The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Carefully Collated and Compared with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and CommentatorsEditor, and sold, 1778 |
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... writ ; " How Shadwell hafty , Wycherly was flow § ; " But , for the paffions , Southern fure and Rowe . " Thefe , only thefe , fupport the crouded stage , " From eldeft Heywood down to Cibber's age . ' All this may be ; the people's ...
... writ ; " How Shadwell hafty , Wycherly was flow § ; " But , for the paffions , Southern fure and Rowe . " Thefe , only thefe , fupport the crouded stage , " From eldeft Heywood down to Cibber's age . ' All this may be ; the people's ...
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... writ romance . Then marble , soften'd into life , grew warm , And yielding metal flow'd to human form : Lely on animated canvas ftole 140 145 The fleeping eye § , that spoke the melting soul . No wonder then , when all was love and ...
... writ romance . Then marble , soften'd into life , grew warm , And yielding metal flow'd to human form : Lely on animated canvas ftole 140 145 The fleeping eye § , that spoke the melting soul . No wonder then , when all was love and ...
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... writ ! How Van wants grace , who never wanted wit ! ९ The stage how loosely does Aftræa + tread , Who fairly puts all characters to bed ! And idle Cibber , how he breaks the laws , To make poor Pinky eat with vaft applause ! But fill ...
... writ ! How Van wants grace , who never wanted wit ! ९ The stage how loosely does Aftræa + tread , Who fairly puts all characters to bed ! And idle Cibber , how he breaks the laws , To make poor Pinky eat with vaft applause ! But fill ...
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... writ of kings ) Cloathe spice , line trunks , or flutt'ring in a row , Befringe the rails of Bedlam and Soho . 405 410 415 Archbishop Tillotfon hath faid , " That fatire and invective were the " eafieft kind of wit , because almoft any ...
... writ of kings ) Cloathe spice , line trunks , or flutt'ring in a row , Befringe the rails of Bedlam and Soho . 405 410 415 Archbishop Tillotfon hath faid , " That fatire and invective were the " eafieft kind of wit , because almoft any ...
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... writ . 285 To wash the ftains away : although I yet ( With Maccabees modefty ) the known merit Of my work leffen , yet fome wife men fhall , hope , efteem my writs canonical . EPI EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRE S. M TWO DIALOGUES : Written SAT ...
... writ . 285 To wash the ftains away : although I yet ( With Maccabees modefty ) the known merit Of my work leffen , yet fome wife men fhall , hope , efteem my writs canonical . EPI EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRE S. M TWO DIALOGUES : Written SAT ...
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Page 127 - And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so well enlarged upon in the preface to his works: That wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn.
Page 2 - Pope. Friend to my life, (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love?
Page 104 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Page 3 - The truth once told (and wherefore should we lie?) The Queen of Midas slept, and so may I. You think this cruel ? take it for a rule, No creature smarts so little as a fool. Let peals of laughter, Codrus ! round thee break, 85 Thou unconcern'd canst hear the mighty crack: Pit, box, and gall'ry in convulsions hurl'd, Thou stand'st unshook amidst a bursting world. Who shames a Scribbler? break one cobweb thro...
Page 9 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or, at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad...
Page 281 - We only furnish what he cannot use, Or wed to what he must divorce, a muse: 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 11 - If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit...
Page 2 - And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove?
Page 171 - Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, Where o'er the gates, by his fam'd father's hand Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand; One Cell there is, conceal'd from vulgar eye, The Cave of Poverty and Poetry. Keen, hollow winds howl thro' the bleak recess, Emblem of Music caus'd by Emptiness.
Page 127 - ... or science, which have not been touched upon by others ; we have little else left us but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights. If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry...