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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... observations , by William Ayre , Esq . , in 2 vols . octavo . This work was published for the author in 1745 , the year after the death of Pope , and is inscribed to his surviving friends , Lords Bolingbroke , Burlington , Marchmont ...
... observations , by William Ayre , Esq . , in 2 vols . octavo . This work was published for the author in 1745 , the year after the death of Pope , and is inscribed to his surviving friends , Lords Bolingbroke , Burlington , Marchmont ...
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... observation , which it is impossible not to make , after having run through this series of poetical lives , that where there were such shining talents , there should be so little virtue . These luminaries of our country seem to have ...
... observation , which it is impossible not to make , after having run through this series of poetical lives , that where there were such shining talents , there should be so little virtue . These luminaries of our country seem to have ...
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... observed , that the work of Johnson , like those before adverted to , is in a great part occupied in criticisms on the poetry of Pope , in which it is scarcely necessary to observe , that amongst much unjust and illiberal censure ...
... observed , that the work of Johnson , like those before adverted to , is in a great part occupied in criticisms on the poetry of Pope , in which it is scarcely necessary to observe , that amongst much unjust and illiberal censure ...
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... observe it would have been difficult for the learned editor to repel . It now only remains to advert to the Life of Pope by Mr. Bowles , prefixed to his edition of the works of that author , published in 1806. That we are not to expect ...
... observe it would have been difficult for the learned editor to repel . It now only remains to advert to the Life of Pope by Mr. Bowles , prefixed to his edition of the works of that author , published in 1806. That we are not to expect ...
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... observations on the poetical character of Pope , in his Specimens of the British Poets , and Lord Byron's Letter to **** ****** on the Rev. W. L. Bowles's Strictures on the Life and Writings of Pope . A very able defence of Pope may ...
... observations on the poetical character of Pope , in his Specimens of the British Poets , and Lord Byron's Letter to **** ****** on the Rev. W. L. Bowles's Strictures on the Life and Writings of Pope . A very able defence of Pope may ...
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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.