Observations on Popeauthor, 1796 - 348 pages |
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Page vi
... Thefe Obfervations , which are principally em- ployed on our poet's imitations of his predecef- fors , but not unaccompanied by an intermixture of other topics arifing from the subject , will prove acceptable , I hope , in proportion to ...
... Thefe Obfervations , which are principally em- ployed on our poet's imitations of his predecef- fors , but not unaccompanied by an intermixture of other topics arifing from the subject , will prove acceptable , I hope , in proportion to ...
Page ix
... thefe performances . But I thus pronounce , rather in compliance with popular opinion , than in con- formity to my own conception of the fubject , and , as I think , to Truth itfelf . Thofe poets after a 3 11 after Homer , who have ...
... thefe performances . But I thus pronounce , rather in compliance with popular opinion , than in con- formity to my own conception of the fubject , and , as I think , to Truth itfelf . Thofe poets after a 3 11 after Homer , who have ...
Page xii
... thefe aerial exiftences , in the Rape of the Lock , to feek no further exemplification of the point before us , difplays a boldnefs and felicity of Fancy to which nothing fuperiour can be pro- duced from the collective monuments of ...
... thefe aerial exiftences , in the Rape of the Lock , to feek no further exemplification of the point before us , difplays a boldnefs and felicity of Fancy to which nothing fuperiour can be pro- duced from the collective monuments of ...
Page xiii
... thefe fallies of technical vivacity as the fatiric dialogues of Pope , and various paffages in the Dunciad . But perfpicuity may feem to require a particular illuftration of this fubject by examples . Take one from his Pro- logue to the ...
... thefe fallies of technical vivacity as the fatiric dialogues of Pope , and various paffages in the Dunciad . But perfpicuity may feem to require a particular illuftration of this fubject by examples . Take one from his Pro- logue to the ...
Page xvi
... thefe latter fpecifications I have been abundantly more concife , than I defign-- ed , had the charge of publishing his works de- volved on me . With the general plan and conduct of his poems , where fo much fcope is left for the ...
... thefe latter fpecifications I have been abundantly more concife , than I defign-- ed , had the charge of publishing his works de- volved on me . With the general plan and conduct of his poems , where fo much fcope is left for the ...
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Page 265 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
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Page 279 - This pencil take (she said) whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy ; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Page 195 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heaven pursue.
Page 51 - Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome, (The world's just wonder, and ev'n thine, O Rome!) No single parts unequally surprise, All comes united to th' admiring eyes; No monstrous height, or breadth or length appear; The whole at once is bold and regular.
Page 161 - Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at ev'ry pore? Or quick effluvia darting thro' the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain?
Page 14 - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 286 - Near these a Nursery erects its head. Where queens are form'd, and future heroes bred ; Where unfledg'd actors learn to laugh and cry, Where infant punks their tender voices try, And little Maximins the gods defy.
Page 320 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...