The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Comp. from Original Manuscripts; with a Critical Essay on His Writings and Genius |
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... fince , to an accu- rate obferver , the temper and morals of a writer generally breathe through his works . In this history , therefore , which will contain - the most interesting particulars of our poet's life , an account will be ...
... fince , to an accu- rate obferver , the temper and morals of a writer generally breathe through his works . In this history , therefore , which will contain - the most interesting particulars of our poet's life , an account will be ...
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... fince- rity of the writer's fentiments : which cannot be better demonftrated , than by fuch an exem- plification . Laftly , his moral character will be particularly exemplified in all its various relations : and this part of the defign ...
... fince- rity of the writer's fentiments : which cannot be better demonftrated , than by fuch an exem- plification . Laftly , his moral character will be particularly exemplified in all its various relations : and this part of the defign ...
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... fince our author himself affures us , in the epistle above mentioned , that he broke no duty , nor disobeyed any parent by commencing poet- " I left no calling for this idle trade , " No duty broke , no father difobey'd . " By the time ...
... fince our author himself affures us , in the epistle above mentioned , that he broke no duty , nor disobeyed any parent by commencing poet- " I left no calling for this idle trade , " No duty broke , no father difobey'd . " By the time ...
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... fince her death , " Lament the ceafing of a fweeter breath * " The fame may be faid of the following beauti- ful couplet in this paftoral . " No more the mounting larks , while Daphne fings , 66 " Shall lift ning in mid - air fufpend ...
... fince her death , " Lament the ceafing of a fweeter breath * " The fame may be faid of the following beauti- ful couplet in this paftoral . " No more the mounting larks , while Daphne fings , 66 " Shall lift ning in mid - air fufpend ...
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... fince , as above ob- ferved , he has very judiciously changed the image , though he has given full fcope to the fiction . The third line of this ftanza , is very far from being fmooth and harmonious . The genitive cafe hangs upon the ...
... fince , as above ob- ferved , he has very judiciously changed the image , though he has given full fcope to the fiction . The third line of this ftanza , is very far from being fmooth and harmonious . The genitive cafe hangs upon the ...
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AARON HILL addreffed admirable affured againſt anſwer beautiful becauſe beft beſt cenfure character compofition critic Dean Swift defcribed defcription defign defire difplayed Dunciad Effay effayift epiftle ev'ry excellent expreffed fafe faid fame fatire fays feems fenfe fenfibility fentiments ferve feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince fincere firft firſt fome foon fpeaking fpirit friendſhip ftate ftill ftriking ftrong fubject fublime fuch fuperior fuppofed fure genius himſelf honour Iliad illuftrated imagination inftance itſelf John Searl judgment juft juſt laft laſt learned lefs letter likewife Lord Lord Bolingbroke merit mind moft moral moſt muft muſt myſelf nature never nevertheleſs numbers obferves occafion paffage paffed paffion perfon piece pleaſed pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry POPE POPE's prefent profe publiſhed purpoſe racter raiſe reafon refpect ridicule ſay ſcene ſeems ſpeak tafte thefe themſelves theſe lines thofe thoſe thought tion tranflation uſe verfe virtue whofe writings
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Page 265 - Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge Thy foe. 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 256 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
Page 231 - 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...
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 298 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ; Enough, that Virtue fill'd the space between ; Prov'd by the ends of being, to have been.
Page 229 - But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at ev'ry pore? Or quick effluvia darting thro' the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain?
Page 116 - He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts...
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.
Page 231 - KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed 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...
Page 226 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.