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Alexander Pope Louis Ignatius Bredvold. 1 CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION THE ELEMENT OF ART IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
Alexander Pope Louis Ignatius Bredvold. 1 CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION THE ELEMENT OF ART IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
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... • CONCLUSION OF THE DUNCIAD . • · · 206 212 220 222 · 263 • . 267 NOTES TO THE POEMS APPENDIX A , CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY APPENDIX B , POPE'S VERSIFICATION INTRODUCTION THE ELEMENT OF ART IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY POETRY In viii CONTENTS.
... • CONCLUSION OF THE DUNCIAD . • · · 206 212 220 222 · 263 • . 267 NOTES TO THE POEMS APPENDIX A , CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY APPENDIX B , POPE'S VERSIFICATION INTRODUCTION THE ELEMENT OF ART IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY POETRY In viii CONTENTS.
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... Century Vignettes , Lionel Johnson declared that he himself was among the genuine lovers of the eighteenth century . " To its votaries and de- votees it is the enchanted , the golden , the incomparable age : our dearest friends lived in ...
... Century Vignettes , Lionel Johnson declared that he himself was among the genuine lovers of the eighteenth century . " To its votaries and de- votees it is the enchanted , the golden , the incomparable age : our dearest friends lived in ...
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... century has few dull places : deistical treatises , Christian evidences , third - rate essayists , Odes to Soli- tude , I can enjoy them all . In a word , the bad writing of the last century is more tolerable than that of any other century ...
... century has few dull places : deistical treatises , Christian evidences , third - rate essayists , Odes to Soli- tude , I can enjoy them all . In a word , the bad writing of the last century is more tolerable than that of any other century ...
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... century was a period of prose and reason , the verse of that time is only metrical prose and really not poetry at all . This preconception is based on two errors , one of fact and one of theory . In the first place , there is far more ...
... century was a period of prose and reason , the verse of that time is only metrical prose and really not poetry at all . This preconception is based on two errors , one of fact and one of theory . In the first place , there is far more ...
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Page 74 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent : Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns : To him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 13 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 35 - Who gave the ball or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes: At every word a reputation dies.
Page 155 - 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 66 - AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and -the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die...
Page 30 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride 15 Might hide her faults, if Belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Page 118 - I give and I devise" (old Euclio said, And sigh'd) "my lands and tenements to Ned." Your money, Sir? "My money, Sir! what, all? Why,— if I must— (then wept) I give it Paul.
Page 1 - Happy the man*, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
Page 43 - Ease, pleasure, virtue, all our sex resign. Methinks already I your tears survey, Already hear the horrid things they say, Already see you a degraded toast, And all your honour in a whisper lost ! no How shall I then your helpless fame defend? 'Twill then be infamy to seem your friend ! And shall this prize, th...
Page 116 - Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling Passion was the Lust of Praise; Born with whate'er could win it from the Wise, Women and Fools must like him or he dies; Tho' wond'ring Senates hung on all he spoke, The Club must hail him master of the joke.