The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: The dunciad, in four booksC. Bathurst, 1787 |
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Page iv
... that faid of them ? A very serious truth , which the Public had faid before , that they were dull : And what it had no fooner faid , but they themselves were at great pains to procure , or even purchase room in the 4 iv A LETTER.
... that faid of them ? A very serious truth , which the Public had faid before , that they were dull : And what it had no fooner faid , but they themselves were at great pains to procure , or even purchase room in the 4 iv A LETTER.
Page ix
... dull , have been conftantly the topics of the most candid fatirifts , from the Codrus of JUVENAL to the Damon of BOILEAU . Having mentioned BOILEAU , the greatest Poet and moft judicious Critic of his age and country , admirable for his ...
... dull , have been conftantly the topics of the most candid fatirifts , from the Codrus of JUVENAL to the Damon of BOILEAU . Having mentioned BOILEAU , the greatest Poet and moft judicious Critic of his age and country , admirable for his ...
Page xxv
... dull duty of an editor . " In this project let him lend the bookseller his name " ( for a competent fum of money ) to promote the cre- " dit of an exorbitant subscription . " Gentle reader , be pleased to caft thine eye on the Proposal ...
... dull duty of an editor . " In this project let him lend the bookseller his name " ( for a competent fum of money ) to promote the cre- " dit of an exorbitant subscription . " Gentle reader , be pleased to caft thine eye on the Proposal ...
Page xxviii
... dull " and unjust abuse of a person who wrote in defence " of our Religion and Conftitution , and who has been “ dead many years . " This feemeth also most untrue ; it being known to divers that these Memoirs were writ- ten at the feat ...
... dull " and unjust abuse of a person who wrote in defence " of our Religion and Conftitution , and who has been “ dead many years . " This feemeth also most untrue ; it being known to divers that these Memoirs were writ- ten at the feat ...
Page xxxix
... dull , and that Mr. Pope is the author of it . " The writer of Gulliveriana is of another opinion ; and fays , " the whole , or greatest part , of the merit of " this treatise must and can only be ascribed to Gul- " liver h . " [ Here ...
... dull , and that Mr. Pope is the author of it . " The writer of Gulliveriana is of another opinion ; and fays , " the whole , or greatest part , of the merit of " this treatise must and can only be ascribed to Gul- " liver h . " [ Here ...
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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.