The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4J. Murray, 1882 - Poets, English |
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... gentlemen of the ' Dunciad . " " From this narrative it would appear that the ' Dunciad ' was the immediate offspring of the attacks made upon Pope in retaliation for his ' Bathos ; ' that it was ushered into the world with pomp and ...
... gentlemen of the ' Dunciad . " " From this narrative it would appear that the ' Dunciad ' was the immediate offspring of the attacks made upon Pope in retaliation for his ' Bathos ; ' that it was ushered into the world with pomp and ...
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... gentleman . How I became possessed of it is no concern to the Reader ; but it would have been a wrong to him had I detained this publication : since those names which are its chief ornaments die off daily so fast , as must render it ...
... gentleman . How I became possessed of it is no concern to the Reader ; but it would have been a wrong to him had I detained this publication : since those names which are its chief ornaments die off daily so fast , as must render it ...
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... gentleman or head of a house . " The demand for the poem doubtless encouraged him to let the booksellers proceed to ... gentlemen of the Dunciad , " he writes to Lord Oxford on the 18th of April , 1729 , " intend to be vexatious to the ...
... gentleman or head of a house . " The demand for the poem doubtless encouraged him to let the booksellers proceed to ... gentlemen of the Dunciad , " he writes to Lord Oxford on the 18th of April , 1729 , " intend to be vexatious to the ...
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... Gentleman had not procured me ( I suppose from some of themselves , for they are generally much more dangerous friends than enemies ) the passages I send you . I solemnly protest I have added nothing to the malice or absurdity of them ...
... Gentleman had not procured me ( I suppose from some of themselves , for they are generally much more dangerous friends than enemies ) the passages I send you . I solemnly protest I have added nothing to the malice or absurdity of them ...
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... Gentlemen will fall upon one , in an affair wherein his interest and reputation are equally embarked ; they cannot certainly , after they have been content to print themselves his enemies , complain of being put into the number of them ...
... Gentlemen will fall upon one , in an affair wherein his interest and reputation are equally embarked ; they cannot certainly , after they have been content to print themselves his enemies , complain of being put into the number of them ...
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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.