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 - Biography - 578 pages |
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... instances , where the writer hath been , indebted to others , more especially in what he hath borrowed from the Commentary and Notes , he hath , for the moft part , followed the very words of the author , from whom the paffages are ...
... instances , where the writer hath been , indebted to others , more especially in what he hath borrowed from the Commentary and Notes , he hath , for the moft part , followed the very words of the author , from whom the paffages are ...
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... instance , that though , fpeak- ing of old FATHER THAMES , the trite and ob- tious infignia of a river god are attributed to him , yet there is one circumftance in his ap- pearance highly picturesque , which is ד " His fea - green ...
... instance , that though , fpeak- ing of old FATHER THAMES , the trite and ob- tious infignia of a river god are attributed to him , yet there is one circumftance in his ap- pearance highly picturesque , which is ד " His fea - green ...
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... instances of adapting the found to the fense , seems to lie rather in the arrange ment , than in the choice of the words . The laft caufe which the poet enumerates , as tending to obftru & t the judgment , is Partiality ; which he ...
... instances of adapting the found to the fense , seems to lie rather in the arrange ment , than in the choice of the words . The laft caufe which the poet enumerates , as tending to obftru & t the judgment , is Partiality ; which he ...
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... instance , Sappho says , Omnique a parte placebam , " Sed tum praecipue , cum fit amoris opus . " which the tranflator renders thus , " In all I pleas'd , but moft in what was beft ; " And the laft joy was dearer than the reft . " These ...
... instance , Sappho says , Omnique a parte placebam , " Sed tum praecipue , cum fit amoris opus . " which the tranflator renders thus , " In all I pleas'd , but moft in what was beft ; " And the laft joy was dearer than the reft . " These ...
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... instance , fpeaking of the difficulty of female inconfiftencies , he fays- " How fhould equal colours do the knack ? " Cameleons who can paint in white and black ? " The fimile here is extremely juft and beautiful : but the phrafe of do ...
... instance , fpeaking of the difficulty of female inconfiftencies , he fays- " How fhould equal colours do the knack ? " Cameleons who can paint in white and black ? " The fimile here is extremely juft and beautiful : but the phrafe of do ...
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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.