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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... play Prologue to the Three Hours after Marriage Sandys ' Ghost Umbra Page · 430 435 445 447 450 · . 451 · 4.52 454 455 • . 457 Sylvia , a Fragment Impromptu to Lady Winchelsea Epigram • Epigram on the Feuds about Handel and Bonon- cini ...
... play Prologue to the Three Hours after Marriage Sandys ' Ghost Umbra Page · 430 435 445 447 450 · . 451 · 4.52 454 455 • . 457 Sylvia , a Fragment Impromptu to Lady Winchelsea Epigram • Epigram on the Feuds about Handel and Bonon- cini ...
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... play of his failed , but was very cold to him if he met with success . He sometimes used to say that Crown had some genius : but then he added always , that his father and Crown's mother were very well acquainted . " Mr. Pope to Mr ...
... play of his failed , but was very cold to him if he met with success . He sometimes used to say that Crown had some genius : but then he added always , that his father and Crown's mother were very well acquainted . " Mr. Pope to Mr ...
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... play upon words . But our important lawyer takes no notice of the jest , and finishes with a gravity suited to his character : " Solventur risu tabulæ : tu missus abibis . " Warton . Such as Sir ROBERT would approve- F. Indeed ? The 118 ...
... play upon words . But our important lawyer takes no notice of the jest , and finishes with a gravity suited to his character : " Solventur risu tabulæ : tu missus abibis . " Warton . Such as Sir ROBERT would approve- F. Indeed ? The 118 ...
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... play ) That touch my bell , I cannot turn away . ' Tis true , no ' turbots dignify my boards , But gudgeons , flounders , what my Thames affords ; To Hounslow - heath I point , and Bansted - down , Thence comes your mutton , and these ...
... play ) That touch my bell , I cannot turn away . ' Tis true , no ' turbots dignify my boards , But gudgeons , flounders , what my Thames affords ; To Hounslow - heath I point , and Bansted - down , Thence comes your mutton , and these ...
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... Arms . Bowles . Ver . 87. Or if three ladies like a luckless play , ] The common reader , I am sensible , will be always more solicitous about the names Is wealth thy passion ? Hence ! from pole to 178 BOOK I. IMITATIONS.
... Arms . Bowles . Ver . 87. Or if three ladies like a luckless play , ] The common reader , I am sensible , will be always more solicitous about the names Is wealth thy passion ? Hence ! from pole to 178 BOOK I. IMITATIONS.
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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
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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...