The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4J. F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 - Poets, English |
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... Critics on verse , as squibs on triumphs , wait , Proclaim the glory , and augment the state ; Hot , envious , noisy , proud , the scribbling fry Burn , hiss , and bounce , waste paper , stink , and die ! The epithets , envious and ...
... Critics on verse , as squibs on triumphs , wait , Proclaim the glory , and augment the state ; Hot , envious , noisy , proud , the scribbling fry Burn , hiss , and bounce , waste paper , stink , and die ! The epithets , envious and ...
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... critic can be found that will not place it far above Pope's Pastorals . On reading which ode a certain person exclaimed . " Sweet Bard , who shunn'st the noise of Folly , Most musical , most melancholy ! Thee oft the lonely woods among ...
... critic can be found that will not place it far above Pope's Pastorals . On reading which ode a certain person exclaimed . " Sweet Bard , who shunn'st the noise of Folly , Most musical , most melancholy ! Thee oft the lonely woods among ...
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... Critic come abroad ; If wrong , I smil'd ; if right , I kiss'd the Rod . Pains , reading , study , are their just pretence , And all they want is spirit , taste , and sense . Commas and points they set exactly right , And ' twere a sin ...
... Critic come abroad ; If wrong , I smil'd ; if right , I kiss'd the Rod . Pains , reading , study , are their just pretence , And all they want is spirit , taste , and sense . Commas and points they set exactly right , And ' twere a sin ...
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... criticism , was , of course , to rise with it ; the madness of the Critics soon became so offensive , that the grave stupidity of the Monks might appear the more tolerable evil . J. Argyropylus , a mercenary Greek , who came to teach ...
... criticism , was , of course , to rise with it ; the madness of the Critics soon became so offensive , that the grave stupidity of the Monks might appear the more tolerable evil . J. Argyropylus , a mercenary Greek , who came to teach ...
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... Critics knew how to support his credit . Every one has heard of the childish excesses into which the ambition of being thought CICERONIANS carried the most celebrated Italians of this time . They abstained from reading the Scriptures ...
... Critics knew how to support his credit . Every one has heard of the childish excesses into which the ambition of being thought CICERONIANS carried the most celebrated Italians of this time . They abstained from reading the Scriptures ...
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Page 32 - Peace to all such ! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone. Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 32 - 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 13 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse." If I dislike it, "Furies, death, and rage!" If I approve, "Commend it to the stage.
Page 408 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.
Page 45 - 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. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks, Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Page 53 - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Page 11 - And curses Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What Drop or Nostrum can this plague remove?
Page 52 - Bestia's from the throne. Born to no pride, inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious through his age.
Page 34 - 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 load, On wings of winds came flying all abroad?
Page 369 - It is to the strength of this amazing invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture which is so forcible in Homer that no man of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him.