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... party occupied all minds . At no period since the great Civil War had the spirit of faction so possessed the English nation . Everything else merged in it . The violence of the parliamentary struggle engendered a violence of language ...
... party occupied all minds . At no period since the great Civil War had the spirit of faction so possessed the English nation . Everything else merged in it . The violence of the parliamentary struggle engendered a violence of language ...
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... party rage , and introduce more humanity than has of late prevailed in conversation . ' It was sufficient to belong to the Court party to earn a stinging couplet from Pope's pen . His praise was equally blind , for it is bestowed on all ...
... party rage , and introduce more humanity than has of late prevailed in conversation . ' It was sufficient to belong to the Court party to earn a stinging couplet from Pope's pen . His praise was equally blind , for it is bestowed on all ...
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... and desertion . Pope had identified himself with the Tory party . During the plenitude of Sir Robert Walpole's power , which almost exactly 6 corresponds with the composition of these Satires ( 1732-1738 ) INTRODUCTORY . 9.
... and desertion . Pope had identified himself with the Tory party . During the plenitude of Sir Robert Walpole's power , which almost exactly 6 corresponds with the composition of these Satires ( 1732-1738 ) INTRODUCTORY . 9.
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... party , and greatly to their relief withdrew in 1735 to his retirement in Touraine . The tone of the friends had become that of a party whose game was up . Pope ' despairs of his country , ' and in his letters to Lord March- mont , a ...
... party , and greatly to their relief withdrew in 1735 to his retirement in Touraine . The tone of the friends had become that of a party whose game was up . Pope ' despairs of his country , ' and in his letters to Lord March- mont , a ...
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... party passion . He truly believes that the Whigs are ruining the country , that the Court is a nest of sycophants , that the majority in the House of Peers is corrupt , and the City is made up of ' thieves , super- cargos , sharpers ...
... party passion . He truly believes that the Whigs are ruining the country , that the Court is a nest of sycophants , that the majority in the House of Peers is corrupt , and the City is made up of ' thieves , super- cargos , sharpers ...
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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.