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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... mean for empty praise of wit to write , As foplings grin to shew their teeth are white . To brand a doubtful folly with a smile , 180 Or madly blaze unknown defects , is vile : ' Tis doubly vile , when , but to prove your art , You fix ...
... mean for empty praise of wit to write , As foplings grin to shew their teeth are white . To brand a doubtful folly with a smile , 180 Or madly blaze unknown defects , is vile : ' Tis doubly vile , when , but to prove your art , You fix ...
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... mean time , be so far from countenancing such worthless trash in others , that he would be ready to execrate even his own best vein of poetry , if made at the expense of truth and innocence : " Curs'd be the verse , how well soe'er it ...
... mean time , be so far from countenancing such worthless trash in others , that he would be ready to execrate even his own best vein of poetry , if made at the expense of truth and innocence : " Curs'd be the verse , how well soe'er it ...
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... mean scribblers that attacked him , suddenly breaks out with this spirited complaint of the ill - usage he had sustained . This piece was published in the year 1734 , in the form of an Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot . It is now given as a ...
... mean scribblers that attacked him , suddenly breaks out with this spirited complaint of the ill - usage he had sustained . This piece was published in the year 1734 , in the form of an Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot . It is now given as a ...
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... means , sung by Persius ; and the words alluded to are The transition is fine , but obscure ; for he has here imitated the manner of that mysterious writer , as well as taken up his image . Our author had been hitherto complaining of ...
... means , sung by Persius ; and the words alluded to are The transition is fine , but obscure ; for he has here imitated the manner of that mysterious writer , as well as taken up his image . Our author had been hitherto complaining of ...
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... means authors of the same class ; though the violence of party might hurry them into the same mistakes . But if the first offended this way , it was only through an honest warmth of temper , that allowed too little to an excellent ...
... means authors of the same class ; though the violence of party might hurry them into the same mistakes . But if the first offended this way , it was only through an honest warmth of temper , that allowed too little to an excellent ...
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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 464 - 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...
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| Title | 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 6 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, Alexander Pope |
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| Publisher | C. and J. Rivington, 1824 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | May 24, 2007 |
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