The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe, Volume 21847 |
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Página 177
... admirable , and should be only mentioned as a fact . The imitator has destroyed the whole beauty of the line , by a quaint anti- thesis , and a laboured arrangement of words , which are not natural in affliction . - Bowles . VOL . II ...
... admirable , and should be only mentioned as a fact . The imitator has destroyed the whole beauty of the line , by a quaint anti- thesis , and a laboured arrangement of words , which are not natural in affliction . - Bowles . VOL . II ...
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... admirable piece , even exclusive of its poetry , is highly valuable , as it preserves to us the liveliest and exactest picture of the manners , customs , characters , and habits , of our forefathers , whom he has brought before our eyes ...
... admirable piece , even exclusive of its poetry , is highly valuable , as it preserves to us the liveliest and exactest picture of the manners , customs , characters , and habits , of our forefathers , whom he has brought before our eyes ...
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... admirable judgment , and delineated with the finest taste . - Wakefield . The Ver . 210. Four swans sustain , & c . ] Pindar being seated in a chariot , alludes to the chariot - races he celebrated in the Grecian games . swans are ...
... admirable judgment , and delineated with the finest taste . - Wakefield . The Ver . 210. Four swans sustain , & c . ] Pindar being seated in a chariot , alludes to the chariot - races he celebrated in the Grecian games . swans are ...
Página 284
... admirable flavour ! " The same Lord Peter , in Swift , performs throughout the very part that Mero plays in Fontenelle . Thus all is imitation . The idea of the Persian letters is taken from the Turkish Spy . Boiardo has imitated Pulci ...
... admirable flavour ! " The same Lord Peter , in Swift , performs throughout the very part that Mero plays in Fontenelle . Thus all is imitation . The idea of the Persian letters is taken from the Turkish Spy . Boiardo has imitated Pulci ...
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... admirable direction given ver . 51 . AND MARK THAT POINT WHERE SENSE AND DULNESS MEET . He had shown above , that Judgment , without Taste or Genius , is equally incapable of making a Critic or a Poet . In whatsoever subject then the ...
... admirable direction given ver . 51 . AND MARK THAT POINT WHERE SENSE AND DULNESS MEET . He had shown above , that Judgment , without Taste or Genius , is equally incapable of making a Critic or a Poet . In whatsoever subject then the ...
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Página 40 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread. Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Página 341 - Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Página 318 - To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. Some few in that, but numbers err in this, Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss; A fool might once himself alone expose, Now one in verse makes many more in prose. 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Página 346 - 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 410 - At every word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. Meanwhile, declining from the noon of day, The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray ; The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang, that jurymen may dine; The merchant from th* Exchange returns in peace, And the long labours of the toilet cease.
Página 87 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Página 402 - Now awful beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms, Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face : Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes.
Página 83 - All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee : they shall come up with acceptance on Mine altar, and I will glorify the house of My glory.
Página 344 - 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 unvary'd chimes, With sure Returns of still expected rhymes; Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...
Página 325 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same...