The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4J. Murray, 1882 - Poets, English |
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... dulness of those who had only malice to recommend them , either the booksellers would not find their account in employing them , or the men themselves , when discovered , want courage to proceed in so unlawful an occupa- tion . This it ...
... dulness of those who had only malice to recommend them , either the booksellers would not find their account in employing them , or the men themselves , when discovered , want courage to proceed in so unlawful an occupa- tion . This it ...
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... Dulness , ' and many circumstances in the poem itself seem to confirm the truth of the rumour . In the first edition the Publisher says , in an Advertisement to the Reader : " I have been well informed that this labour was the work of ...
... Dulness , ' and many circumstances in the poem itself seem to confirm the truth of the rumour . In the first edition the Publisher says , in an Advertisement to the Reader : " I have been well informed that this labour was the work of ...
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... Dulness , ' which after I am dead and gone will be printed . with a large commentary , and lettered on the back , Pope's Dulness . ' I send you , however , what most nearly relates to yourself , the inscription to it , which you must ...
... Dulness , ' which after I am dead and gone will be printed . with a large commentary , and lettered on the back , Pope's Dulness . ' I send you , however , what most nearly relates to yourself , the inscription to it , which you must ...
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... Dulness ' ( which , by the way , for the future you are to call by a more pompous name , the ' Dunciad ' ) , how much that nest of hornets are my regard , will easily appear to you when you read the Treatise of the ' Bathos . " " A more ...
... Dulness ' ( which , by the way , for the future you are to call by a more pompous name , the ' Dunciad ' ) , how much that nest of hornets are my regard , will easily appear to you when you read the Treatise of the ' Bathos . " " A more ...
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... ( Dulness and Poverty ) was to be exemplified in some one great and remarkable action : and none could be more so than that which our poet hath chosen , viz . , the restoration of the reign of Chaos and Night by the ministry of Dulness ...
... ( Dulness and Poverty ) was to be exemplified in some one great and remarkable action : and none could be more so than that which our poet hath chosen , viz . , the restoration of the reign of Chaos and Night by the ministry of Dulness ...
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abused Addison Alluding allusion ancient appears Arbuthnot Bavius Behold Bentley booksellers BURTON called character Church Cibber Codrus Concanen couplet Court Curl declared Dennis Dryden Duke dull Dulness Dunces Dunciad Earl edition of 1729 Editor's note Elkanah Settle Epic epigram Epistle Essay on Criticism ev'ry eyes fool genius gentleman Gildon Goddess hath head Heav'n hero heroic Homer honour Horace Iliad imitation John King Laureate learned Leonard Welsted letter Lewis Theobald London Lord Lord Hervey Mist's Journal Moral Muse nature never o'er octavo Oldmixon Opera Ovid paper passage person play poem poet poet's poetical Poetry POPE and WARBURTON Pope's praise Preface printed published quarto Queen reader saith satire says SCRIBLERUS POPE Shakespeare soul Swift thee Theobald things thou thro Tibbald tion translation VERSE Virg Virgil WARBURTON 1743 Welsted words writ writing written
Popular passages
Page 225 - Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word ; Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Page 407 - Thus let me live, unseen, unknown. Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
Page 409 - Hark! they whisper; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?
Page 318 - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Page 407 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Page 204 - 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 285 - To where Fleet-ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood.
Page 385 - No conquest she, but o'er herself, desir'd ; No arts essay'd, but not to be admir'd. Passion and pride were to her soul unknown, Convinc'd that virtue only is our own. So unaffected, so compos'da mind, So firm, yet soft, so strong, yet so refin'd, Heav'n, as its purest gold, by tortures try'd ; The saint sustain'd it, but the woman dy'd.
Page 112 - Fruits of dull heat, and sooterkins of wit. Next, o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole, How here he sipp'd, how there he plunder'd snug, And suck'd all o'er, like an industrious bug.
Page 333 - No'w from all Parts the swelling Kennels flow, And bear their Trophies with them as they go: Filth of all Hues and Odours seem to tell What Street they sail'd from, by their Sight and Smell.