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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... original state , was a delicious little thing , and , as he expressed it , merum sal . Mr. Pope was shocked for his friend ; and then first began to open his eyes to his character . Soon after this , a translation of the first book of ...
... original state , was a delicious little thing , and , as he expressed it , merum sal . Mr. Pope was shocked for his friend ; and then first began to open his eyes to his character . Soon after this , a translation of the first book of ...
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... original , than was necessary for his concurrence , in promoting their common plan of reformation of munners . Had it been his purpose merely to paraphrase an ancient satirist , he had hardly made choice of Horace ; with whom , as a ...
... original , than was necessary for his concurrence , in promoting their common plan of reformation of munners . Had it been his purpose merely to paraphrase an ancient satirist , he had hardly made choice of Horace ; with whom , as a ...
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... original and that he clearly resembles in his style , as he did in his natural temper , the severe and serious Juvenal , more than the smiling and sportive Horace . Let us select some passages in which he may be thought to have equalled ...
... original and that he clearly resembles in his style , as he did in his natural temper , the severe and serious Juvenal , more than the smiling and sportive Horace . Let us select some passages in which he may be thought to have equalled ...
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... original barbarism . " Warton . Ver . 11. Not write ? & c . ] He has omitted the most humorous part of the answer : Peream malč , si non Optimum erat : and has lost the grace , by not imitating the conciseness , of verum nequeo dormire ...
... original barbarism . " Warton . Ver . 11. Not write ? & c . ] He has omitted the most humorous part of the answer : Peream malč , si non Optimum erat : and has lost the grace , by not imitating the conciseness , of verum nequeo dormire ...
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... original , Horace calls Lucilius , senis ; not because he was an old man , but because he was of an ancient equestrian family , and was great uncle of Pompey the Great . Lucilius , among other inaccuracies of style , sometimes strangely ...
... original , Horace calls Lucilius , senis ; not because he was an old man , but because he was of an ancient equestrian family , and was great uncle of Pompey the Great . Lucilius , among other inaccuracies of style , sometimes strangely ...
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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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