The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: The DunciadJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... seem by his preferring it to one of Iron , faid to belong to the late king of Sweden k ! But whatever perfonal qualities a Hero may have , the examples of Achilles and Æneas fhew us , that all those are of fmall avail , without the ...
... seem by his preferring it to one of Iron , faid to belong to the late king of Sweden k ! But whatever perfonal qualities a Hero may have , the examples of Achilles and Æneas fhew us , that all those are of fmall avail , without the ...
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... seems to deserve no other way better than his brethren ; unless we impute it to the fhare he had in the Journals , cited among the Teftimonies of Authors prefixed to this work , NOTES . thofe extraordinary hints and motions whereof he ...
... seems to deserve no other way better than his brethren ; unless we impute it to the fhare he had in the Journals , cited among the Teftimonies of Authors prefixed to this work , NOTES . thofe extraordinary hints and motions whereof he ...
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... seems vastly short of his merits , and he ought to have further juftice done him , having fince fully confuted all Sarcafms on his learning and genius by an advertisement of Sept. 20 , 1729. in a paper called the Weekly Medley , & c ...
... seems vastly short of his merits , and he ought to have further juftice done him , having fince fully confuted all Sarcafms on his learning and genius by an advertisement of Sept. 20 , 1729. in a paper called the Weekly Medley , & c ...
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... seems to me a great propriety in this Episode , where fuch an one is imaged by a phantom that deludes the grafp of the expecting Bookfeller . VER . 39. But Juch a Bulk as no twelve bards could raife . ] Vix illud lecti bis fex Qualia ...
... seems to me a great propriety in this Episode , where fuch an one is imaged by a phantom that deludes the grafp of the expecting Bookfeller . VER . 39. But Juch a Bulk as no twelve bards could raife . ] Vix illud lecti bis fex Qualia ...
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... seems to emulate . Full in the middle way there ftood a lake , Which Curl's Corinna chanc'd that morn to make : IMITATIONS . 69 V. 64 , 65. On feet and wings , and flies , and wades , and hops ; So lab'ring on , with shoulders , hands ...
... seems to emulate . Full in the middle way there ftood a lake , Which Curl's Corinna chanc'd that morn to make : IMITATIONS . 69 V. 64 , 65. On feet and wings , and flies , and wades , and hops ; So lab'ring on , with shoulders , hands ...
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Page xxi - And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so well enlarged upon in the preface to his works: That wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn.
Page 167 - The moon-struck prophet felt the madding hour : Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out order, and extinguish light, Of dull and venal a new world to mould, And bring Saturnian days of lead and gold.
Page 227 - Night primaeval 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 134 - 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 192 - 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 159 - This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixtythree days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time ; at Bath and Bristol fifty, &c.
Page 146 - 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 180 - When Reason doubtful, like the Samian letter, Points him two ways, the narrower is the better. Plac'd at the door of Learning, youth to guide, We never suffer it to stand too wide.
Page 27 - Round him much embryo, much abortion lay, Much future ode, and abdicated play...
Page 159 - The person who acted Polly, till then obscure, became all at Once the favourite of the town; her pictures were engraved, and...