The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4Ingram, Cooke, 1854 |
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Page 76
... Dryden , like our great orator , Burke , often lost as well as gained by his use of homely images and expressions ... Dryden's character of the gay and witty Duke , and Pope's description of the last scene of his life , are sufficient ...
... Dryden , like our great orator , Burke , often lost as well as gained by his use of homely images and expressions ... Dryden's character of the gay and witty Duke , and Pope's description of the last scene of his life , are sufficient ...
Page 77
... Dryden - such as the cha- racters of Lord Hervey and the Duchess of Marlborough , Sporus and Atossa , by Pope . The poet has over - coloured the picture of the Duke of Buckingham's wretched end . He did not die in an inn , but in the ...
... Dryden - such as the cha- racters of Lord Hervey and the Duchess of Marlborough , Sporus and Atossa , by Pope . The poet has over - coloured the picture of the Duke of Buckingham's wretched end . He did not die in an inn , but in the ...
Page 79
... Dryden satirised Buckingham , but Villiers made Dryden satirise himself . " The desire to be witty and pointed has here , as on other occasions , led Walpole too far . The Rehearsal , in point of EP . III . ] 9 ADDITIONAL NOTES . 79.
... Dryden satirised Buckingham , but Villiers made Dryden satirise himself . " The desire to be witty and pointed has here , as on other occasions , led Walpole too far . The Rehearsal , in point of EP . III . ] 9 ADDITIONAL NOTES . 79.
Page 80
... Dryden or Pope . It is a happy caricature of the personal peculiarities of Dryden , and a clever travesty of the most bom- bastic passages in the rhyming tragedies of the day . There is dramatic talent in the piece , but neither vigour ...
... Dryden or Pope . It is a happy caricature of the personal peculiarities of Dryden , and a clever travesty of the most bom- bastic passages in the rhyming tragedies of the day . There is dramatic talent in the piece , but neither vigour ...
Page 91
... place . 28 [ An echo of a line in Dryden's Virgil , book vi.— " These are imperial arts , and worthy thee . " ] EARL OF BURLINGTON . ADDITIONAL NOTES . EARL OF BURLINGTON . Pope could not. EP . IV . ] 16 MORAL ESSAYS . 91.
... place . 28 [ An echo of a line in Dryden's Virgil , book vi.— " These are imperial arts , and worthy thee . " ] EARL OF BURLINGTON . ADDITIONAL NOTES . EARL OF BURLINGTON . Pope could not. EP . IV . ] 16 MORAL ESSAYS . 91.
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Page 76 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 112 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Page 117 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
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Page 67 - Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Page 87 - His gardens next your admiration call, On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Page 59 - Who hung with woods yon mountain's sultry brow ? From the dry rock who bade the waters flow ? Not to the skies in useless columns tost...
Page 91 - Flood contain, The Mole projected break the roaring Main; Back to his bounds their subject Sea command, And roll obedient Rivers thro' the Land: These Honours, Peace to happy Britain brings, These are Imperial Works, and worthy Kings.
Page 132 - There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...
Page 112 - While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...