The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: The dunciad, in four booksC. Bathurst, 1787 |
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... it has been taught to exprefs with elegance " the greatest of their poets in each nation . The illi- terate among our own countrymen may learn to judge 56 " from Dryden's Virgil of the most perfect Epic per- xxiv TESTIMONIES.
... it has been taught to exprefs with elegance " the greatest of their poets in each nation . The illi- terate among our own countrymen may learn to judge 56 " from Dryden's Virgil of the most perfect Epic per- xxiv TESTIMONIES.
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Alexander Pope. " from Dryden's Virgil of the most perfect Epic per- " formance . And those parts of Homer which have " been published already by Mr. Pope , give us reason 66 to think that the Iliad will appear in English with " as ...
Alexander Pope. " from Dryden's Virgil of the most perfect Epic per- " formance . And those parts of Homer which have " been published already by Mr. Pope , give us reason 66 to think that the Iliad will appear in English with " as ...
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... Virgil than in any other " work , except this of our author only 1 . 199 The Author of a Letter to Mr. CIBBER fays , " Pope was fo good a verfifier [ once ] that his " predeceffor Mr. Dryden , and his cotemporary Mr. " Prior excepted ...
... Virgil than in any other " work , except this of our author only 1 . 199 The Author of a Letter to Mr. CIBBER fays , " Pope was fo good a verfifier [ once ] that his " predeceffor Mr. Dryden , and his cotemporary Mr. " Prior excepted ...
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... Virgil finished his Georgics ; and Sir Richard Black- more at the like age compofing his Arthurs , declared the fame to be the very Acme and pitch of life for Epic poefy : Though fince he hath altered it to fixty , the year in which he ...
... Virgil finished his Georgics ; and Sir Richard Black- more at the like age compofing his Arthurs , declared the fame to be the very Acme and pitch of life for Epic poefy : Though fince he hath altered it to fixty , the year in which he ...
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... Virgil , like modern Undertakers , who first build their house and then feek out for a tenant , had contrived the story of a War and a Wandering , before they once thought either of Achilles or Æneas . We fhall therefore fet our good ...
... Virgil , like modern Undertakers , who first build their house and then feek out for a tenant , had contrived the story of a War and a Wandering , before they once thought either of Achilles or Æneas . We fhall therefore fet our good ...
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Page 223 - Night primeval 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 226 - Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Page 80 - In merry old England it once was a rule, The King had his Poet, and also his Fool : But now we're so frugal, I'd have you to know it, That Cibber can serve both for Fool and for Poet.
Page 133 - Ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood.
Page 148 - Silence, ye wolves ! while Ralph to Cynthia howls And makes night hideous — Answer him, ye owls ! " Sense, speech, and measure, living tongues and dead, Let all give way, and Morris may be read.
Page 230 - ... poets were ranged in classes, to which were prefixed almost all the letters of the alphabet (the greatest part of them at random) ; but such...
Page xxi - As for those which are the most known, and the most received, they are placed in so beautiful a light, and illustrated with such apt allusions, that they have in them all the graces of novelty, and make the reader, who was before acquainted with them, still more convinced of their truth and solidity.
Page 148 - My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho' deep, yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 194 - Show all his paces, not a step advance. With the same cement ever sure to bind, We bring to one dead level every mind. Then take him to develop, if you can ; And hew the block off, and get out the man. 270 But wherefore waste I words ? I see advance Whore, pupil,* and laced governor of France. Walker ! our hat : ' nor more he deign'd to say ; But, stern as Ajax
Page 193 - We only furnish what he cannot use, Or wed to what he must divorce, a muse: Full in the midst of Euclid dip at once, And petrify a genius to a dunce: Or set on metaphysic ground to prance, Show all his paces, not a step advance.