The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions and Improvements, Volume 4T. & G. Palmer, 1804 - 754 páginas |
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... things be ever so inconsi- derable or trivial . Of the persons it was judged proper to give some account : for since it is only in this monument that they must expect to survive , ( and here survive they will , as long as the English ...
... things be ever so inconsi- derable or trivial . Of the persons it was judged proper to give some account : for since it is only in this monument that they must expect to survive , ( and here survive they will , as long as the English ...
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... that just at that juncture was published a ridi- culous book against him , full of personal reflections , which furnished him with a lucky opportunity of im- proving this poem , by giving it the only thing ADVERTISEMENT ...
... that just at that juncture was published a ridi- culous book against him , full of personal reflections , which furnished him with a lucky opportunity of im- proving this poem , by giving it the only thing ADVERTISEMENT ...
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... thing it wanted , a more considerable hero . He was always sensible of its defect in that particular , and owned he had let it pass with the hero it had , purely for want of a better , not entertaining the least expectation that such a ...
... thing it wanted , a more considerable hero . He was always sensible of its defect in that particular , and owned he had let it pass with the hero it had , purely for want of a better , not entertaining the least expectation that such a ...
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... things , chaos , night , and dulness , so is it of the most grave and ancient kind . Homer ( saith Aristotle ) was the first who gave the form , and ( saith Horace ) who adapted the measure , to heroic poesy . But even before this , may ...
... things , chaos , night , and dulness , so is it of the most grave and ancient kind . Homer ( saith Aristotle ) was the first who gave the form , and ( saith Horace ) who adapted the measure , to heroic poesy . But even before this , may ...
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... things from their original , he considereth the causes creative of such authors , namely , dulness and poverty ; the one with them , the other contracted by neglect of their proper talents , through self - conceit of greater abilities ...
... things from their original , he considereth the causes creative of such authors , namely , dulness and poverty ; the one with them , the other contracted by neglect of their proper talents , through self - conceit of greater abilities ...
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abuse Æneas Æneid Ahithophel ALEXANDER POPE Ambrose Philips ancient arts bard Bavius Behold booksellers brazen head bred cause Chaos character Cibber Codrus Concanen critics Curl declare Dennis divine Dryden dull Dulness dunce Dunciad edition empire of Dulness Essay on Criticism Eusden ev'ry eyes fool friends genius gentleman glory goddess gods grace hand happy hath head Heav'n hero heroic Homer honour Iliad Jacob JONATHAN SWIFT Journal king Latium laureate learned letters Lintot lord majesty Milbourn moral muse never Night o'er Ogilby Ovid person pert pleas'd poem poet poet's poetic poetry Pope Pope's pow'r pref printed prose queen race racter reign REMARKS roll round saith Scriblerus sense Silenus sing sleep sons soul Suidas thee thine things thou thro throne Tibbald translated verse vile Virgil virtue Welsted Whip and Key wings words writ writing youth
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Página 129 - Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, CHAOS! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all.
Página 107 - Placed at the door of learning, youth to guide, We never suffer it to stand too wide. To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence...
Página 129 - Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly! In vain ! they gaze, turn giddy, rave and die.
Página 102 - The moon-struck prophet felt the madding hour : Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out order, and extinguish light, Of dull and venal a new world to mould, And bring Saturnian days of lead and gold.
Página 108 - Muse gave o'er, There Talbot sunk, and was a wit no more ! How sweet an Ovid, Murray was our boast! How many Martials were in Pulteney lost!
Página 54 - There motley Images her fancy strike, Figures ill pair'd, and Similies unlike. She sees a Mob of Metaphors advance, Pleas'd with the madness of the mazy dance: How Tragedy and Comedy embrace; How Farce and Epic get a jumbled race; How Time himself stands still at her command, Realms shift their place, and Ocean turns to land.
Página 122 - On plain experience lay foundations low, By common sense to common knowledge bred, And last, to nature's cause through nature led. All-seeing in thy mists, we want no guide, Mother of arrogance, and source of pride! 470 We nobly take the high priori road, And reason downward, till we doubt of God...
Página 59 - Round him much embryo, much abortion lay, Much future ode, and abdicated play...
Página 67 - And here she plann'd th' imperial seat of fools. Here to her chosen all her works she shows, Prose swell'd to verse, verse loitering into prose : How random thoughts now meaning chance to find. Now leave all memory of sense behind : How prologues into prefaces decay, And these to notes are fritter'd quite away : How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail...
Página 82 - Now look through fate ! behold the scene she draws ! What aids, what armies, to assert her cause ! See all her progeny, illustrious sight ! Behold, and count them, as they rise to light...