The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly, Volume 21835 |
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... Touch the fair fame of Albion's golden days : The thoughts of gods let Granville's verse recite , And bring the scenes of opening fate to light . 426 My humble Muse , in unambitious strains , Paints the WINDSOR FOREST . 23.
... Touch the fair fame of Albion's golden days : The thoughts of gods let Granville's verse recite , And bring the scenes of opening fate to light . 426 My humble Muse , in unambitious strains , Paints the WINDSOR FOREST . 23.
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... verse 201 , expatiates on the study of the critical art ; the second , to verse 560 , develops the besetting sins of erro- neous judgment ; and the third states , what may be termed , the morality of criticism . The theory of ...
... verse 201 , expatiates on the study of the critical art ; the second , to verse 560 , develops the besetting sins of erro- neous judgment ; and the third states , what may be termed , the morality of criticism . The theory of ...
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... verse makes many more in prose . ' Tis with our judgments as our watches , none Go just alike , yet each believes his own . In poets as true genius is but rare , True taste as seldom is the critic's share : Both must alike from Heaven ...
... verse makes many more in prose . ' Tis with our judgments as our watches , none Go just alike , yet each believes his own . In poets as true genius is but rare , True taste as seldom is the critic's share : Both must alike from Heaven ...
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... verses , & c . However , he has the candor to acknowlege other instances against him ; and what are these ? that Garrick could alike personate Lear and Abel Drugger ; and that Macbeth and Falstaff were the work of the same pen . Roscoe ...
... verses , & c . However , he has the candor to acknowlege other instances against him ; and what are these ? that Garrick could alike personate Lear and Abel Drugger ; and that Macbeth and Falstaff were the work of the same pen . Roscoe ...
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... verse , originally inserted the following , which he has however omitted in all the later editions : - Zoilus , had these been known , without a name Had died , and Perault ne'er been damn'd to fame ; The sense of sound antiquity had ...
... verse , originally inserted the following , which he has however omitted in all the later editions : - Zoilus , had these been known , without a name Had died , and Perault ne'er been damn'd to fame ; The sense of sound antiquity had ...
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Page 72 - whispers through the trees ;' If crystal streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep;' Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Page 196 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Page 70 - Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face of nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay ; But true expression, like th' unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
Page 61 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchang'd, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides, Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...
Page 67 - A little learning is a dangerous thing! Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
Page 110 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;) " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace " Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : " One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead— " And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Page 180 - They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge. No place is sacred, not the church is free, Ev'n Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me: Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me, just at dinner-time.
Page 73 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 81 - Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do ; Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Page 69 - The manners, passions, unities, what not? All which, exact to rule, were brought about, Were but a combat in the lists left out. "What! leave the combat out?" exclaims the knight; Yes, or we must renounce the Stagirite. "Not so, by Heaven" (he answers in a rage), "Knights, squires, and steeds, must enter on the stage.