The Works of Alexander Pope: LettersA. Millar [and others], 1757 |
De dentro do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 8
Página 121
... seem borrowed from the Thought of that Master of a Show in Smithfield , who writ in large letters , over the picture of his elephant , This is the greatest Elephant in the world , except Himfelf . However our next inftance is certainly ...
... seem borrowed from the Thought of that Master of a Show in Smithfield , who writ in large letters , over the picture of his elephant , This is the greatest Elephant in the world , except Himfelf . However our next inftance is certainly ...
Página 156
... may facilitate this great end . As our number is confeffedly far fuperior to that of the enemy , there seems nothing wanting but Una- Theob , Double Falfhood . imity among ourfelves . It is therefore humbly ffered , 156 MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS.
... may facilitate this great end . As our number is confeffedly far fuperior to that of the enemy , there seems nothing wanting but Una- Theob , Double Falfhood . imity among ourfelves . It is therefore humbly ffered , 156 MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS.
Página 253
... seem larger or higher than he is , it is " ordered , he fhall wear red heels to his fhoes , and 66 a red feather in his hat ; which may apparently " mark and fet bounds to the extremities of his fmall " dimenfion , that all people may ...
... seem larger or higher than he is , it is " ordered , he fhall wear red heels to his fhoes , and 66 a red feather in his hat ; which may apparently " mark and fet bounds to the extremities of his fmall " dimenfion , that all people may ...
Página 278
... seems to have affected the compound epithets . This was a fort of compofition peculiarly proper to poetry , not only as it heighten'd the diction , but as it affifted and filled the numbers with greater found and pomp , and likewife ...
... seems to have affected the compound epithets . This was a fort of compofition peculiarly proper to poetry , not only as it heighten'd the diction , but as it affifted and filled the numbers with greater found and pomp , and likewife ...
Página 284
... seem rather to charge him with a defect or narrowness of genius , than an excess of it ; thofe feeming defects will be found up- on examination to proceed wholly from the nature of the times he lived in . Such are his groffer representa ...
... seem rather to charge him with a defect or narrowness of genius , than an excess of it ; thofe feeming defects will be found up- on examination to proceed wholly from the nature of the times he lived in . Such are his groffer representa ...
Outras edições - Ver todos
Termos e frases comuns
againſt alfo almoſt alſo ancient animals Bathos becauſe befides Black and White caft cafus caufe cauſe compofed Cornelius courſe Crambe defcription defign defire diſcovered diſtinguiſhes Eclogues excellent expreffion faid fame feems feveral fhall fhort fhould filly fimplicity fince firft firſt fome fometimes fubject fuch fure Genius greateſt hath himſelf Homer honour Horſes Iliad inftance itſelf juft Juftice juſt Lady laft Laureate learned leaſt lefs manner Maſter meaſure Minifters modern moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary never obferve occafion paffages paffion pafs Paftoral pariſh perfon pleaſe pleaſure poem Poet Poet Laureate poetry praiſe prefent publick publiſhed Pyed pyed Horfes quam raiſe reader reaſon reft ſeems Shakeſpear ſhall ſhe ſome ſpeak ſpirit ſuch thefe themſelves Theocritus theſe thing thofe thor thoſe thou thought thro tion tranflator unto uſe verfe Virgil whofe whole words writers
Passagens mais conhecidas
Página 282 - Homer was the greater genius ; Virgil, the better artist. In one we most admire the man ; in the other, the work. Homer hurries and transports us with a commanding impetuosity; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty...
Página 307 - ... between penetration and felicity, he hits upon that particular point on which the bent of each argument turns, or the force of each motive depends.
Página 202 - Jerusalem with iniquity: the heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, "Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.
Página 316 - Spenser, whom he will not allow to be great enough to be ranked with him; and challenges the names of Sophocles, Euripides, and...
Página 164 - To make an Episode. Take any remaining adventure of your former collection in which you could no way involve your hero, or any unfortunate accident that was too good to be thrown away, and it will be of use applied to any other person, who may be lost and evaporate in the course of the work without the least damage to the composition.
Página 309 - The audience was generally composed of the meaner sort of people; and therefore the images of life were to be drawn from those of their own rank. Accordingly we find that not our author's only but almost all the old comedies have their scene among tradesmen and mechanics; and even their historical plays strictly follow the common old stories or vulgar traditions of that kind of people.
Página 306 - ... him. His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies of her. Those of other poets have a constant resemblance, which...
Página 273 - ... and after all the various changes of times and religions, his gods continue to this day the gods of poetry.
Página 288 - OdyfTes above the yEneis : as that the. hero is a wifer man ; and the action of the one more beneficial to his country than that of the other : or...
Página 241 - Locke takes notice of a mother who permitted them to her children, but rewarded or punished them as they treated them well or ill. This was no other than entering them betimes into a daily...