The Poetical Works: Of Alexander Pope, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. From the Text of Dr. Warburton. With the Life of the Author. Cooke's Pocket Edition. ... Embellished with Superb Engravings, Volume 2C. Cooke, 1795 |
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... translate , And own'd that nine fuch poets made a Tate . How did they fume , and stamp , and roar , and chafe ! And swear not Addison himself was safe . Peace to all fuch ! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles , and fair ...
... translate , And own'd that nine fuch poets made a Tate . How did they fume , and stamp , and roar , and chafe ! And swear not Addison himself was safe . Peace to all fuch ! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles , and fair ...
Page 154
... Translation of Fresnoy's Art of Painting . * THIS verse be thine , my Friend ! nor thou refufe This from no venal or ungrateful Mufe . Whether thy hand strike out fome free design , Where life awakes , and dawns at ev'ry line , Or blend ...
... Translation of Fresnoy's Art of Painting . * THIS verse be thine , my Friend ! nor thou refufe This from no venal or ungrateful Mufe . Whether thy hand strike out fome free design , Where life awakes , and dawns at ev'ry line , Or blend ...
Page 168
... translated fuit then tries the Town , With borrow'd pins , and patches not her own ; 20 But just endur'd the winter she began , And in four months a batter'd harridan : Now nothing left , but wither'd , pale , and shrunk , To bawd for ...
... translated fuit then tries the Town , With borrow'd pins , and patches not her own ; 20 But just endur'd the winter she began , And in four months a batter'd harridan : Now nothing left , but wither'd , pale , and shrunk , To bawd for ...
Page 195
... Translation of the Iliad was not in all " respects conformable to the fine taste of his friend " Mr. Addifon ... translations of old Greek and Latin authors . We " have already most of their historians in our own tongue ; and ...
... Translation of the Iliad was not in all " respects conformable to the fine taste of his friend " Mr. Addifon ... translations of old Greek and Latin authors . We " have already most of their historians in our own tongue ; and ...
Page 227
... translated him into their languages , ) of all this number not a man hath stood up to fay one word in his de- fence . The only exception is the author of the following Poem , who doubtless had either a better insfight into the grounds ...
... translated him into their languages , ) of all this number not a man hath stood up to fay one word in his de- fence . The only exception is the author of the following Poem , who doubtless had either a better insfight into the grounds ...
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