The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4J. Murray, 1882 - Poets, English |
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... original design . The first of these he announced to Swift in a letter dated March 23 , 1727-8 : " As for those scribblers for whom you apprehend I would suppress my ' Dulness ' ( which , by the way , for the future you are to call by a ...
... original design . The first of these he announced to Swift in a letter dated March 23 , 1727-8 : " As for those scribblers for whom you apprehend I would suppress my ' Dulness ' ( which , by the way , for the future you are to call by a ...
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... original hero , encouraged him in his new design , which was executed in an edition of the ' Dunciad ' inserted among the general works of Pope , published by Dodsley and Cooper in 1742. In this edition appeared the Prolegomena of ...
... original hero , encouraged him in his new design , which was executed in an edition of the ' Dunciad ' inserted among the general works of Pope , published by Dodsley and Cooper in 1742. In this edition appeared the Prolegomena of ...
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... original hero of the poem was in itself judicious . Lewis Theobald was a type of the class whom Pope was resolved to crush . He was pedantic , poor , and somewhat malignant . He had attempted with equal ill - success original poetry ...
... original hero of the poem was in itself judicious . Lewis Theobald was a type of the class whom Pope was resolved to crush . He was pedantic , poor , and somewhat malignant . He had attempted with equal ill - success original poetry ...
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... original satire , was the description of Theobald's antiquarian library ; but this was entirely inapplicable to Cibber , who would certainly have committed the twelve volumes of Archæology to the flames without a single pang . It ...
... original satire , was the description of Theobald's antiquarian library ; but this was entirely inapplicable to Cibber , who would certainly have committed the twelve volumes of Archæology to the flames without a single pang . It ...
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... original • Dunciad ' as resolving to betake himself to party writing . It is interesting to observe the rapid development of Pope's own party spirit , as displayed in the alterations made in the later editions of the poem . When his ...
... original • Dunciad ' as resolving to betake himself to party writing . It is interesting to observe the rapid development of Pope's own party spirit , as displayed in the alterations made in the later editions of the poem . When his ...
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Addison alludes allusion Ambrose Philips ancient appears Arbuthnot Bavius Bentley Book booksellers called character Church Cibber Codrus couplet Court critics Curl Curll Dennis died Dryden Duke dull Dulness Dunces Dunciad Earl edition of 1729 Editor's note Elkanah Settle epigram Epistle Essay on Criticism ev'ry eyes fool genius gentle Gildon Goddess hath head Heav'n hero Homer honour Horace Iliad Imitation John King Lady Laureate learned Leonard Welsted letter Lewis Theobald lines London Lord Lord Hervey Miscellanies Mist's Journal Moral Essay Muse nature never o'er octavo Oldmixon Opera Ovid passage person play poem poet poet's Poetry POPE and WARBURTON Pope's praise Preface printed published quarto Queen reader satire says SCRIBLERUS POPE Shakespeare soul Swift thee Theobald things thou thro Tibbald tion translation VARIORUM VERSE Virg Virgil WARBURTON 1743 Welsted words writ writing written
Popular passages
Page 223 - 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 380 - Statesman, yet friend to truth ! of soul sincere. In action faithful, and in honour clear ! Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, Prais'd, wept, and honour'd by the Muse he lov'd.
Page 403 - Thus let me live, unseen, unknown. Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
Page 405 - 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 316 - 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 196 - To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence,' As Fancy opens the quick springs of Sense, We ply the Memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit, and double chain on chain, Confine the thought, to exercise the breath; And keep them in the pale of Words till death...
Page 405 - VITAL spark of heavenly flame ! Quit, oh, quit this mortal frame ! Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying : Oh, the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond nature ! cease thy strife, And let me languish into life ! Hark, they whisper ; angels say,
Page 148 - 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 403 - 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 191 - When lo! a Harlot form soft sliding by, With mincing step, small voice, and languid eye: Foreign her air, her robe's discordant pride In patch-work flutt'ring, and her head aside: By singing Peers up-held on either hand, She tripp'd and laugh'd, too pretty much to stand: Cast on the prostrate Nine a scornful look, Then thus in quaint Recitative spoke.