POPE, SELECTED POEMS; THE ESSAY ON CRITICISM; THE MORAL ESSAYS; THE DUNCIAD1876 |
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... Elwin ( to whom every acknowledgment is due for having first given to the world a large number of Pope's letters , and edited the whole collection with care and perspicuity ) , has formed a very different opinion of its merits . In his ...
... Elwin ( to whom every acknowledgment is due for having first given to the world a large number of Pope's letters , and edited the whole collection with care and perspicuity ) , has formed a very different opinion of its merits . In his ...
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... Elwin himself admits that in this passage we ought to read 1707 for 1706. In another place ( p . 16 ) Spence represents him as saying ' My Essay on Criticism was written in 1709 , and published in 1711. ' Here is a discrepancy ; how is ...
... Elwin himself admits that in this passage we ought to read 1707 for 1706. In another place ( p . 16 ) Spence represents him as saying ' My Essay on Criticism was written in 1709 , and published in 1711. ' Here is a discrepancy ; how is ...
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... Elwin , Pope forgot the confession in the poem , ver . 735-740 , that in consequence of having " lost his guide " by the death of Walsh , he was afraid to at- tempt ambitious themes , and selected the Essay on Criticism as a topic ...
... Elwin , Pope forgot the confession in the poem , ver . 735-740 , that in consequence of having " lost his guide " by the death of Walsh , he was afraid to at- tempt ambitious themes , and selected the Essay on Criticism as a topic ...
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... Elwin may mean , that since the death of Walsh he no longer attempted such high themes as the Essay on Criticism , the first draft of which he had shown to and discussed with his friend , but had sunk to a lower style of work . The poem ...
... Elwin may mean , that since the death of Walsh he no longer attempted such high themes as the Essay on Criticism , the first draft of which he had shown to and discussed with his friend , but had sunk to a lower style of work . The poem ...
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... Elwin's charges in detail , in the case of some one poem , after which , we think , the reader will be disposed to distrust in other cases the un- favourable imputations in which he so liberally deals , unless they be otherwise ...
... Elwin's charges in detail , in the case of some one poem , after which , we think , the reader will be disposed to distrust in other cases the un- favourable imputations in which he so liberally deals , unless they be otherwise ...
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Page 115 - In vain, they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Page 4 - whispers through the trees." If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threatened (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 1 - A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ : Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where Nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The gen'rous pleasure to be charm'd with wit.
Page 149 - Excise. A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Page 4 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic, if too new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 28 - Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare! Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air; Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Page 115 - Night primaeval and of Chaos old ! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus
Page 127 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
Page xl - OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Page 45 - Or in proud falls magnificently lost, But clear and artless, pouring through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows? Whose seats the weary traveller repose ? Who taught that Heav'n-directed spire to rise? " The Man of Ross,