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,, Volume 1J. Rivington, 1824 - English literature |
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... gave any thanks for endeavouring at : " - and Pope has himself remarked , in the preface to his works , that " a bad author deserves upon the whole , better usage than a bad critic ; for a writer's endeavour , for the most part , is to ...
... gave any thanks for endeavouring at : " - and Pope has himself remarked , in the preface to his works , that " a bad author deserves upon the whole , better usage than a bad critic ; for a writer's endeavour , for the most part , is to ...
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... gave the finishing touches and corrections ; at the same time submitting his manuscript to Mr. Cromwell , who made some just remarks upon it , of which Pope availed himself . Pope was now nearly approaching the highest elevation of his ...
... gave the finishing touches and corrections ; at the same time submitting his manuscript to Mr. Cromwell , who made some just remarks upon it , of which Pope availed himself . Pope was now nearly approaching the highest elevation of his ...
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... gave Pope some displeasure . " The Art of Criticism , " says Addison , " which was published some months since , is a master - piece in its kind . The observations follow one another like those in Horace's Art of Poetry , without that ...
... gave Pope some displeasure . " The Art of Criticism , " says Addison , " which was published some months since , is a master - piece in its kind . The observations follow one another like those in Horace's Art of Poetry , without that ...
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... gave rise to one of the most celebrated poems in the English language ; and thus unostentatiously did Pope refer to one of his early productions , which contributed , more perhaps than any other , to raise him to that poeti- cal ...
... gave rise to one of the most celebrated poems in the English language ; and thus unostentatiously did Pope refer to one of his early productions , which contributed , more perhaps than any other , to raise him to that poeti- cal ...
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... gave umbrage to his friend's false delicacy , and then it was that he encouraged Philips and others in their clamours against him as a Tory and Jaco- bite , who had assisted in writing the Examiners ; and under an affected care for the ...
... gave umbrage to his friend's false delicacy , and then it was that he encouraged Philips and others in their clamours against him as a Tory and Jaco- bite , who had assisted in writing the Examiners ; and under an affected care for the ...
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Page 170 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 104 - He who still wanting, tho' he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left; And he who now to sense, now nonsense, leaning, Means not, but blunders round about a meaning; And he whose...
Page 213 - For forms of government let fools contest: Whate'er is best administer'd is best: For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right; In faith and hope the world will disagree.
Page 171 - 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 reserved to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading even fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause...
Page 10 - 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 222 - Nymph of the Grot, these sacred Springs I keep, And to the Murmur of these Waters sleep ; Ah spare my slumbers, gently tread the cave ! And drink in silence, or in silence lave ! You'll think I have been very Poetical in this Description, but it is pretty near the Truth.
Page 222 - It is finished with shells, interspersed with pieces of looking-glass in angular forms, and in the ceiling is a star of the same material, at which, when a lamp (of an orbicular figure of thin alabaster) is hung in the middle, a thousand pointed rays glitter and are reflected over the place.
Page 171 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — 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 load, On wings of winds came flying all abroad?
Page 416 - As fruits ungrateful to the planter's care, On savage stocks inserted, learn to bear, The surest virtues thus from passions shoot. Wild nature's vigour working at the root. What crops of wit and honesty appear From spleen, from obstinacy, hate, or fear ! See anger zeal and fortitude supply ; E'en avarice prudence, sloth philosophy ; Lust, through some certain strainers well refin'd, Is gentle love, and charms all womankind; Envy, to which th...
Page 170 - The next day, while I was heated with what I had heard, I wrote a letter to Mr. Addison, to let him know that I was not unacquainted with this behaviour of his; that if I was to speak severely of him in return for it, it should not be in such a dirty way; that I should rather tell him himself fairly of his faults, and allow his good qualities; and that it should be something in the following manner.