The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4J. F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 - Poets, English |
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... opinion worth regarding , I would say , that the Satires of Juvenal ought never to be read till our taste is fixed and con- firmed , and we are thoroughly tinctured with a knowledge of the Latin language and I mention this my opinion ...
... opinion worth regarding , I would say , that the Satires of Juvenal ought never to be read till our taste is fixed and con- firmed , and we are thoroughly tinctured with a knowledge of the Latin language and I mention this my opinion ...
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... opinion , as ab- surd as a feast made up of sauces . The office of a picturesque ima- gination is to brighten and adorn good sense ; so that to employ it only in description , is like children's delighting in a prism for the sake of its ...
... opinion , as ab- surd as a feast made up of sauces . The office of a picturesque ima- gination is to brighten and adorn good sense ; so that to employ it only in description , is like children's delighting in a prism for the sake of its ...
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... opinion of the English Homer ; and that , being earnestly pressed to declare his sentiments freely , he said , " The verses are good verses , but the work is not Homer , it is Spondanus . " It may , however , be observed in favour of ...
... opinion of the English Homer ; and that , being earnestly pressed to declare his sentiments freely , he said , " The verses are good verses , but the work is not Homer , it is Spondanus . " It may , however , be observed in favour of ...
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... opinion about Horace . Dissension in matters of opinion ( let the subject be what it will ) is natural , I may say , even necessary , and brings no harm . Bitterness , for that reason , is neither necessary nor natural , and what I hope ...
... opinion about Horace . Dissension in matters of opinion ( let the subject be what it will ) is natural , I may say , even necessary , and brings no harm . Bitterness , for that reason , is neither necessary nor natural , and what I hope ...
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... opinion , above the Lutrin of Despreaux . I never saw so amiable an imagination , so gentle graces , so great variety , so much wit , and so refined knowledge of the world , as in this little perform- ance . " MS . Lett . Oct. 15 , 1726 ...
... opinion , above the Lutrin of Despreaux . I never saw so amiable an imagination , so gentle graces , so great variety , so much wit , and so refined knowledge of the world , as in this little perform- ance . " MS . Lett . Oct. 15 , 1726 ...
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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.