The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: The dunciad, in four booksC. Bathurst, 1787 |
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Page xi
... reader of Humanity , to see all along , that our Author in his very laughter is not indulging his own ill - nature , but only punishing that of others . As to his Poem , thofe alone are capable of doing it juftice , who , to use the ...
... reader of Humanity , to see all along , that our Author in his very laughter is not indulging his own ill - nature , but only punishing that of others . As to his Poem , thofe alone are capable of doing it juftice , who , to use the ...
Page xviii
... reader , if ( following learned example ) I ever and anon become tedious allow me to take the fame pains to find whe- ther my author were good or bad , well or ill natured , modest or arrogant ; as another , whether his author was fair ...
... reader , if ( following learned example ) I ever and anon become tedious allow me to take the fame pains to find whe- ther my author were good or bad , well or ill natured , modest or arrogant ; as another , whether his author was fair ...
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... reader has difco- ❝vered in it something new which is not in Dryden's " prefaces , dedications , and his effay on dramatic 66 poetry , not to mention the French critics , I fhould ' " be very glad to have the benefit of the discovery ...
... reader has difco- ❝vered in it something new which is not in Dryden's " prefaces , dedications , and his effay on dramatic 66 poetry , not to mention the French critics , I fhould ' " be very glad to have the benefit of the discovery ...
Page xxi
... reader muft affent to , when he fees " them explained with that eafe and perfpicuity in " which they are delivered . As for those which are " the most known and the moft received , they are placed " in fo beautiful a light , and ...
... reader muft affent to , when he fees " them explained with that eafe and perfpicuity in " which they are delivered . As for those which are " the most known and the moft received , they are placed " in fo beautiful a light , and ...
Page xxv
... reader , be pleased to caft thine eye on the Proposal below quot- ed , and on what follows ( fome months after the former affertion ) in the fame Journalist of June 8 , " The bookfeller propofed the book by fubfcription , and " raised ...
... reader , be pleased to caft thine eye on the Proposal below quot- ed , and on what follows ( fome months after the former affertion ) in the fame Journalist of June 8 , " The bookfeller propofed the book by fubfcription , and " raised ...
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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.