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Page vi
... against any of the men , of whom scarce one is known to me by fight ; and as for their Writings , I have fought them ( on this one occafion ) in vain , in the clofets and li- braries of all my acquaintance . I had ftill been in the dark ...
... against any of the men , of whom scarce one is known to me by fight ; and as for their Writings , I have fought them ( on this one occafion ) in vain , in the clofets and li- braries of all my acquaintance . I had ftill been in the dark ...
Page vii
... against Palenefs or Leannefs , but against Malice and Villany . The Apothecary in Ro- meo and Juliet is poor ; but is he therefore juftified in vending poison ? Not but Poverty itself becomes a juft fubject of fatire , when it is the ...
... against Palenefs or Leannefs , but against Malice and Villany . The Apothecary in Ro- meo and Juliet is poor ; but is he therefore juftified in vending poison ? Not but Poverty itself becomes a juft fubject of fatire , when it is the ...
Page xi
... against his book of Poems ; Mr. Walsh , after his death ; Sir William Trumbull , when he had refigned the Office of Secretary of State ; Lord Bolingbroke , at his leaving England after the Queen's death ; Lord Oxford in his laft decline ...
... against his book of Poems ; Mr. Walsh , after his death ; Sir William Trumbull , when he had refigned the Office of Secretary of State ; Lord Bolingbroke , at his leaving England after the Queen's death ; Lord Oxford in his laft decline ...
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... it is an ill - natured thing to expose the Pretenders to wit and poetry . The Judges and Magiftrates may with full as good reason be reproached with Ill - nature for putting the Laws * in execution against a Thief or Impoftor . - ( x )
... it is an ill - natured thing to expose the Pretenders to wit and poetry . The Judges and Magiftrates may with full as good reason be reproached with Ill - nature for putting the Laws * in execution against a Thief or Impoftor . - ( x )
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... against Failures in Genius , or against the Pretenfions of writ- ing without one . CONCANEN , Ded . to the Author of the DUNCIAD . A Satire upon Dulness is a thing that has been ufed and allowed in All Ages . Out of thine own Mouth will ...
... against Failures in Genius , or against the Pretenfions of writ- ing without one . CONCANEN , Ded . to the Author of the DUNCIAD . A Satire upon Dulness is a thing that has been ufed and allowed in All Ages . Out of thine own Mouth will ...
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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...