The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton, Volume 1A. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, C. Bathurst, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, J. Richardson, B. Law, S. Crowder, T. Longman, T. Field, and T. Caslon, 1760 - English literature |
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... follow- ing confiderations : 1. It was impoffible to give a full and exact idea of the Art of Poetical Criticism , without confi- dering at the fame time the Art of Poetry ; fo far as Poetry is an Art . These therefore being closely ...
... follow- ing confiderations : 1. It was impoffible to give a full and exact idea of the Art of Poetical Criticism , without confi- dering at the fame time the Art of Poetry ; fo far as Poetry is an Art . These therefore being closely ...
Page 152
... follow one another like thofe in Horace's Art of Poetry , without that methodical regularity which would have been requifite in a profe writer . Spec . N ° 235. I do not fee how method can hurt any one grace of Poetry ; or what ...
... follow one another like thofe in Horace's Art of Poetry , without that methodical regularity which would have been requifite in a profe writer . Spec . N ° 235. I do not fee how method can hurt any one grace of Poetry ; or what ...
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... follow Nature , and your judgment frame By her just standard , which is ftill the fame : COMMENTARY . VER . 68. First follow Nature , etc. ] The Critic obferving the directions before given , and now finding himself qualified for his ...
... follow Nature , and your judgment frame By her just standard , which is ftill the fame : COMMENTARY . VER . 68. First follow Nature , etc. ] The Critic obferving the directions before given , and now finding himself qualified for his ...
Page 162
... ] Having thus , in his fir precept , to follow Nature , fettled Criticifm on its true founda- tion ; he proceeds to fhew , what affistance may be had from Nature , like Liberty , is but restrain'd By the 162 ESSAY ON CRITICISM .
... ] Having thus , in his fir precept , to follow Nature , fettled Criticifm on its true founda- tion ; he proceeds to fhew , what affistance may be had from Nature , like Liberty , is but restrain'd By the 162 ESSAY ON CRITICISM .
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... follow that of the ancient Critics , as they furnish us with what the Critics , who only give us general rules , cannot fupply : while the study of a great original Poet , in " His Fable , Subject , fcope in ev'ry page ; " Religion ...
... follow that of the ancient Critics , as they furnish us with what the Critics , who only give us general rules , cannot fupply : while the study of a great original Poet , in " His Fable , Subject , fcope in ev'ry page ; " Religion ...
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Page 243 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Page 146 - 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 261 - For, that sad moment, when the sylphs withdrew^ And Ariel weeping from Belinda flew, Umbriel, a dusky, melancholy sprite, As ever sullied the fair face of light, Down to the central earth, his proper scene, Repair'd to search the gloomy cave of Spleen.
Page 253 - The rebel Knave, who dares his prince engage, Proves the just victim of his royal rage.
Page 186 - Some to Conceit alone their taste confine, And glitt'ring thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; 290 Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets like painters, thus, unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 And hide with ornaments their want of art.
Page 245 - Their fluid bodies half dissolv'd in light. Loose to the wind their airy garments flew, Thin glitt'ring textures of the filmy dew, Dipt in the richest tincture of the skies, Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes, While ev'ry beam new transient colours flings, Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings.
Page 236 - Soft yielding minds to Water glide away, And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental Tea. The graver Prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of mischief still on Earth to roam. The light Coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of Air.
Page 254 - He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts the sky...
Page 98 - The swain in barren deserts with surprise Sees lilies spring, and sudden verdure rise ; And starts, amidst the thirsty wilds to hear New falls of water murmuring in his ear. On rifted rocks, the dragon's late abodes, The green reed trembles, and the bulrush nods.
Page 262 - Here living tea-pots stand, one arm held out, One bent ; the handle this, and that the spout...