The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others: To which Were Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks, Volume 6C. and J. Rivington, 1824 |
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... DUNCIAD . This design he communicated to his excellent friend Dr. ARBUTHNOT ; who , although as a man of wit and learning he might not have been displeased to see their common injuries revenged on this per- nicious tribe ; yet , as our ...
... DUNCIAD . This design he communicated to his excellent friend Dr. ARBUTHNOT ; who , although as a man of wit and learning he might not have been displeased to see their common injuries revenged on this per- nicious tribe ; yet , as our ...
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... DUNCIAD ! let the secret pass , That secret to each fool , that he's an ass : The truth once told ( and wherefore should we lie ? ) The queen of Midas slept , and so may I. You think this cruel ? take it for a rule , 80 No creature ...
... DUNCIAD ! let the secret pass , That secret to each fool , that he's an ass : The truth once told ( and wherefore should we lie ? ) The queen of Midas slept , and so may I. You think this cruel ? take it for a rule , 80 No creature ...
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... Dunciad , to mean a pamphlet containing Mr. Wycherley's Life . Now it happens , that in July , 1715 , the Earl of Warwick ( who died at the age of twenty - three , in August , 1721 ) was only a boy of seventeen , and not likely to be ...
... Dunciad , to mean a pamphlet containing Mr. Wycherley's Life . Now it happens , that in July , 1715 , the Earl of Warwick ( who died at the age of twenty - three , in August , 1721 ) was only a boy of seventeen , and not likely to be ...
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... Dunciad . But the occasion of writing it was such as he would not make public out of regard to his memory : and all that could further be done was to omit the name , in the edition of his works Pope . Ver . 218. On wings of winds came ...
... Dunciad . But the occasion of writing it was such as he would not make public out of regard to his memory : and all that could further be done was to omit the name , in the edition of his works Pope . Ver . 218. On wings of winds came ...
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... Dunciad , intimating , that " it was by a different hand from the other , and found in detached pieces , incorrect and un- finished , " I objected to him the affectation of using so unpromis- ing an attempt to mislead his reader . He ...
... Dunciad , intimating , that " it was by a different hand from the other , and found in detached pieces , incorrect and un- finished , " I objected to him the affectation of using so unpromis- ing an attempt to mislead his reader . He ...
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Page 177 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 82 - Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all seesaw, between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis.
Page 41 - A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross?
Page 36 - 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 a while one parent from the sky!
Page 40 - tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Page 75 - Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do:) Maintain a Poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please : Above a Patron, tho...
Page 414 - ... male necne Lepos saltet; sed quod magis ad nos pertinet et nescire malum est agitamus: utrumne divitiis homines an sint virtute beati; quidve ad amicitias, usus rectumne, trahat nos; 75 et quae sit natura boni summumque quid eius.
Page 462 - So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along : But such is thy avarice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must have starved, and the poet have died. THE BALANCE OF EUROPE. Now Europe balanced, neither side prevails ; For nothing's left in either of the scales.
Page 81 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings...
Page 63 - 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, Alike...