The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe, Volume 21847 |
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... images drawn from what is beautiful or sublime in the works of nature , are more beautiful and sublime than images drawn from the works of art ; " whence he contends , that as Pope was conversant with the latter , rather than the former ...
... images drawn from what is beautiful or sublime in the works of nature , are more beautiful and sublime than images drawn from the works of art ; " whence he contends , that as Pope was conversant with the latter , rather than the former ...
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... image intended to be communicated require only a simple statement , it is always given in the most appropriate and fewest words . No unnecessary similes are introduced to illustrate a proposition which is sufficiently clear already ...
... image intended to be communicated require only a simple statement , it is always given in the most appropriate and fewest words . No unnecessary similes are introduced to illustrate a proposition which is sufficiently clear already ...
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... images : Such as by Nature to the Ancients shown , 5 10 15 20 Fancy improves , and judgment makes your own : For great men's fashions to be follow'd are , Altho ' disgraceful ' tis their clothes to wear . 25 Some in a polish'd style ...
... images : Such as by Nature to the Ancients shown , 5 10 15 20 Fancy improves , and judgment makes your own : For great men's fashions to be follow'd are , Altho ' disgraceful ' tis their clothes to wear . 25 Some in a polish'd style ...
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... image starts again to life . How long , untun'd , had Homer's sacred lyre Jarr'd grating discord , all extinct his fire ! 30 This you beheld ; and taught by heav'n to sing , Call'd the loud music from the sounding string . Now wak'd ...
... image starts again to life . How long , untun'd , had Homer's sacred lyre Jarr'd grating discord , all extinct his fire ! 30 This you beheld ; and taught by heav'n to sing , Call'd the loud music from the sounding string . Now wak'd ...
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... image of perfection , giv'n T ' inspire mankind , itself deriv'd from heav'n . O ever worthy , ever crown'd with praise ; Blest in thy life , and blest in all thy lays ! Add that the Sisters ev'ry thought refine ; Or ev'n thy life be ...
... image of perfection , giv'n T ' inspire mankind , itself deriv'd from heav'n . O ever worthy , ever crown'd with praise ; Blest in thy life , and blest in all thy lays ! Add that the Sisters ev'ry thought refine ; Or ev'n thy life be ...
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Page 40 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread. Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Page 341 - Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Page 318 - To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. Some few in that, but numbers err in this, Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss; A fool might once himself alone expose, Now one in verse makes many more in prose. 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 346 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 410 - At every word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. Meanwhile, declining from the noon of day, The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray ; The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang, that jurymen may dine; The merchant from th* Exchange returns in peace, And the long labours of the toilet cease.
Page 87 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Page 402 - Now awful beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms, Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face : Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes.
Page 83 - All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee : they shall come up with acceptance on Mine altar, and I will glorify the house of My glory.
Page 344 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvary'd chimes, With sure Returns of still expected rhymes; Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...
Page 325 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same...