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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... fhould engage the reader to review his own opinions . Where he hath presumed to differ from the moft refpectable authorities , he would be rather understood to propose a doubt , than to offer a contradiction : he is not fo vain , 10 ...
... fhould engage the reader to review his own opinions . Where he hath presumed to differ from the moft refpectable authorities , he would be rather understood to propose a doubt , than to offer a contradiction : he is not fo vain , 10 ...
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... fhould , even under the like early cultivation , bear fuch unequal crops of fame . But if we attend minutely to the caufes by which men have acquired renown , we fhall find that perhaps the far greater part owed their reputation to ...
... fhould , even under the like early cultivation , bear fuch unequal crops of fame . But if we attend minutely to the caufes by which men have acquired renown , we fhall find that perhaps the far greater part owed their reputation to ...
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... fhould read , faid he , in a very different manner now than when I had my early fit of reading , from 14 to 20. Then it was merely from the amusement the ftory afforded me , now it fhould be with the view of learn- ing how to make ...
... fhould read , faid he , in a very different manner now than when I had my early fit of reading , from 14 to 20. Then it was merely from the amusement the ftory afforded me , now it fhould be with the view of learn- ing how to make ...
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... fhould blush to mislead , fo I equally fcorn to prepoffefs the reader . The paftorals are the first pieces which fall under the examination of our critic ; and with respect to thefe , he obferves in the very open- ing , " that it is ...
... fhould blush to mislead , fo I equally fcorn to prepoffefs the reader . The paftorals are the first pieces which fall under the examination of our critic ; and with respect to thefe , he obferves in the very open- ing , " that it is ...
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... fhould dance again , " The moving mountains hear the pow'rful call , " And headlong ftreams hang lift'ning in their fall . " The laft line furely presents a new image , and a bold one too * . The following couplet likewise from the ...
... fhould dance again , " The moving mountains hear the pow'rful call , " And headlong ftreams hang lift'ning in their fall . " The laft line furely presents a new image , and a bold one too * . The following couplet likewise from the ...
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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.