“The” Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Ten Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; ... Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton, 1. köideFredrick Nicolai, 1762 |
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Page x
... Poetry , it is ten to one but he must give up all the reafo nable aims of life for it . There are indeed some , advantages accruing from a Genius to Poetry , and they are all I can think of : the agreeable power of felf - amufement when ...
... Poetry , it is ten to one but he must give up all the reafo nable aims of life for it . There are indeed some , advantages accruing from a Genius to Poetry , and they are all I can think of : the agreeable power of felf - amufement when ...
Page x
... reputation which will continue long , or which deferves to do fo : for they have always fallen fhort not only of what I read of others , but even of my own Ideas of Poetry . If any one fhould imagine I am not in ear- VI PREFACE .
... reputation which will continue long , or which deferves to do fo : for they have always fallen fhort not only of what I read of others , but even of my own Ideas of Poetry . If any one fhould imagine I am not in ear- VI PREFACE .
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... Poetry , refolving with the fame freedom to expofe myfelf , as it is in the power of any other to expofe them . In the first place , I thank God and nature , that I was born with a love to poetry ; for nothing more con- duces to fill up ...
... Poetry , refolving with the fame freedom to expofe myfelf , as it is in the power of any other to expofe them . In the first place , I thank God and nature , that I was born with a love to poetry ; for nothing more con- duces to fill up ...
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... Poets are bound a loud applause to pay ; Apollo bids it , and they must obey . And yet fo wonderful , fublime a thing , As the great ILIAD , fcarce could make me fing ' ; 10 15 Except I juftly could at once commend A good Companion XV.
... Poets are bound a loud applause to pay ; Apollo bids it , and they must obey . And yet fo wonderful , fublime a thing , As the great ILIAD , fcarce could make me fing ' ; 10 15 Except I juftly could at once commend A good Companion XV.
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... Poetic ground . ΤΟ 15 How flame the glories of Belinda's Hair , Made by thy Muse the envy of the Fair ? Lefs fhone the treffes Egypt's princefs wore , Which sweet Callimachus so sung before . Here courtly trifles fet the world at odds ...
... Poetic ground . ΤΟ 15 How flame the glories of Belinda's Hair , Made by thy Muse the envy of the Fair ? Lefs fhone the treffes Egypt's princefs wore , Which sweet Callimachus so sung before . Here courtly trifles fet the world at odds ...
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