The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Compiled from Original Manuscripts; with a Critical Essay on His Writings and GeniusC. Bathurst, H. Woodfall, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, W. Johnston, B. White, T. Caslon, T. Longman, B. Law, Johnson and Payne, S. Bladon, T. Cadell, and the executors of A. Millar., 1769 - 578 pages |
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... must be confeffed , that even literary reputation has fometimes been un- defervedly acquired , and unjustly withheld . There are not many readers perhaps who judge for themfelves . The far greater part deter- mine upon the authority of ...
... must be confeffed , that even literary reputation has fometimes been un- defervedly acquired , and unjustly withheld . There are not many readers perhaps who judge for themfelves . The far greater part deter- mine upon the authority of ...
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... must not infer from hence , however , what a learned critic would infinuate , that Mr. POPE's genius was confined , and that he was not mafter of a crea- tive and glowing imagination , the " Acer fpiritus ac vis . ” But the nature ...
... must not infer from hence , however , what a learned critic would infinuate , that Mr. POPE's genius was confined , and that he was not mafter of a crea- tive and glowing imagination , the " Acer fpiritus ac vis . ” But the nature ...
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... must be a writer of true genius , who has the virtue to ridicule his own defects . The ridicule , however , of this juvenile attempt , did not difcourage him from once more attempting this fpecies of compofition ; for , in his riper ...
... must be a writer of true genius , who has the virtue to ridicule his own defects . The ridicule , however , of this juvenile attempt , did not difcourage him from once more attempting this fpecies of compofition ; for , in his riper ...
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... must indeed be confeffed , that this fiction of the ima- gination , is , in the foregoing inftance , used rather licenti- oufly . But the critic is miftaken in faying , that our au- thor has copied the original literally ; fince , as ...
... must indeed be confeffed , that this fiction of the ima- gination , is , in the foregoing inftance , used rather licenti- oufly . But the critic is miftaken in faying , that our au- thor has copied the original literally ; fince , as ...
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... must be confeffed , however , that these pa- ftorals did not escape the malice of criticism , at the time of their publication . Many , who had not judgment to distinguish what is rural from what is ruftic , imputed to them that they ...
... must be confeffed , however , that these pa- ftorals did not escape the malice of criticism , at the time of their publication . Many , who had not judgment to distinguish what is rural from what is ruftic , imputed to them that they ...
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Page 265 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Page 231 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!
Page 123 - In some lone isle, or distant northern land; Where the gilt chariot never marks the way, Where none learn ombre, none e'er taste bohea!
Page 231 - The proper study of mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err...
Page 192 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 124 - Who would not scorn what Housewife's Cares produce, Or who would learn one earthly Thing of Use ? To patch, nay ogle, might become a Saint, Nor could it sure be such a Sin to paint. But since, alas ! frail Beauty must decay...
Page 163 - Come, Abelard ! for what hast thou to dread ? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature stands check'd ; Religion disapproves ; Ev'n thou art cold — yet Eloisa loves. 260 Ah hopeless, lasting flames ! like those that burn To light the dead, and warm th
Page 381 - But chief her shrine where naked Venus keeps, And Cupids ride the Lion of the Deeps; Where, eas'd of Fleets, the Adriatic main Wafts the smooth Eunuch and enamour'd swain.
Page 80 - She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For, as in bodies, thus in souls we find, What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Page 239 - Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod; The state of Nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man.