Satires and EpistlesClarendon Press, 1881 - 164 pages |
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... never ob- served in his own practice . His more elaborate portraits are so many virulent and abusive lampoons . In his savage assaults on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , and on Lord Hervey , he passed the bounds of the rules of decorum ...
... never ob- served in his own practice . His more elaborate portraits are so many virulent and abusive lampoons . In his savage assaults on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , and on Lord Hervey , he passed the bounds of the rules of decorum ...
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... never tell what would affront him , and he brooded over particular affronts , scheming revenge in verse . In such cases he was capable of the malice which thirsts for leaving wounds . All those bitter couplets were not impulse or ...
... never tell what would affront him , and he brooded over particular affronts , scheming revenge in verse . In such cases he was capable of the malice which thirsts for leaving wounds . All those bitter couplets were not impulse or ...
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... never derived any pecuniary profit from his writings . In Pope it was the more unpardonable , because it was in great part to literary manufacture - to his English Homer - that he owed his own comfortable home . To use his own sarcasm ...
... never derived any pecuniary profit from his writings . In Pope it was the more unpardonable , because it was in great part to literary manufacture - to his English Homer - that he owed his own comfortable home . To use his own sarcasm ...
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... never be possessed by any one Even were such infallibility attainable , it would be odious that the possessor of it should himself announce it to the rest of mankind . To this it may be replied , that just as the prophet comes forward ...
... never be possessed by any one Even were such infallibility attainable , it would be odious that the possessor of it should himself announce it to the rest of mankind . To this it may be replied , that just as the prophet comes forward ...
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... never transgresses the bounds of legitimate criticism . He had no libels on his conscience . He did indeed rouse the wrath of fashionable authors , and of grandees . He refused homage alike to false taste in writing , and to the noble ...
... never transgresses the bounds of legitimate criticism . He had no libels on his conscience . He did indeed rouse the wrath of fashionable authors , and of grandees . He refused homage alike to false taste in writing , and to the noble ...
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Page 30 - Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer...
Page 125 - With lust and violence the house of God? In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury, and outrage: And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Page 34 - A Cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust; Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Page 25 - Nine years !" cries he, who high in Drury-lane, Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before term ends, Oblig'd by hunger and request of friends : " The piece, you think, is incorrect? why take it ; I'm all submission ; what you'd have it, make it.
Page 24 - 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 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 awhile one parent from the sky...
Page 52 - Be but great, With praise or infamy leave that to fate; Get place and wealth — if possible with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.
Page 28 - I smiled ; if right, I kiss'd the rod. Pains, reading, study, are their just pretence, And all they want is spirit, taste, and sense.
Page 33 - That Fop, whose pride affects a patron's name, Yet absent, wounds an author's honest fame: Who can your merit selfishly approve, And show the sense of it without the love...
Page 146 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he ' had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech.