difpofition , married or a bachelor . " What paffages in Horace are ...
... true in fact : " I have obferved that a reader feldom perufes a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or fair man , of a mild or choleric difpofition , married or a bachelor . " What paffages in Horace are ...
Side 26
... true Character of defcrip . tive poetry , as it is called . A compofition , in his opinion , as abfurd as a feast made up of fauces . The office of a picturesque ima . gination is to brighten and adorn good fenfe ; fo that to employ it ...
... true Character of defcrip . tive poetry , as it is called . A compofition , in his opinion , as abfurd as a feast made up of fauces . The office of a picturesque ima . gination is to brighten and adorn good fenfe ; fo that to employ it ...
Side 30
... true , these were lavished upon his enemies : for his friends he had other things in flore . In a letter to Thuanus , fpeaking of two of them , Clavius and Lipfius , he calls the first a monfler of ignorance ; and Pretty ! in amber to ...
... true , these were lavished upon his enemies : for his friends he had other things in flore . In a letter to Thuanus , fpeaking of two of them , Clavius and Lipfius , he calls the first a monfler of ignorance ; and Pretty ! in amber to ...
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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...