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, Volume 6C. and J. Rivington, 1824 |
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... excellent friend Dr. Arbuthnot ; who , although as a man of wit and learning he might not have been displeased to see their common injuries revenged on this per- nicious tribe ; yet , as our author's friend and physician , he was ...
... excellent friend Dr. Arbuthnot ; who , although as a man of wit and learning he might not have been displeased to see their common injuries revenged on this per- nicious tribe ; yet , as our author's friend and physician , he was ...
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... excellent understanding . The other two , with very bad heads , had hearts still worse . Warburton . Ver . 148. While pure description held the place of sense ? ] He uses pure equivocally , to signify either chaste or empty ; and has ...
... excellent understanding . The other two , with very bad heads , had hearts still worse . Warburton . Ver . 148. While pure description held the place of sense ? ] He uses pure equivocally , to signify either chaste or empty ; and has ...
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... excellent remarks in Acro and Porphyrio : from whom , as well as from Cruquius , Dacier has borrowed much , without owning it . Dacier's translation of Horace is not equal to his Aristotle's Poetics . In the former he is perpetually ...
... excellent remarks in Acro and Porphyrio : from whom , as well as from Cruquius , Dacier has borrowed much , without owning it . Dacier's translation of Horace is not equal to his Aristotle's Poetics . In the former he is perpetually ...
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... excellent man , who had always served his friends with warmth , ( witness his kindness to Thomson , ) and his country with activity and zeal . His Poems and Dialogues of the Dead are written with elegance and ease ; his observations on ...
... excellent man , who had always served his friends with warmth , ( witness his kindness to Thomson , ) and his country with activity and zeal . His Poems and Dialogues of the Dead are written with elegance and ease ; his observations on ...
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... excellent : his translation of the thir- teenth Satire of Juvenal ; equal to any Dryden has given us of that author . Warton . Ver . 8. trust the Ruler ] This last line is quaint and even ob- scure ; the two first vigorously expressed ...
... excellent : his translation of the thir- teenth Satire of Juvenal ; equal to any Dryden has given us of that author . Warton . Ver . 8. trust the Ruler ] This last line is quaint and even ob- scure ; the two first vigorously expressed ...
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Página 177 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Página 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.
Página 41 - A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross?
Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 81 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings...
Página 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...