The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks,, Volume 3J. Rivington, 1824 |
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... judgment , the luxuriancies of his youthful imagination in future revisals of his works , and has retained this passage , I am very diffident of dissent from him in such cases . REMARKS . دو groves , which resemble the groves of Eden ...
... judgment , the luxuriancies of his youthful imagination in future revisals of his works , and has retained this passage , I am very diffident of dissent from him in such cases . REMARKS . دو groves , which resemble the groves of Eden ...
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... judgment ; he has made as manly use of as fabulous a circumstance by the art- ful application of the mythology . " Where , in their blessings , all those Gods appear , " & c . Making the nobility of the hills of Windsor - Forest to ...
... judgment ; he has made as manly use of as fabulous a circumstance by the art- ful application of the mythology . " Where , in their blessings , all those Gods appear , " & c . Making the nobility of the hills of Windsor - Forest to ...
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... judgment , has been the subject of frequent and of just admiration . It may fairly en- title him to the character of being one of the first of critics , though surely not of Poets , as Dr. Johnson asserts . Dr. Warburton , endeavouring ...
... judgment , has been the subject of frequent and of just admiration . It may fairly en- title him to the character of being one of the first of critics , though surely not of Poets , as Dr. Johnson asserts . Dr. Warburton , endeavouring ...
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... judgment , ver . 68 to 87 . Improved by Art and Rules , which are but methodis'd Nature , ver . 88 . Rules deriv'd from the Practice of the Ancient Poets , ver . 88 to 110 . That therefore the Ancients are necessary to he studied by a ...
... judgment , ver . 68 to 87 . Improved by Art and Rules , which are but methodis'd Nature , ver . 88 . Rules deriv'd from the Practice of the Ancient Poets , ver . 88 to 110 . That therefore the Ancients are necessary to he studied by a ...
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... Judgment ; and the third [ from thence to the end ] marks out the Morals of the Critic . In order to a right conception of this poem , it will be necessary to observe , that though it be intitled simply An Essay on Criticism , yet ...
... Judgment ; and the third [ from thence to the end ] marks out the Morals of the Critic . In order to a right conception of this poem , it will be necessary to observe , that though it be intitled simply An Essay on Criticism , yet ...
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Página 98 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with ' sleep': Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Página 101 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 93 - And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is still, — the style is excellent; The sense, they humbly take upon content. Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found...
Página 7 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again ; Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd : Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Página 186 - This day, black omens threat the brightest fair, That e'er deserv'da watchful spirit's care; Some dire disaster, or by force, or slight; But what, or where, the fates have wrapt in night. Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail china jar receive a flaw; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade; Forget her pray'rs, or miss a masquerade; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; Or whether Heav'n has doom'd that Shock must fall.
Página 97 - Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there.
Página 196 - T inclose the Lock ; now joins it, to divide. Ev'n then, before the fatal engine clos'd, A wretched Sylph too fondly interpos'd ; Fate urg'd the shears, and cut the Sylph in twain, But airy substance soon unites again,) ! The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, for ever, and for ever! Then flash'd the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th
Página 97 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes; Where'er you find 'the cooling western breeze...
Página 81 - While from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise!
Página 204 - fore Gad, you must be civil! "Plague on't! 'tis past a jest — nay prithee, pox! "Give her the hair" — he spoke, and rapp'd his box. "It grieves me much" (replied the Peer again) "Who speaks so well should ever speak in vain. But by this Lock, this sacred Lock I swear, (Which never more shall join its parted hair; Which...