The Works of Alexander Pope Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; ... Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warbuton, 5. köideJ. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, and C. Bathurst, 1752 |
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Page 61
... She fixes her eye on Bays to be the Inftrument of that great Event which is the Subject of the Poem . He is defcribed penfive among his Books , giving up the Caufe , and apprehending the Period of her Empire : After debating whether to ...
... She fixes her eye on Bays to be the Inftrument of that great Event which is the Subject of the Poem . He is defcribed penfive among his Books , giving up the Caufe , and apprehending the Period of her Empire : After debating whether to ...
Page 62
... She forthwith reveals herself to him , tranfports him to ber Temple , unfolds her Arts , and initiates him into ber Myfteries ; then announcing the death of Eufden the Poet Laureate , anoints him , carries him to Court , and pro- claims ...
... She forthwith reveals herself to him , tranfports him to ber Temple , unfolds her Arts , and initiates him into ber Myfteries ; then announcing the death of Eufden the Poet Laureate , anoints him , carries him to Court , and pro- claims ...
Page 70
... She rul'd , in native Anarchy , the mind . REMARKS . 15 VER . 12. Daughter of Chaos & c . ] The beauty of the whole Allegory being purely of the poetical kind , we think it not our proper bufinefs , as a Scholiaft , to meddle with it ...
... She rul'd , in native Anarchy , the mind . REMARKS . 15 VER . 12. Daughter of Chaos & c . ] The beauty of the whole Allegory being purely of the poetical kind , we think it not our proper bufinefs , as a Scholiaft , to meddle with it ...
Page 71
... she tries , For , born a Goddefs , Dulness never dies . " O Thou ! whatever title please thine ear , Dean , Drapier ... she cannot regulate them like Reason , yet blunts and deadens theirVigour , and , indeed produces fome of the good ...
... she tries , For , born a Goddefs , Dulness never dies . " O Thou ! whatever title please thine ear , Dean , Drapier ... she cannot regulate them like Reason , yet blunts and deadens theirVigour , and , indeed produces fome of the good ...
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... She is faid here only to be spreading her wings to hatch this Age ; which is not produced completely till the fourth book . VER . 31. By his fam'd father's hand , ] Mr. Caius - Gabriel Cibber , father of the Poet - Laureate . The two ...
... She is faid here only to be spreading her wings to hatch this Age ; which is not produced completely till the fourth book . VER . 31. By his fam'd father's hand , ] Mr. Caius - Gabriel Cibber , father of the Poet - Laureate . The two ...
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