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... 1. 353. the pictur'd shape . Warton : Hay , in his Essay on Deformity , has remarked that Pope was so hurt by the caricature of his figure , as to rank it among the most atrocious injuries he received from PROLOGUE . 117.
... 1. 353. the pictur'd shape . Warton : Hay , in his Essay on Deformity , has remarked that Pope was so hurt by the caricature of his figure , as to rank it among the most atrocious injuries he received from PROLOGUE . 117.
Page 129
... Warton to mean the Duke of Marlborough . five per cent . By statute of 12 Anne the rate of interest had been reduced to five per cent . , though in the public funds it continued to exceed seven per cent . A member stated in the House of ...
... Warton to mean the Duke of Marlborough . five per cent . By statute of 12 Anne the rate of interest had been reduced to five per cent . , though in the public funds it continued to exceed seven per cent . A member stated in the House of ...
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... Warton has preserved the tradition that Pope's allusion was to the entrance to Lord Peterborough's lawn at Bevis Mount , near Southampton . Pope had paid his last visit to Bevis Mount in August 1735 . 1. 9. ev'n in Brunswick's cause ...
... Warton has preserved the tradition that Pope's allusion was to the entrance to Lord Peterborough's lawn at Bevis Mount , near Southampton . Pope had paid his last visit to Bevis Mount in August 1735 . 1. 9. ev'n in Brunswick's cause ...
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... Warton compares Anti- pater ( Anthol . Græca , 2. 103. Jacobs ) : Η τακεραῖς λεύσσουσα κοραῖς μαλα- κώτερον ὕπνου . 1. 153 . On each enervate string they taught the note To pant . The first Operas brought on the stage in England were ...
... Warton compares Anti- pater ( Anthol . Græca , 2. 103. Jacobs ) : Η τακεραῖς λεύσσουσα κοραῖς μαλα- κώτερον ὕπνου . 1. 153 . On each enervate string they taught the note To pant . The first Operas brought on the stage in England were ...
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... Warton remarks that the satire should have ended with this line . The frigid antithesis in line 327 is not in Pope's manner , and being the last line leaves behind a false impression of the whole composition . EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRES ...
... Warton remarks that the satire should have ended with this line . The frigid antithesis in line 327 is not in Pope's manner , and being the last line leaves behind a false impression of the whole composition . EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRES ...
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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.