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,, 3. köideJ. Rivington, 1824 |
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... remarkable . The same writer never presumed to undertake more than one kind of dramatic poetry , if we except the Cyclops of Euripides . A poet never presumed to plead in public , or to write history , or indeed any considerable work in ...
... remarkable . The same writer never presumed to undertake more than one kind of dramatic poetry , if we except the Cyclops of Euripides . A poet never presumed to plead in public , or to write history , or indeed any considerable work in ...
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... remarkable . The question is of the means to subdue Pride : he directs the Critic to begin with a distrust of himself ; and this is Modesty , the first mortification of Pride : and then to seek the assistance of others , and make use ...
... remarkable . The question is of the means to subdue Pride : he directs the Critic to begin with a distrust of himself ; and this is Modesty , the first mortification of Pride : and then to seek the assistance of others , and make use ...
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... remarkable . The poets , and even some of the best of them , have been so fond of the beauty arising from this trivial observance , that their practice has violated the very END of the precept , which is the increase of harmony ; and so ...
... remarkable . The poets , and even some of the best of them , have been so fond of the beauty arising from this trivial observance , that their practice has violated the very END of the precept , which is the increase of harmony ; and so ...
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... remarkable example ; where we see Time , instead of becoming wiser , destroying good letters , to substitute school divinity in their place - The genius of which kind of learning ; the character of its professors ; and the fate , which ...
... remarkable example ; where we see Time , instead of becoming wiser , destroying good letters , to substitute school divinity in their place - The genius of which kind of learning ; the character of its professors ; and the fate , which ...
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... remarkable , that most of the great poets , about this time , wrote an Art of Poetry . Trissino , a name respected for giv- ing to Europe the first regular epic poem , and for first daring to throw off the bondage of rhyme , published ...
... remarkable , that most of the great poets , about this time , wrote an Art of Poetry . Trissino , a name respected for giv- ing to Europe the first regular epic poem , and for first daring to throw off the bondage of rhyme , published ...
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Page 98 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with ' sleep': Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Page 101 - 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.
Page 93 - And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is still, — the style is excellent; The sense, they humbly take upon content. Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found...
Page 7 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again ; Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd : Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Page 186 - This day, black omens threat the brightest fair, That e'er deserv'da watchful spirit's care; Some dire disaster, or by force, or slight; But what, or where, the fates have wrapt in night. Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail china jar receive a flaw; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade; Forget her pray'rs, or miss a masquerade; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; Or whether Heav'n has doom'd that Shock must fall.
Page 97 - Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there.
Page 196 - T inclose the Lock ; now joins it, to divide. Ev'n then, before the fatal engine clos'd, A wretched Sylph too fondly interpos'd ; Fate urg'd the shears, and cut the Sylph in twain, But airy substance soon unites again,) ! The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, for ever, and for ever! Then flash'd the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th
Page 97 - 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 unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes; Where'er you find 'the cooling western breeze...
Page 81 - While from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise!
Page 204 - fore Gad, you must be civil! "Plague on't! 'tis past a jest — nay prithee, pox! "Give her the hair" — he spoke, and rapp'd his box. "It grieves me much" (replied the Peer again) "Who speaks so well should ever speak in vain. But by this Lock, this sacred Lock I swear, (Which never more shall join its parted hair; Which...