The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: The dunciad, in four booksC. Bathurst, 1787 |
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Page viii
... never defired them to be his admirers , nor promifed in return to be theirs That had truly been a fign he was of their acquaintance ; but would not the malicious world have fufpected fuch an approbation of fome motive worse than ...
... never defired them to be his admirers , nor promifed in return to be theirs That had truly been a fign he was of their acquaintance ; but would not the malicious world have fufpected fuch an approbation of fome motive worse than ...
Page ix
... never to be made fo , in complaifance to a few who are . Accordingly we find that in all ages , all vain pretenders , were they ever fo poor or ever fo dull , have been conftantly the topics of the most candid fatirifts , from the ...
... never to be made fo , in complaifance to a few who are . Accordingly we find that in all ages , all vain pretenders , were they ever fo poor or ever fo dull , have been conftantly the topics of the most candid fatirifts , from the ...
Page xi
... never efpoufed their Animofities ; and can almost singly challenge this honour , not to have written a line of any man , which , through Guilt , through Shame , or through Fear , through va- riety of Fortune , or change of Interefts ...
... never efpoufed their Animofities ; and can almost singly challenge this honour , not to have written a line of any man , which , through Guilt , through Shame , or through Fear , through va- riety of Fortune , or change of Interefts ...
Page xvii
... never at the distance of a few months appear to the eye of the most curious . Hereby thou mayft not only receive the delectation of Variety , but also arrive at a more certain judgment , by a grave and circumfpect compa rifon of the ...
... never at the distance of a few months appear to the eye of the most curious . Hereby thou mayft not only receive the delectation of Variety , but also arrive at a more certain judgment , by a grave and circumfpect compa rifon of the ...
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... never made public , till after their own Journals , and Curl had printed the fame . One name alone , which I am here authorised to de- clare , will fufficiently evince this truth , that of the right honourable the Earl of BURLINGTON ...
... never made public , till after their own Journals , and Curl had printed the fame . One name alone , which I am here authorised to de- clare , will fufficiently evince this truth , that of the right honourable the Earl of BURLINGTON ...
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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.