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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... honour to his age and coun- try , and that attack sanctioned under the sacred duty of an editor , would be suffered to pass without animad- version . Accordingly the insults on departed genius have been felt by the living , and the ...
... honour to his age and coun- try , and that attack sanctioned under the sacred duty of an editor , would be suffered to pass without animad- version . Accordingly the insults on departed genius have been felt by the living , and the ...
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... honour's cause , Whilst yet in Britain honour had applause ) Each parent sprung " . And in a note on the same Epistle we are informed that Mr. Pope's father was of a gentleman's family in Oxfordshire , the head of which was the Earl of ...
... honour's cause , Whilst yet in Britain honour had applause ) Each parent sprung " . And in a note on the same Epistle we are informed that Mr. Pope's father was of a gentleman's family in Oxfordshire , the head of which was the Earl of ...
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... honour on that family than he could possibly have derived from it . Pope lived at a time when the advantages of birth were perhaps somewhat more highly appreciated than they are at present ; the consequence of which was , that amongst ...
... honour on that family than he could possibly have derived from it . Pope lived at a time when the advantages of birth were perhaps somewhat more highly appreciated than they are at present ; the consequence of which was , that amongst ...
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... honour , in one instance , to resemble you , for he was a younger brother . He did not think it indeed a happiness ... Honour to Caroline , Princess of Wales , and a woman of great beauty and un- common accomplishments . She lived till ...
... honour , in one instance , to resemble you , for he was a younger brother . He did not think it indeed a happiness ... Honour to Caroline , Princess of Wales , and a woman of great beauty and un- common accomplishments . She lived till ...
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... honoured with his in- timacy , had seen several pieces of a still earlier date . He may therefore justly be enumerated amongst those , in whom the display of early powers has been the indi- cation of superior genius , as observable in ...
... honoured with his in- timacy , had seen several pieces of a still earlier date . He may therefore justly be enumerated amongst those , in whom the display of early powers has been the indi- cation of superior genius , as observable in ...
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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.