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... Dunciad , and in his Treatise on the Bathos , was the last man in the world entitled to render them . The partnership in poetry which produced the Odyssey was not a great literary success , and most readers will prefer the version of ...
... Dunciad , and in his Treatise on the Bathos , was the last man in the world entitled to render them . The partnership in poetry which produced the Odyssey was not a great literary success , and most readers will prefer the version of ...
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... Dunciad . The first three books of this famous satire were published in 1728. It is generally regarded as Pope's masterpiece , but the accuracy of such an estimate is doubtful . So heavily weighted is the poem with notes , prefaces ...
... Dunciad . The first three books of this famous satire were published in 1728. It is generally regarded as Pope's masterpiece , but the accuracy of such an estimate is doubtful . So heavily weighted is the poem with notes , prefaces ...
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... Dunciad being thus fairly established , the book- sellers were allowed to proceed with the sale in regular course . ' , 1 The Dunciad owes its merit to the literary felicities with which its pages abound . The theme is a mean one . Pope ...
... Dunciad being thus fairly established , the book- sellers were allowed to proceed with the sale in regular course . ' , 1 The Dunciad owes its merit to the literary felicities with which its pages abound . The theme is a mean one . Pope ...
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... Dunciad are tainted with the imagery which , to quote the strong phrase of Mr. Churton Collins , often makes Swift as offensive as a polecat , 1 and there is no part of it which can be read with unmixed pleasure , if we except the noble ...
... Dunciad are tainted with the imagery which , to quote the strong phrase of Mr. Churton Collins , often makes Swift as offensive as a polecat , 1 and there is no part of it which can be read with unmixed pleasure , if we except the noble ...
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... Dunciad showed Pope where his main strength as a poet lay . That the writers he had attacked , in many instances without provocation , should resent the ungrateful notoriety conferred upon them was inevitable . In self - defence , and ...
... Dunciad showed Pope where his main strength as a poet lay . That the writers he had attacked , in many instances without provocation , should resent the ungrateful notoriety conferred upon them was inevitable . In self - defence , and ...
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Page 91 - Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Page 110 - I hear a voice, you cannot hear, Which says, I must not stay ; I see a hand, you cannot see, Which beckons me away.
Page 82 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man...
Page 82 - Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity! A beam ethereal, sullied and absorpt! Though sullied and dishonoured, still divine! Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory ! a frail child of dust: Helpless immortal! insect infinite! A worm! a god! I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost.
Page 117 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome — at an inn.
Page 89 - As home he goes beneath the joyous moon. Ye that keep watch in heaven, as earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, Ye constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre. Great source of day! best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam His praise.
Page 148 - She was a very beautiful woman, of a noble spirit, and there was a dignity in her grief amidst all the wildness of her transport which, methought, struck me with an instinct of sorrow, that, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since.
Page 32 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride...
Page 34 - What though no friends in sable weeds appear, Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year, And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances, and the public show?
Page 51 - See Mystery to Mathematics fly! In vain, they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.