The Works of Alexander Pope: The life [by W.J. Courthope] and indexJ. Murray, 1889 - Poets, English |
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... judgment , taste , and learning I owe a debt of gratitude that I can never sufficiently acknowledge . In the Essay on Pope to which I have already alluded , Conington examined in considerable detail the meaning of the word ' correctness ...
... judgment , taste , and learning I owe a debt of gratitude that I can never sufficiently acknowledge . In the Essay on Pope to which I have already alluded , Conington examined in considerable detail the meaning of the word ' correctness ...
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... Judgments on the Poem - Imitation of Nature - Origin of False Wit - Authority of the Classics - Effects of the ' Essay ' on Public Taste 13 38 CHAPTER IV . INTRODUCTION TO LONDON LIFE . 1704-1713 . -- Correspondence with Wycherley ...
... Judgments on the Poem - Imitation of Nature - Origin of False Wit - Authority of the Classics - Effects of the ' Essay ' on Public Taste 13 38 CHAPTER IV . INTRODUCTION TO LONDON LIFE . 1704-1713 . -- Correspondence with Wycherley ...
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... judgment seems to have been founded on the observation of the specimens pre- served in the ' Translation of the Iliad , ' an obviously unfair test . Richardson , son of the painter , on the other hand , who was well acquainted with his ...
... judgment seems to have been founded on the observation of the specimens pre- served in the ' Translation of the Iliad , ' an obviously unfair test . Richardson , son of the painter , on the other hand , who was well acquainted with his ...
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... judgment which he afterwards embodied in the last book of the ' Dunciad , ' where he gives what pretends to be an accurate description of the methods of instruction practised in English schools : " To ask , to guess , to know , as they ...
... judgment which he afterwards embodied in the last book of the ' Dunciad , ' where he gives what pretends to be an accurate description of the methods of instruction practised in English schools : " To ask , to guess , to know , as they ...
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... judgment preternaturally strong and penetrating , and an instinct of propriety hardly ever at fault . His mind , equipped with an exquisite sense of form and order , rather than fertile in original thought , re- quired to be stimulated ...
... judgment preternaturally strong and penetrating , and an instinct of propriety hardly ever at fault . His mind , equipped with an exquisite sense of form and order , rather than fertile in original thought , re- quired to be stimulated ...
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Page 110 - And hence th' egregious wizard shall foredoom The fate of Louis, and the fall of Rome. Then cease, bright Nymph! to mourn thy ravish'd hair, Which adds new glory to the shining sphere! Not all the tresses that fair head can boast, Shall draw such envy as the lock you lost.
Page 43 - Twere well might critics still this freedom take : But Appius reddens at each word you speak, And stares tremendous, with a threatening eye, Like some fierce tyrant in old tapestry.
Page 54 - And hence perhaps may be given some reason of that common observation, that men who have a great deal of wit, and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment or deepest reason...
Page 68 - And something previous ev'n to taste — 'tis sense : Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And, though no science, fairly worth the seven : A light which in yourself you must perceive ; Jones and Le Notre have it not to give.
Page 271 - Oh let me live my own, and die so too! (To live and die is all I have to do:) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease. And see what friends, and read what books I please: Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend.
Page 112 - Whatever spirit, careless of his charge, His post neglects, or leaves the fair at large, Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins, Be...
Page 52 - MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much, as his observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.
Page 183 - There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place: There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul: And he, whose lightning pierced the' Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines; Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as he conquer'd Spain.
Page 249 - That reason, passion, answer one great aim ; That true self-love and social are the same ; That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is — ourselves to know.
Page 320 - Are what ten thousand envy and adore : All, all look up, with reverential awe, At crimes that 'scape, or triumph o'er the law : While truth, worth, wisdom, daily they decry — " Nothing is sacred now but villany.