The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe, Volume 1Longman, Brown and Company, 1847 |
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Page 89
... passing for twenty - one shillings and sixpence has occasioned the fractions . " - D'Israeli's Quarrels of Authors , vol . i . p . 288 . variety of poetical composition , and had initiated him in 1713. ] 89 POPE'S EARLY PRODUCTIONS .
... passing for twenty - one shillings and sixpence has occasioned the fractions . " - D'Israeli's Quarrels of Authors , vol . i . p . 288 . variety of poetical composition , and had initiated him in 1713. ] 89 POPE'S EARLY PRODUCTIONS .
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... shillings . It had been stipulated that no copies should be printed in quarto , except for the subscribers ; but besides these Lintot printed , for his own benefit , from the same im- pression , two hundred and fifty volumes on royal ...
... shillings . It had been stipulated that no copies should be printed in quarto , except for the subscribers ; but besides these Lintot printed , for his own benefit , from the same im- pression , two hundred and fifty volumes on royal ...
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... shillings for his trouble as editor ; but the subscription was not full , and the price of the volumes , for the time , was very high ; which , with other circumstances , so far depreciated the work , that , as Johnson informs us , one ...
... shillings for his trouble as editor ; but the subscription was not full , and the price of the volumes , for the time , was very high ; which , with other circumstances , so far depreciated the work , that , as Johnson informs us , one ...
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... . Part I. " London : printed for J. Welford , at the Three Flower - de - luces , behind the Chapter House , St. Paul's . Fol . Price One Shilling . of a new kind was ascribed to one or another 1733. ] 303 THE ESSAY ON MAN .
... . Part I. " London : printed for J. Welford , at the Three Flower - de - luces , behind the Chapter House , St. Paul's . Fol . Price One Shilling . of a new kind was ascribed to one or another 1733. ] 303 THE ESSAY ON MAN .
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... shilling each . To the second , was prefixed the following address : " TO THE READER . " The author has been induced to publish these epistles separately for two reasons the one , that he might not impose upon the public too much at ...
... shilling each . To the second , was prefixed the following address : " TO THE READER . " The author has been induced to publish these epistles separately for two reasons the one , that he might not impose upon the public too much at ...
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Page 135 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 168 - For forms of government let fools contest: Whate'er is best administer'd is best: For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right; In faith and hope the world will disagree.
Page 8 - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky...
Page 159 - Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more ; Such, if there be, who loves so long, so well ; Let him our sad, our tender story tell ! The well-sung woes will sooth my pensive ghost ; He best can paint them who shall feel them most ! THE TEMPLE OF FAME.
Page 441 - Horace, and, though lean, am short, Ammon's great son one shoulder had too high, Such Ovid's nose, and "Sir! you have an eye"— Go on, obliging creatures, make me see All that disgraced my betters, met in me. Say for my comfort, languishing in bed, "Just so immortal Maro held his head:" And when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago.
Page 116 - Iliad, because he had looked over Mr. Tickell's, but could wish to have the benefit of his observations on my second, which I had then finished, and which Mr. Tickell had not touched upon.
Page 7 - Bestia's from the throne. Born to no pride, inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious through his age.
Page 135 - The next day, while I was heated with what I had heard, I wrote a letter to Mr. Addison, to let him know that I was not unacquainted with this behaviour of his; that if I was to speak severely of him in return for it, it should not be in such a dirty way; that I should rather tell him himself fairly of his faults, and allow his good qualities; and that it should be something in the following manner.
Page 195 - Thy reliques, Rowe, to this fair urn we trust, And sacred, place by Dryden's awful dust; Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies, , To which thy tomb shall guide inquiring eyes. . '• ' Peace to thy gentle shade, and endless rest! Blest in thy genius, in thy love too blest ! One grateful woman to thy fame supplies What a whole thankless land to his denies.
Page 74 - The numerous and violent claps of the whig party on the one side of the theatre, were echoed back by the tories on the other; while the author sweated behind the scenes with concern to find their applause proceeding more from the hand than the head.