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... character of the great ministerial leader , Sir Robert Walpole , resolute , clear - sighted , and with a thorough knowledge of the world , but coarse , vulgar , and without tincture of letters or culture , is typical of the men by whom ...
... character of the great ministerial leader , Sir Robert Walpole , resolute , clear - sighted , and with a thorough knowledge of the world , but coarse , vulgar , and without tincture of letters or culture , is typical of the men by whom ...
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... ( Characters ) was equally true , he was the most irritable of the genus irritabile . ' You could never tell what would affront him , and he brooded over particular affronts , scheming revenge in verse . In such cases he was capable of ...
... ( Characters ) was equally true , he was the most irritable of the genus irritabile . ' You could never tell what would affront him , and he brooded over particular affronts , scheming revenge in verse . In such cases he was capable of ...
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... character of moral censor . But in his satirical touches he is in earnest , and in his most severe couplets most so ... characters or of his contemporaries , are most perverse . His allusions to historical personages in the Satires and ...
... character of moral censor . But in his satirical touches he is in earnest , and in his most severe couplets most so ... characters or of his contemporaries , are most perverse . His allusions to historical personages in the Satires and ...
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... character and powers will be sure to underrate those of others . His error in judging himself having its root in vanity , his estimate of others will be governed by the interest his vanity may have in exalting or in humbling them . Pope ...
... character and powers will be sure to underrate those of others . His error in judging himself having its root in vanity , his estimate of others will be governed by the interest his vanity may have in exalting or in humbling them . Pope ...
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... characters without disturbing the tone of sentiment to which he appeals . But in drawing character , only the whole truth is the real truth . This even applies to fictitious character as well as to copies of actual life . Porson says ...
... characters without disturbing the tone of sentiment to which he appeals . But in drawing character , only the whole truth is the real truth . This even applies to fictitious character as well as to copies of actual life . Porson says ...
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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.