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... virtue had departed from the earth , or was confined to the circle of friends - to Bolingbroke , Marchmont , Lyttelton and himself . ( See March- mont Papers , 2. 219. ) In such a position the best judgment becomes clouded , and men ...
... virtue had departed from the earth , or was confined to the circle of friends - to Bolingbroke , Marchmont , Lyttelton and himself . ( See March- mont Papers , 2. 219. ) In such a position the best judgment becomes clouded , and men ...
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... virtue is too often a cloak for revenge . His most pungent verses can always be referred back to some personal cause of affront — a line in The Bee , or a copy of verses upon him which was handed about in manuscript . He knowingly threw ...
... virtue is too often a cloak for revenge . His most pungent verses can always be referred back to some personal cause of affront — a line in The Bee , or a copy of verses upon him which was handed about in manuscript . He knowingly threw ...
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... virtue of his judgments . His dicta are so many axioms . When he condemns or commands it is the verdict of common sense that we hear . And Boileau never transgresses the bounds of legitimate criticism . He had no libels on his ...
... virtue of his judgments . His dicta are so many axioms . When he condemns or commands it is the verdict of common sense that we hear . And Boileau never transgresses the bounds of legitimate criticism . He had no libels on his ...
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... virtue scandal , innocence a fear , Or from the soft - ey'd virgin steal a tear ! But he who hurts a harmless neighbour's peace , Insults fall'n worth , or beauty in distress , Who loves a lye , lame slander helps about , Who writes a ...
... virtue scandal , innocence a fear , Or from the soft - ey'd virgin steal a tear ! But he who hurts a harmless neighbour's peace , Insults fall'n worth , or beauty in distress , Who loves a lye , lame slander helps about , Who writes a ...
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... virtue's better end , He stood the furious foe , the timid friend , The damning critic , half approving wit , The coxcomb hit , or fearing to be hit ; Laugh'd at the loss of friends he never had , The dull , the proud , the wicked , and ...
... virtue's better end , He stood the furious foe , the timid friend , The damning critic , half approving wit , The coxcomb hit , or fearing to be hit ; Laugh'd at the loss of friends he never had , The dull , the proud , the wicked , and ...
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Page 30 - 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...
Page 23 - tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Page 30 - 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...
Page 33 - Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all see-saw, between that and this, « Now high, now low, now master .up, now miss, And he himself one vile Antithesis.
Page 33 - That Fop, whose pride affects a patron's name, Yet absent, wounds an author's honest fame: Who can your merit selfishly approve, And show the sense of it without the love...
Page 145 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he ' had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech.
Page 27 - Say, for my comfort, languishing in bed, 'Just so immortal Maro held his head'; And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own?
Page 33 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Page 119 - London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems; whence any mean production is called Grub-street" — , " lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
Page 144 - whispers through the trees": If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (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.