Selected Poems: The Essay on Criticism, the Moral Essays, the DunciadLongmans, Green, 1888 - 251 pages |
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Page viii
... eyes it is a mere cento of shallow aphorisms and borrowed precepts , derived by Pope from earlier writers on criticism , both ancient and modern , and strung together without much force , grace , or dex- terity . In the enjoyment of ...
... eyes it is a mere cento of shallow aphorisms and borrowed precepts , derived by Pope from earlier writers on criticism , both ancient and modern , and strung together without much force , grace , or dex- terity . In the enjoyment of ...
Page xiv
... eye , Like some fierce tyrant in old tapestry . Essay , 1. 584 . The picture in these lines of Dennis's habitual look and gesture is said to have been ludicrously exact . Nevertheless , the adoption of a pseudonym , Pope might urge ...
... eye , Like some fierce tyrant in old tapestry . Essay , 1. 584 . The picture in these lines of Dennis's habitual look and gesture is said to have been ludicrously exact . Nevertheless , the adoption of a pseudonym , Pope might urge ...
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... eyes , Cavil you may , but never criticise . Be Homer's works your study and delight , Read them by day , and meditate by night ; 120 Thence form your judgment , thence your maxims bring , And trace the Muses upward to their spring ...
... eyes , Cavil you may , but never criticise . Be Homer's works your study and delight , Read them by day , and meditate by night ; 120 Thence form your judgment , thence your maxims bring , And trace the Muses upward to their spring ...
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... eyes , Which out of nature's common order rise , The shapeless rock , or hanging precipice . But though the ancients thus their rules invade , ( As kings dispense with laws themselves have made ) Moderns , beware ! or if you must offend ...
... eyes , Which out of nature's common order rise , The shapeless rock , or hanging precipice . But though the ancients thus their rules invade , ( As kings dispense with laws themselves have made ) Moderns , beware ! or if you must offend ...
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... to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; 230 Th ' increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes , Hills peep o'er hills , and Alps on Alps arise ! A perfect judge will read each work of wit With 8 Essay on Criticism.
... to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way ; 230 Th ' increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes , Hills peep o'er hills , and Alps on Alps arise ! A perfect judge will read each work of wit With 8 Essay on Criticism.
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