The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Satires, &cJ. and P. Knapton, 1752 |
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... instance , that afforded him much diverfion . While these acquaintance read the Effay on Man as the work of an unknown author , they fairly owned they did not understand it ; but when the reputation of the poem became fecured by the ...
... instance , that afforded him much diverfion . While these acquaintance read the Effay on Man as the work of an unknown author , they fairly owned they did not understand it ; but when the reputation of the poem became fecured by the ...
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... instances are equally pertinent ; but in the latter they have rather greater force . Only the line , Uni aequus virtuti atque ejus amicis , lofes fomething of its spirit in the imitation ; for the amici , re- ferred to , were Scipio and ...
... instances are equally pertinent ; but in the latter they have rather greater force . Only the line , Uni aequus virtuti atque ejus amicis , lofes fomething of its spirit in the imitation ; for the amici , re- ferred to , were Scipio and ...
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... instance has not the fame grace here as in the original , where it comes in well after those of Romulus , Bacchus , Castor , and Pollux , tho ' aukwardly af- ter Edward and Henry . But it was for the sake of the beautiful thought in the ...
... instance has not the fame grace here as in the original , where it comes in well after those of Romulus , Bacchus , Castor , and Pollux , tho ' aukwardly af- ter Edward and Henry . But it was for the sake of the beautiful thought in the ...
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... Laureat to Hen . VIII . a volume of whose verses has been lately reprinted , confifting almost wholly of ribaldry , obscenity , and scurrilous anguage . 3 P. Just in one instance , be it yet confeft Your 148 IMITATIONS Book II .
... Laureat to Hen . VIII . a volume of whose verses has been lately reprinted , confifting almost wholly of ribaldry , obscenity , and scurrilous anguage . 3 P. Just in one instance , be it yet confeft Your 148 IMITATIONS Book II .
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... instance of the People's ill tafte was both well chosen and happily expreffed . Johnson's talents were learning , judgment , and industry , rather than wit , or natural genius . VER . 42. met him at the Devil ] The Devil Tavern , where ...
... instance of the People's ill tafte was both well chosen and happily expreffed . Johnson's talents were learning , judgment , and industry , rather than wit , or natural genius . VER . 42. met him at the Devil ] The Devil Tavern , where ...
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Page 9 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage!' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Page 24 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 16 - Fed with soft Dedication all day long, Horace and he went hand in hand in song. His library, where busts of poets dead...
Page 275 - Seen him, uncumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. Would he oblige me? let me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind.
Page 8 - And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove?
Page 29 - Yet why? that father held it for a rule, It was a sin to call our neighbour fool: That harmless mother thought no wife a whore: Hear this, and spare his family, James Moore! Unspotted names, and memorable long! If there be force in virtue, or in song.
Page 43 - My head and heart thus flowing thro' my quill, Verse-man or prose-man, term me which you will, Papist or Protestant, or both between, Like good Erasmus in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory.
Page 12 - It is" the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent : Alas ! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates in high heroic prose, And ridicules beyond a hundred foes : One from all Grub-street will my fame defend, And, more abusive, calls himself my friend. This prints my letters, that expects a bribe, And others roar aloud,
Page 31 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Page 9 - Lintot, dull rogue! will think your price too much." "Not, sir, if you revise it, and retouch.