The Age of Pope (1700-1744).G. Bell and sons, 1899 - 260 páginas |
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... eighteenth century versemen , who appear to have looked upon satire as the beginning and thé end of poetry . Moreover Dryden may be regarded , without much B exaggeration , as the father of modern prose . Nothing INTRODUCTION.
... eighteenth century versemen , who appear to have looked upon satire as the beginning and thé end of poetry . Moreover Dryden may be regarded , without much B exaggeration , as the father of modern prose . Nothing INTRODUCTION.
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... satire exhibited in verse and prose , to a regard for correctness of form and to the sen- sitive avoidance of extremes . The poets of the period are for the most part without enthusiasm , without passion , and without the ' fine madness ...
... satire exhibited in verse and prose , to a regard for correctness of form and to the sen- sitive avoidance of extremes . The poets of the period are for the most part without enthusiasm , without passion , and without the ' fine madness ...
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... satire . It would be difficult to estimate with any measure of accuracy the effect of French literature on the Queen Anne authors . There is no question that they were considerably attracted by it , but its sway was , I think , never ...
... satire . It would be difficult to estimate with any measure of accuracy the effect of French literature on the Queen Anne authors . There is no question that they were considerably attracted by it , but its sway was , I think , never ...
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... satire written at a later date , in which Addison appears under the character of Atticus . ' It is necessary to add here that the whole story of the quarrel comes to us from Pope , who is never to be trusted , either in prose or verse ...
... satire written at a later date , in which Addison appears under the character of Atticus . ' It is necessary to add here that the whole story of the quarrel comes to us from Pope , who is never to be trusted , either in prose or verse ...
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... satire . He was not a man to rise above his age , and it would be charitable to ascribe a portion of his grossness to it . Voltaire is said by his loose talk to have driven Pope's good old mother from the table at Twickenham ; Walpole's ...
... satire . He was not a man to rise above his age , and it would be charitable to ascribe a portion of his grossness to it . Voltaire is said by his loose talk to have driven Pope's good old mother from the table at Twickenham ; Walpole's ...
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Página 99 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Página 92 - I hear a voice, you cannot hear, Which says, I must not stay; I see a hand, you cannot see, Which beckons me away.
Página 26 - Ixion fixed, the wretch shall feel The giddy motion of the whirling mill, In fumes of burning chocolate shall glow, And tremble at the sea that froths below!
Página 128 - She was a very beautiful woman, of a noble spirit, and there was a dignity in her grief amidst all the wildness of her transport; which, methought, struck me with an instinct of sorrow, that, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since.
Página 196 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Página 66 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man...
Página 73 - As home he goes beneath the joyous moon. Ye that keep watch in heaven, as earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, Ye constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre. Great source of day! best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam His praise.
Página 26 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride...
Página 224 - Comes slowly grazing through the adjoining meads, Whose stealing pace and lengthened shade we fear, Till torn-up forage in his teeth we hear; When nibbling sheep at large pursue their food, And unmolested kine rechew the cud; When curlews cry beneath the village walls, And to her straggling brood the partridge calls...
Página 98 - Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which he did with such judgment and such fancy, as made his little domain the envy of the great, and the admiration of the .skilful ; a place to be visited by travellers, and copied by designers.