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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... imitating print , which he copied with great correctnefs and ex- acnefs . When he attained his eighth year , he was placed under the private tuition of one Taver- ner , a priest * , who lived fomewhere in Hamp- fhire ; from him he ...
... imitating print , which he copied with great correctnefs and ex- acnefs . When he attained his eighth year , he was placed under the private tuition of one Taver- ner , a priest * , who lived fomewhere in Hamp- fhire ; from him he ...
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... imitation , and applied himself to turn the chief transactions of the Iliad into a kind of play , composed of a number of speeches from Ogilby's tranflation , tacked together with verfes of his own . By his early abilities and winning ...
... imitation , and applied himself to turn the chief transactions of the Iliad into a kind of play , composed of a number of speeches from Ogilby's tranflation , tacked together with verfes of his own . By his early abilities and winning ...
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... imitate it . But he has often de- clared , that the firft propenfity to imitation , proceeded rather from motives of modefty , than vanity . He perceived how defective his own productions were , and endeavoured to mend his compofition ...
... imitate it . But he has often de- clared , that the firft propenfity to imitation , proceeded rather from motives of modefty , than vanity . He perceived how defective his own productions were , and endeavoured to mend his compofition ...
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... imitations of the poet , though lefs commonly obferved . In fhort , from Dryden principally , our bard learnt all the magic of his verfification . From the time he became fo enamoured of Dryden's works , he grew impatient to see the ...
... imitations of the poet , though lefs commonly obferved . In fhort , from Dryden principally , our bard learnt all the magic of his verfification . From the time he became fo enamoured of Dryden's works , he grew impatient to see the ...
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... imitate . " Notwith- standing this modeft declaration , perhaps fome paffages may be juftly deemed original . It is obfervable that a paftoral is appropriated to each season of the year , and that the fcene as well as the hour of the ...
... imitate . " Notwith- standing this modeft declaration , perhaps fome paffages may be juftly deemed original . It is obfervable that a paftoral is appropriated to each season of the year , and that the fcene as well as the hour of 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.