Satires and EpistlesClarendon Press, 1881 - 164 pages |
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... Literature was a mere arena of partisan warfare . Poetry had degenerated into rhymed pamphlets . The public , barbarised by the gladiatorial spectacle of politics , could relish nothing but blows , and blows were then most applauded ...
... Literature was a mere arena of partisan warfare . Poetry had degenerated into rhymed pamphlets . The public , barbarised by the gladiatorial spectacle of politics , could relish nothing but blows , and blows were then most applauded ...
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... literature , one of his many affectations . Either of these views appears to be too general and absolute . It must be allowed that Pope is not animated by the genuine passion of the social reformer , the burning indignation against ...
... literature , one of his many affectations . Either of these views appears to be too general and absolute . It must be allowed that Pope is not animated by the genuine passion of the social reformer , the burning indignation against ...
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... literature . He called them his ' enemies , ' and it is true that they had defamed him . They could not forgive TM him his success — a success which they had failed in achieving themselves . A distinguished literary success is , like ...
... literature . He called them his ' enemies , ' and it is true that they had defamed him . They could not forgive TM him his success — a success which they had failed in achieving themselves . A distinguished literary success is , like ...
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... literature of his country . His verdicts are unimpeachable , his decisions without appeal . His Satires and Epistles have made , for more than a century , an integral part of all liberal education in France . They do not require the ...
... literature of his country . His verdicts are unimpeachable , his decisions without appeal . His Satires and Epistles have made , for more than a century , an integral part of all liberal education in France . They do not require the ...
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... literature . ) The failures and the successes of such an artist in language are equally instructive to a learner . This exquisite skill of literary composition is that which places Pope in the first rank of English classics . But over ...
... literature . ) The failures and the successes of such an artist in language are equally instructive to a learner . This exquisite skill of literary composition is that which places Pope in the first rank of English classics . But over ...
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Page 30 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer: Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike ; Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Page 125 - With lust and violence the house of God? In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury, and outrage: And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Page 24 - 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.
Page 28 - Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flow'ry theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream.
Page 146 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he ' had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech.
Page 25 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse." If I dislike it, " Furies, death, and rage! " If I approve,
Page 27 - One flatt'rer's worse than all. Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It is the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent: Alas ! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates in high heroic prose, And ridicules beyond a hundred foes; One from all Grub Street will my fame defend, And, more abusive, calls himself my friend. This prints my letters, that expects a bribe, And others roar aloud, 'Subscribe, subscribe.
Page 25 - And to be grave, exceeds all power of face. I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish, and an aching head; And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, — 'Keep your piece nine years.
Page 146 - 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 33 - 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.