The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton, Volume 1A. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, C. Bathurst, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, J. Richardson, B. Law, S. Crowder, T. Longman, T. Field, and T. Caslon, 1760 - English literature |
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... caufe . But tho ' the term be noble and fublime , yet the expreffion of thick films is faulty ; and he fell into it by 66 IMITATIONS . Ipfi lætitia voces ad fydera jactant Intonfi montes , ipfæ jam carmina rupes , Ipfa fonant arbufta ...
... caufe . But tho ' the term be noble and fublime , yet the expreffion of thick films is faulty ; and he fell into it by 66 IMITATIONS . Ipfi lætitia voces ad fydera jactant Intonfi montes , ipfæ jam carmina rupes , Ipfa fonant arbufta ...
Page 156
... caufe of the lofs of common fenfe . For Wit confifting in chufing out , and fetting together fuch Ideas from whofe affemblage pleasant pictures may be drawn on the Fancy ; the Judgment thro ' an habitual fearch of Wit , lofes , by ...
... caufe of the lofs of common fenfe . For Wit confifting in chufing out , and fetting together fuch Ideas from whofe affemblage pleasant pictures may be drawn on the Fancy ; the Judgment thro ' an habitual fearch of Wit , lofes , by ...
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... caufe of it in the epithet he has given to the Imagination . For , if , according to the Atomic Philofophy , the memory of things be preferved in a chain of ideas , produced by the ani- mal fpirits moving in continued trains ; the force ...
... caufe of it in the epithet he has given to the Imagination . For , if , according to the Atomic Philofophy , the memory of things be preferved in a chain of ideas , produced by the ani- mal fpirits moving in continued trains ; the force ...
Page 175
... caufe of wrong Judg- ment is PRIDE . He judiciously begins with this , [ from ver . 200 to 215. ] as on other accounts , fo on this , that it is the very thing which gives modern Criticism its character ; whose complexion is abuse and ...
... caufe of wrong Judg- ment is PRIDE . He judiciously begins with this , [ from ver . 200 to 215. ] as on other accounts , fo on this , that it is the very thing which gives modern Criticism its character ; whose complexion is abuse and ...
Page 177
... caufe which is laid down firft , ' has its own particular caufe in that which follows . Thus , the se cond caufe of wrong Judgment , SUPERFICIAL LEARNING , is what occafions that critical Pride , which he places first . VER . 216. Drink ...
... caufe which is laid down firft , ' has its own particular caufe in that which follows . Thus , the se cond caufe of wrong Judgment , SUPERFICIAL LEARNING , is what occafions that critical Pride , which he places first . VER . 216. Drink ...
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Page 243 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Page 146 - 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 261 - For, that sad moment, when the sylphs withdrew^ And Ariel weeping from Belinda flew, Umbriel, a dusky, melancholy sprite, As ever sullied the fair face of light, Down to the central earth, his proper scene, Repair'd to search the gloomy cave of Spleen.
Page 253 - The rebel Knave, who dares his prince engage, Proves the just victim of his royal rage.
Page 186 - Some to Conceit alone their taste confine, And glitt'ring thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; 290 Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets like painters, thus, unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 And hide with ornaments their want of art.
Page 245 - Their fluid bodies half dissolv'd in light. Loose to the wind their airy garments flew, Thin glitt'ring textures of the filmy dew, Dipt in the richest tincture of the skies, Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes, While ev'ry beam new transient colours flings, Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings.
Page 236 - Soft yielding minds to Water glide away, And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental Tea. The graver Prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of mischief still on Earth to roam. The light Coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of Air.
Page 254 - He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts the sky...
Page 98 - The swain in barren deserts with surprise Sees lilies spring, and sudden verdure rise ; And starts, amidst the thirsty wilds to hear New falls of water murmuring in his ear. On rifted rocks, the dragon's late abodes, The green reed trembles, and the bulrush nods.
Page 262 - Here living tea-pots stand, one arm held out, One bent ; the handle this, and that the spout...