Pope. Satires and Epistles, ed. by M. Pattison1872 |
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... noble name . He seems to feel that the bitter personalities which he is writing may need some such cover . Boileau , before Pope , had felt himself compelled to publish an apology for being a professed satirist . The Discours sur la ...
... noble name . He seems to feel that the bitter personalities which he is writing may need some such cover . Boileau , before Pope , had felt himself compelled to publish an apology for being a professed satirist . The Discours sur la ...
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... deal with permanent themes . Satirical , is not any more than any other , poetry absolved from this obligation . Satire , even when individual , must never lose sight of just and noble ends . Of all petty 14 INTRODUCTORY .
... deal with permanent themes . Satirical , is not any more than any other , poetry absolved from this obligation . Satire , even when individual , must never lose sight of just and noble ends . Of all petty 14 INTRODUCTORY .
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Alexander Pope Mark Pattison. sight of just and noble ends . Of all petty things nothing is so petty as a petty quarrel . Pope too often allows the personal grudge to be seen through the surface of public police which he puts on his work ...
Alexander Pope Mark Pattison. sight of just and noble ends . Of all petty things nothing is so petty as a petty quarrel . Pope too often allows the personal grudge to be seen through the surface of public police which he puts on his work ...
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... his conscience . He did indeed rouse the wrath of fashionable authors , and of grandees . He refused homage alike to false taste in writing , and to the noble patrons of that false taste . But he did it in tones of manly 16 INTRODUCTORY .
... his conscience . He did indeed rouse the wrath of fashionable authors , and of grandees . He refused homage alike to false taste in writing , and to the noble patrons of that false taste . But he did it in tones of manly 16 INTRODUCTORY .
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... noble wife , Stranger to civil and religious rage , The good man walk'd innoxious thro ' his age . No courts he saw , no suits would ever try , Nor dar'd an oath , nor hazarded a lye . Unlearn'd , he knew no schoolman's subtile art , No ...
... noble wife , Stranger to civil and religious rage , The good man walk'd innoxious thro ' his age . No courts he saw , no suits would ever try , Nor dar'd an oath , nor hazarded a lye . Unlearn'd , he knew no schoolman's subtile art , No ...
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Page 30 - 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...
Page 33 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Page 30 - Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? What though my name stood rubric on the walls Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Page 52 - Who counsels best ? who whispers, ' Be but great, With praise or infamy leave that to fate; Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace ; If not, by any means get wealth and place.
Page 145 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he ' had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech.
Page 27 - Say, for my comfort, languishing in bed, 'Just so immortal Maro held his head'; And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own?
Page 144 - 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 29 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Page 28 - Commas and points they set exactly right, And 'twere a sin to rob them of their mite.
Page 64 - Who now reads Cowley ? if he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pointed wit ; Forgot his epic, nay Pindaric art, But still I love the language of his heart.