The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements; together with all his notes: pr. verbatim from the octavo ed. of mr. Warburton, Volume 51754 |
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Página xliii
... mafter of an easy and elegant verfification . In all w Battle of Poets , folio , p . 15 . * Printed under the title of the Progrefs of Dulness , duodeci . mo 1728 . * " his works we find the most happy turns OF AUTHORS . xliii.
... mafter of an easy and elegant verfification . In all w Battle of Poets , folio , p . 15 . * Printed under the title of the Progrefs of Dulness , duodeci . mo 1728 . * " his works we find the most happy turns OF AUTHORS . xliii.
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... Dulness ; fo is it of the most grave and ancient kind . Homer ( faith Ariftotle ) was the firft who gave the Form , and ( faith Horace ) who adapted the Measure , to heroic poefy . But even before this , may be ra- tionally prefumed ...
... Dulness ; fo is it of the most grave and ancient kind . Homer ( faith Ariftotle ) was the firft who gave the Form , and ( faith Horace ) who adapted the Measure , to heroic poefy . But even before this , may be ra- tionally prefumed ...
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... Dulness and Poverty ; the one born with them , the other contracted by neglect of their proper talents , through felf - conceit of greater abilities . This truth he wrappeth in an Allegory ( as the conftruction of Epic poefy requir eth ) ...
... Dulness and Poverty ; the one born with them , the other contracted by neglect of their proper talents , through felf - conceit of greater abilities . This truth he wrappeth in an Allegory ( as the conftruction of Epic poefy requir eth ) ...
Página lxiv
... Dulness , the never- dying fubject of this our Poem . AT b " , This being confeffed , come we now to particulars . It is the character of true Wisdom , to feek its chief fupport and confidence within itself ; and to place that fupport ...
... Dulness , the never- dying fubject of this our Poem . AT b " , This being confeffed , come we now to particulars . It is the character of true Wisdom , to feek its chief fupport and confidence within itself ; and to place that fupport ...
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... Dulness . So weighty an atchievement muft require the particular favour and protection of the GREAT who being the natural patrons and fup- porters of Letters , as the ancient Gods were of Troy , muft first be drawn off and engaged in ...
... Dulness . So weighty an atchievement muft require the particular favour and protection of the GREAT who being the natural patrons and fup- porters of Letters , as the ancient Gods were of Troy , muft first be drawn off and engaged in ...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions ..., Volume 5 Alexander Pope Visualização integral - 1795 |
The Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions ..., Volume 5 Alexander Pope Visualização integral - 1804 |
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Página xxv - ... mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights. If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry, he will find but few precepts in it which...
Página xxiv - And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so very well enlarged upon in the preface to his works, that wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn.
Página 221 - Thence a new world to Nature's laws unknown, Breaks out refulgent, with a heav'n its own : Another Cynthia her new journey runs, And other planets circle other suns. The forests dance, the rivers upward rise 245 Whales sport in woods, and dolphins in the skies ; And last, to give the whole creation grace, Lo ! one vast egg produces human race. Joy fills his soul, joy innocent of thought ; What pow'r, he cries, what pow'r these wonders wrought?
Página 171 - Ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood.
Página 233 - Polly, till then obscure, became all at once the favourite of the town ; her pictures were engraved, and sold in great numbers ; her life written, books of letters and verses to her published, and pamphlets made even of her sayings and jests.
Página 95 - How Time himself stands still at her command, Realms shift their place, and Ocean turns to land. Here gay Description...
Página 103 - Should Dennis publish, you had stabb'd your brother, Lampoon'd your Monarch, or debauch'd your mother ; Say, what revenge on Dennis can be had ? Too dull for laughter, for reply too mad : On one so poor you cannot take the law ; On one so old your sword you scorn to draw ; Uncag'd then let the harmless monster rage, Secure in dulness, madness, want, and age.
Página 114 - And pond'rous slugs cut swiftly through the sky; As clocks to weight their nimble motion owe, The wheels above urg'd by the load below; Me Emptiness and Dulness could inspire, And were my elasticity and fire. Some díEnion stole my pen (forgive th...
Página xxiv - The Art of Criticism, which was published some months since, and is a master-piece in its kind. The observations follow one another like those in Horace's Art of Poetry, without that methodical regularity which would have been requisite in a prose author.
Página 233 - This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixtythree days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time ; at Bath and Bristol fifty, &c.