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 1C. and J. Rivington, 1824 |
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... uninformed , such passages from his works as the biographer most admires . This mode of composition is scarcely dealing fairly with the reader . If we wish to know the merits of an author , we can have recourse b 2 PREFACE .
... uninformed , such passages from his works as the biographer most admires . This mode of composition is scarcely dealing fairly with the reader . If we wish to know the merits of an author , we can have recourse b 2 PREFACE .
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... wishes to be acquainted with these , need resort to no other source . We may there be informed of the economy of his dressing - room , to the minut- est particulars ; and of his " petty peculiari- ties , " as communicated by a female ...
... wishes to be acquainted with these , need resort to no other source . We may there be informed of the economy of his dressing - room , to the minut- est particulars ; and of his " petty peculiari- ties , " as communicated by a female ...
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... wish to be- come acquainted with the individual in the most important transactions and the most de- liberate and serious concerns of his life . At the same time we must not forget to make due allowance for those feelings of partiality ...
... wish to be- come acquainted with the individual in the most important transactions and the most de- liberate and serious concerns of his life . At the same time we must not forget to make due allowance for those feelings of partiality ...
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... wish is felt for improve- ment , there is sufficient time in riper years to gra- tify it to its full extent . But where this is de- stroyed , as is generally the case where severity is resorted to , the actual acquisition is of little ...
... wish is felt for improve- ment , there is sufficient time in riper years to gra- tify it to its full extent . But where this is de- stroyed , as is generally the case where severity is resorted to , the actual acquisition is of little ...
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... wish to obtain an intimate acquaintance with the secret springs and causes of one of the most important political events that has occurred in the history of our country , we must have recourse to his Journal to Stella ; the most ...
... wish to obtain an intimate acquaintance with the secret springs and causes of one of the most important political events that has occurred in the history of our country , we must have recourse to his Journal to Stella ; the most ...
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Página 169 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, 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...
Página 212 - For forms of government let fools contest: Whate'er is best administer'd is best: For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right; In faith and hope the world will disagree.
Página 170 - 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 reserved to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading even fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause...
Página 9 - 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 146 - Statesman, yet friend to truth ; of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear ; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title,' and who lost no friend ; Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, And prais'd, unenvied, by the Muse he lov'd.
Página 562 - Horace, and, though lean, am short, Ammon's great son one shoulder had too high, Such Ovid's nose, and "Sir! you have an eye"— Go on, obliging creatures, make me see All that disgraced my betters, met in me. Say for my comfort, languishing in bed, "Just so immortal Maro held his head:" And when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago.
Página 221 - It is finished with shells, interspersed with pieces of looking-glass in angular forms, and in the ceiling is a star of the same material, at which, when a lamp (of an orbicular figure of thin alabaster) is hung in the middle, a thousand pointed rays glitter and are reflected over the place.
Página 225 - tis true—this truth you lovers know—• " In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow, " In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes " Of hanging mountains, and of sloping greens : " Joy lives not here; to happier seats it flies, " And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes.
Página 170 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying all abroad?
Página 169 - The next day, while I was heated with what I had heard, I wrote a letter to Mr. Addison, to let him know that I was not unacquainted with this behaviour of his; that if I was to speak severely of him in return for it, it should not be in such a dirty way; that I should rather tell him himself fairly of his faults, and allow his good qualities; and that it should be something in the following manner.