The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks, 6. köideJ. Rivington, 1824 |
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... moral and intellectual , the following piece does great credit ; and in the situation where it is now placed , it may serve as no unsuitable introduction to the Sa- tires of Pope , as it contains sound principles and correct critical ...
... moral and intellectual , the following piece does great credit ; and in the situation where it is now placed , it may serve as no unsuitable introduction to the Sa- tires of Pope , as it contains sound principles and correct critical ...
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... moral transport o'er the heart . Fantastic wit shoots momentary fires , And , like a meteor , while we gaze , expires ; Wit kindled by the sulphurous breath of vice , Like the blue lightning , while it shines , destroys : But Genius ...
... moral transport o'er the heart . Fantastic wit shoots momentary fires , And , like a meteor , while we gaze , expires ; Wit kindled by the sulphurous breath of vice , Like the blue lightning , while it shines , destroys : But Genius ...
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... moral , critical , or didactic , his subjects are extraneous , and are drawn either from mankind in general , or from the persons with whom he was acquainted , and the scenes and circumstances by which he was surrounded ; but in the ...
... moral , critical , or didactic , his subjects are extraneous , and are drawn either from mankind in general , or from the persons with whom he was acquainted , and the scenes and circumstances by which he was surrounded ; but in the ...
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... moral and poetic character . For after having told his case , and humorously applied to his physician in the manner one would ask for a receipt to kill ver- min , he straight goes on , in the common character of askers of advice , to ...
... moral and poetic character . For after having told his case , and humorously applied to his physician in the manner one would ask for a receipt to kill ver- min , he straight goes on , in the common character of askers of advice , to ...
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... moral and poetic conduct through life . In which he shews that not fame , but VIRTUE , was the con- stant object of his ambition : that for this he opposed himself to all the violence of cabals , and the treacheries of courts : the ...
... moral and poetic conduct through life . In which he shews that not fame , but VIRTUE , was the con- stant object of his ambition : that for this he opposed himself to all the violence of cabals , and the treacheries of courts : the ...
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Page 177 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 41 - A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross?
Page 40 - tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Page 36 - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky!
Page 75 - Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do:) Maintain a Poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please : Above a Patron, tho...
Page 464 - So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along : But such is thy avarice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must have starved, and the poet have died. VOL. V. K THE BALANCE OF EUROPE. Now Europe balanced, neither side prevails ; For nothing's left in either of the scales.
Page 81 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings...
Page 63 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike, Alike...
Page 46 - He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew: Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain, The creature's at his dirty work again...
Page 388 - Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me : Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon ! left for Truth's defence, Sole dread of folly, vice, and insolence ! To all but Heaven-directed hands denied, The Muse may give thee, but the gods must guide.