The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others: To which Were Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks, Band 6C. and J. Rivington, 1824 |
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... cause engaged , And conscious villains trembled as he raged . Then sportive HORACE caught the generous fire ; 375 For SATIRE's bow resign'd the sounding lyre : Each arrow polish'd in his hand was seen , And , as it grew more polish'd ...
... cause engaged , And conscious villains trembled as he raged . Then sportive HORACE caught the generous fire ; 375 For SATIRE's bow resign'd the sounding lyre : Each arrow polish'd in his hand was seen , And , as it grew more polish'd ...
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... cause ; for that nothing has less feeling than this sort of offenders ; which he illustrates in the examples of a damned Poet , a detected Slanderer , a Table - Parasite , a Church - Buffoon , and a Party - Writer ( from ver . 1 to 101 ) ...
... cause ; for that nothing has less feeling than this sort of offenders ; which he illustrates in the examples of a damned Poet , a detected Slanderer , a Table - Parasite , a Church - Buffoon , and a Party - Writer ( from ver . 1 to 101 ) ...
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... cause of reve- lation against the attacks of Bolingbroke and Chesterfield . Warton . Ver . 13. Mint ] A place to which insolvent debtors retired , to enjoy an illegal protection , which they were there suffered to af- ford to one ...
... cause of reve- lation against the attacks of Bolingbroke and Chesterfield . Warton . Ver . 13. Mint ] A place to which insolvent debtors retired , to enjoy an illegal protection , which they were there suffered to af- ford to one ...
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... cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope , And curses wit , and poetry , and Pope . 25 Friend to my life , ( which did not you prolong , The world had wanted many an idle song ) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or ...
... cause : Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope , And curses wit , and poetry , and Pope . 25 Friend to my life , ( which did not you prolong , The world had wanted many an idle song ) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or ...
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... cause of religion . In a letter to Dr. Swift , in 1732 , he has these words- " But , thank God , he has not taken from me the freedom I have been accustomed to in my discourse ( even with the greatest persons to whom I have access ) in ...
... cause of religion . In a letter to Dr. Swift , in 1732 , he has these words- " But , thank God , he has not taken from me the freedom I have been accustomed to in my discourse ( even with the greatest persons to whom I have access ) in ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Addison admirable alludes atque Augustus Ben Jonson Bishop Boileau Bolingbroke Bowles called character corruption court Cùm Dialogue divine Donne Dryden Dunciad Earl Elijah Fenton Epistle father flatterers folly fool genius give grace heart honest honour Horace Houyhnhnm humour imitation king Lady laugh learned letter libels lines live Lord Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke Lord Cornbury Lucilius malè manner mihi minister moral Muse nature ne'er never NOTES numbers nunc o'er original passage person Pindaric pleased poem poet poet's poetry Pope Pope's praise quæ Queen Quid quod racter rage rhyme ridicule Sappho satire says sense shew Sir Robert Walpole smile soul spirit style Swift tamen taste tell thee thing thou thought tibi tion translation truth Twickenham verse vice virtue virtue's Voltaire Warburton Warton Whig words writ write wrote
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 177 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Seite 82 - Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all seesaw, between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis.
Seite 41 - A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross?
Seite 36 - 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!
Seite 40 - tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Seite 75 - Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do:) Maintain a Poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please : Above a Patron, tho...
Seite 414 - ... male necne Lepos saltet; sed quod magis ad nos pertinet et nescire malum est agitamus: utrumne divitiis homines an sint virtute beati; quidve ad amicitias, usus rectumne, trahat nos; 75 et quae sit natura boni summumque quid eius.
Seite 464 - So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along : But such is thy avarice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must have starved, and the poet have died. THE BALANCE OF EUROPE. Now Europe balanced, neither side prevails ; For nothing's left in either of the scales.
Seite 81 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings...
Seite 63 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike, Alike...