The Works of the English Poets: PopeH. Hughs, 1779 - English poetry |
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... Admiration and of his Contempt are equally fubfifting , for his works and theirs are the very fame that they were . One , therefore , of their affertions I believe may be true , " That he has a contempt for their writings . ” And there ...
... Admiration and of his Contempt are equally fubfifting , for his works and theirs are the very fame that they were . One , therefore , of their affertions I believe may be true , " That he has a contempt for their writings . ” And there ...
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... admire . 2 " Longinus , in his Reflections , has given us the fame " kind of fublime , which he obferves in the several " paffages that occafioned them : I cannot but take " notice " notice that our English author has after the fame 44 ...
... admire . 2 " Longinus , in his Reflections , has given us the fame " kind of fublime , which he obferves in the several " paffages that occafioned them : I cannot but take " notice " notice that our English author has after the fame 44 ...
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... admire the juftness to the original , or the force and beauty of the language , or the founding " variety of the numbers : But when I find all these " meet , it puts me in mind of what the poet fays of " one of his heroes , That he ...
... admire the juftness to the original , or the force and beauty of the language , or the founding " variety of the numbers : But when I find all these " meet , it puts me in mind of what the poet fays of " one of his heroes , That he ...
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... admire thy ftrain , " All but the selfish , ignorant , and vain ; “ I , whom no bribe to fervile flattery drew , " Must pay the tribute to thy merit due : Thy Mufe fublime , fignificant , and clear , " Alike informs the Soul , and ...
... admire thy ftrain , " All but the selfish , ignorant , and vain ; “ I , whom no bribe to fervile flattery drew , " Must pay the tribute to thy merit due : Thy Mufe fublime , fignificant , and clear , " Alike informs the Soul , and ...
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... Admiration , which is the aim of the greater Epic ; fo from Vanity , Affurance , and Debauchery , fpringeth Buffoonry , the fource of Ridicule , that " laughing ornament , " as he well termeth it , of the little Epic . h Letter to Mr. P ...
... Admiration , which is the aim of the greater Epic ; fo from Vanity , Affurance , and Debauchery , fpringeth Buffoonry , the fource of Ridicule , that " laughing ornament , " as he well termeth it , of the little Epic . h Letter to Mr. P ...
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Page 84 - There motley Images her fancy strike, Figures ill pair'd, and Similies unlike. She sees a Mob of Metaphors advance, Pleas'd with the madness of the mazy dance: How Tragedy and Comedy embrace; How Farce and Epic get a jumbled race; How Time himself stands still at her command, Realms shift their place, and Ocean turns to land.
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Page 24 - Poetry, he will find but few precepts in it which he may not meet with in Aristotle, and which were not commonly known by all the poets of the Augustan age. His way of expressing and applying them, not his invention of them, is what we are chiefly to admire.
Page 223 - 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 232 - Full in the midst of Euclid dip at once, And petrify a genius to a dunce ; Or, set on metaphysic ground to prance, Show all his paces, not a step advance.
Page 203 - Furthermore, it drove out of England (for that season) the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for ten years.
Page 24 - ... mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights. If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry, he will find but few precepts in it which...