The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Compiled from Original Manuscripts; with a Critical Essay on His Writings and GeniusC. Bathurst, H. Woodfall, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, W. Johnston, B. White, T. Caslon, T. Longman, B. Law, Johnson and Payne, S. Bladon, T. Cadell, and the executors of A. Millar., 1769 - Biography - 578 pages |
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... fhew how little our bard was deficient in this talent . " In genial spring , beneath the quiv'ring fhade , " Where cooling vapours breathe along the " mead , " The patient fisher takes his filent stand , " Intent , his angle trembling ...
... fhew how little our bard was deficient in this talent . " In genial spring , beneath the quiv'ring fhade , " Where cooling vapours breathe along the " mead , " The patient fisher takes his filent stand , " Intent , his angle trembling ...
Page 80
... fhew the refem- blance between an inflated mind and a bloated body , is the most happy that could be conceived . Superficial learning is the next cause which our author expofes . He advises the critic to " Drink deep , or taste not the ...
... fhew the refem- blance between an inflated mind and a bloated body , is the most happy that could be conceived . Superficial learning is the next cause which our author expofes . He advises the critic to " Drink deep , or taste not the ...
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... , and preffed him to fhew it to the Lords Oxford and Bolingbroke , and to repeat his affurances to them , that he did not by any means intend it as a party play . Our As this prologue is a model for this fpecies of 149 THE LIFE OF.
... , and preffed him to fhew it to the Lords Oxford and Bolingbroke , and to repeat his affurances to them , that he did not by any means intend it as a party play . Our As this prologue is a model for this fpecies of 149 THE LIFE OF.
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... fhew you have the virtue to be mov'd ; " he very strongly objected to the boldness of the expreffion , faying , it would be called ftirring the people to rebellion , and therefore earneftly begged of our author to foften it , by fub ...
... fhew you have the virtue to be mov'd ; " he very strongly objected to the boldness of the expreffion , faying , it would be called ftirring the people to rebellion , and therefore earneftly begged of our author to foften it , by fub ...
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... fhew the univerfality of Mr. POPE's genius , being penned with all the eafe , gaiety , and vivacity fuitable to the levity of the subjects , and the years of the author . Most of the tranflations were but a fort of exercises , while he ...
... fhew the univerfality of Mr. POPE's genius , being penned with all the eafe , gaiety , and vivacity fuitable to the levity of the subjects , and the years of the author . Most of the tranflations were but a fort of exercises , while he ...
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Page 265 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Page 231 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!
Page 123 - In some lone isle, or distant northern land; Where the gilt chariot never marks the way, Where none learn ombre, none e'er taste bohea!
Page 231 - The proper study of mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err...
Page 192 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 124 - Who would not scorn what Housewife's Cares produce, Or who would learn one earthly Thing of Use ? To patch, nay ogle, might become a Saint, Nor could it sure be such a Sin to paint. But since, alas ! frail Beauty must decay...
Page 163 - Come, Abelard ! for what hast thou to dread ? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature stands check'd ; Religion disapproves ; Ev'n thou art cold — yet Eloisa loves. 260 Ah hopeless, lasting flames ! like those that burn To light the dead, and warm th
Page 381 - But chief her shrine where naked Venus keeps, And Cupids ride the Lion of the Deeps; Where, eas'd of Fleets, the Adriatic main Wafts the smooth Eunuch and enamour'd swain.
Page 80 - She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For, as in bodies, thus in souls we find, What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Page 239 - Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod; The state of Nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man.