Pope. Satires and Epistles, ed. by M. Pattison1872 |
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... Boileau ridi- culed the fashion , and ( Art Poétique , 3. 118 ) forbade the dramatist ' peindre Caton galant , et Brutus dameret . ' The limits of translation and imitation were not distinctly defined . Oldham translated some Satires of ...
... Boileau ridi- culed the fashion , and ( Art Poétique , 3. 118 ) forbade the dramatist ' peindre Caton galant , et Brutus dameret . ' The limits of translation and imitation were not distinctly defined . Oldham translated some Satires of ...
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... Boileau , though he has substituted English authors throughout for the French examples . And in his translation of Juvenal , Dryden could not resist introducing Shadwell's name . But Rochester ( died 1680 ) , in what he calls an ...
... Boileau , though he has substituted English authors throughout for the French examples . And in his translation of Juvenal , Dryden could not resist introducing Shadwell's name . But Rochester ( died 1680 ) , in what he calls an ...
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... Boileau's , in signalising pretentious poetry , and exposing ambitious incapacity . But Pope was not content with censuring the books , he attacked their authors . Nor was this mistake enough . He fell furiously upon the trade of ...
... Boileau's , in signalising pretentious poetry , and exposing ambitious incapacity . But Pope was not content with censuring the books , he attacked their authors . Nor was this mistake enough . He fell furiously upon the trade of ...
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... Boileau . But while thus learning composition from Boileau , Pope neglected to learn what Boileau lays down as the rule of his poetry , Rien n'est beau que le vrai . ' Boileau is a classic , not only by reason of his style , but in ...
... Boileau . But while thus learning composition from Boileau , Pope neglected to learn what Boileau lays down as the rule of his poetry , Rien n'est beau que le vrai . ' Boileau is a classic , not only by reason of his style , but in ...
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... Boileau's weapons . Hence the classic durability of Boileau . His personal allusions are so many princi- ples clothed in concrete form . ( Nisard , 2. 382. ) ' Changez les noms des poëtes immolés par Boileau sous d'autres noms je vois ...
... Boileau's weapons . Hence the classic durability of Boileau . His personal allusions are so many princi- ples clothed in concrete form . ( Nisard , 2. 382. ) ' Changez les noms des poëtes immolés par Boileau sous d'autres noms je vois ...
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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 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.
Page 30 - Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? What though my name stood rubric on the walls Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Page 52 - Who counsels best ? who whispers, ' Be but great, With praise or infamy leave that to fate; Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace ; If not, by any means get wealth and place.
Page 145 - 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 27 - 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. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own?
Page 144 - 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 29 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Page 28 - Commas and points they set exactly right, And 'twere a sin to rob them of their mite.
Page 64 - Who now reads Cowley ? if he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pointed wit ; Forgot his epic, nay Pindaric art, But still I love the language of his heart.