The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton, Volume 5J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... genius and spirit , which its parent feems to have abandoned from the very beginning , and fuffered to step into the world naked , unguarded , and unattended . It was upon reading fome of the abufive papers lately published , that my ...
... genius and spirit , which its parent feems to have abandoned from the very beginning , and fuffered to step into the world naked , unguarded , and unattended . It was upon reading fome of the abufive papers lately published , that my ...
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... genius , was to have an exclufive right to abuse whom he chofe , and to make an outcry when what he meafared to others was measured to him again ? his trial by his Country . But when his Moral B 3 TO THE PUBLISHER . 5.
... genius , was to have an exclufive right to abuse whom he chofe , and to make an outcry when what he meafared to others was measured to him again ? his trial by his Country . But when his Moral B 3 TO THE PUBLISHER . 5.
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... Genius , or against the Pretenfions of writing without one . Concanen , Ded . to the Author of the Dunciad . A Satire upon Dullness is a thing that has been ufed and allowed in all ages . Out of thine own Mouth will I judge thee ...
... Genius , or against the Pretenfions of writing without one . Concanen , Ded . to the Author of the Dunciad . A Satire upon Dullness is a thing that has been ufed and allowed in all ages . Out of thine own Mouth will I judge thee ...
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... genius , and of the fortune as well as merit , of our Author : In which if I relate fome things of little concern peradventure to thee , and fome of as little even to him ; I entreat thee to confider how minutely all true critics and ...
... genius , and of the fortune as well as merit , of our Author : In which if I relate fome things of little concern peradventure to thee , and fome of as little even to him ; I entreat thee to confider how minutely all true critics and ...
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... genius for each bus'ness fit , Whose meanest talent is his wit , " & c . Let us now recreate thee by turning to the other fide , and fhewing his character drawn by those with whom he never converfed , and whofe countenances he could not ...
... genius for each bus'ness fit , Whose meanest talent is his wit , " & c . Let us now recreate thee by turning to the other fide , and fhewing his character drawn by those with whom he never converfed , and whofe countenances he could not ...
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Page 331 - 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 295 - For thee we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With all such reading as was never read : For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, goddess, and about it : So spins the silkworm small its slender store, And labours till it clouds itself all o'er.
Page 262 - Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night!
Page 28 - Poetry, he will find but few precepts in it which he may not meet with in Aristotle, and which were not commonly known by all the poets of the Augustan age. His way of expressing and applying them, not his invention of them, is what we are chiefly to admire.
Page 267 - Too mad for mere material chains to bind : Now to pure space lifts her ecstatic stare, Now running round the circle, finds it square.
Page 110 - Cracks and Zig-zags of the Head; All that on Folly Frenzy could beget, Fruits of dull Heat, and Sooterkins of Wit. Next, o'er his Books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole, How here he sipp'd, how there he plunder'd snug And suck'd all o'er, like an industrious Bug.
Page 104 - 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 239 - Thence a new world to Nature's laws unknown, Breaks out refulgent, with a heav'n its own : Another Cynthia her new journey runs, And other planets circle other suns. The forests dance, the rivers upward rise 245 Whales sport in woods, and dolphins in the skies ; And last, to give the whole creation grace, Lo ! one vast egg produces human race. Joy fills his soul, joy innocent of thought ; What pow'r, he cries, what pow'r these wonders wrought?
Page 263 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...
Page 28 - ... or science, which have not been touched upon by others ; we have little else left us but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights. If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry...