The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1J.F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 - 436 páginas |
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... admirable a work as the Essay on Man . " " If you would read , " says Metastasio , " this poem without scruple , I recommend to you the excellent translation in terza rima , lately published , 1770 , by Count Gius . Ferrero di Lauriano ...
... admirable a work as the Essay on Man . " " If you would read , " says Metastasio , " this poem without scruple , I recommend to you the excellent translation in terza rima , lately published , 1770 , by Count Gius . Ferrero di Lauriano ...
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... ( whose prose style , by the way , is admirable ) , Temple's Essays , Dryden's Essay on Dra- matic Poetry , and his various Prefaces and Prologues , Rhymer's Both must alike from Heav'n derive their light , These ESSAY ON CRITICISM . 229.
... ( whose prose style , by the way , is admirable ) , Temple's Essays , Dryden's Essay on Dra- matic Poetry , and his various Prefaces and Prologues , Rhymer's Both must alike from Heav'n derive their light , These ESSAY ON CRITICISM . 229.
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... admirable poet to be read , and his excellences to be observed . But , for the merit of the work itself , if there be any thing just in the plan , it was because Aristotle and Bossu had taken the same route before him . And as to his ...
... admirable poet to be read , and his excellences to be observed . But , for the merit of the work itself , if there be any thing just in the plan , it was because Aristotle and Bossu had taken the same route before him . And as to his ...
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... admirable in its kind as the Iliad . It has become a fashionable attempt of late , to censure and decry an obedience to the rules laid down by ancient critics ; while one party , loudly and frequently exclaim , -Vos exemplaria Græca ...
... admirable in its kind as the Iliad . It has become a fashionable attempt of late , to censure and decry an obedience to the rules laid down by ancient critics ; while one party , loudly and frequently exclaim , -Vos exemplaria Græca ...
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... admirable test , viz . When we perceive that it gives us back the image of our mind . When it does that , we may be sure it plays no tricks with us : for this image is the creature of the Judgment ; and whenever Wit corresponds with ...
... admirable test , viz . When we perceive that it gives us back the image of our mind . When it does that , we may be sure it plays no tricks with us : for this image is the creature of the Judgment ; and whenever Wit corresponds with ...
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Página 144 - race thy spacious courts adorn; See future sons, and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks on ev'ry side arise, Demanding life, impatient for the skies! 90 See barb'rous 3 nations at thy gates attend, Walk in thy light, and in thy temple bend; See thy bright altars throng'd with prostrate kings, And heap'd with products of 4
Página 329 - I omit that exquisite song, in which his favourite and peculiar pastime is expressed. " Where the bee sucks, there suck I, In a cowslip's bell I lie ; There I couch where owls do cry, On the bat's back I do fly, After
Página 203 - sweet recreation : And innocence, which most does please With meditation. Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie. Scaliger, Voltaire, and Grotius, were but eighteen years old when they produced, the two first their
Página 143 - ut omnia seeclo!" The reader needs only to turn to the passages of Isaiah, here cited. P. See, a long * race thy spacious courts adorn; See future sons, and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks on ev'ry side arise, Demanding life, impatient for the skies! 90 See barb'rous
Página 203 - Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years, slide soft away, In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day, Sound sleep by night; study and ease, Together
Página 257 - Others for Language all their care express 305 And value books, as women men, for dress : Their praise is still,—The Style is excellent; The Sense, they humbly take upon content. Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found : 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on ev'ry place
Página 225 - first good tragedy, was played. Corneille was more than thirty Unerring NATURE, still divinely bright, 70 One clear, unchang'd, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test, of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides;
Página 322 - cuspide cuspis," &c. Stat. W. Twas then, Belinda, if report say true, Thy eyes first open'd on a Billet-doux; Wounds, Charms, and Ardours, were no sooner read, But all the vision vanish'd from thy head. 120 And now, unveil'd, the Toilet stands display'd, Each silver Vase in mystic order laid. NOTES. Ver. 121. And now,
Página 137 - baccare, tellus, Mixtaque ridenti colocasia fundet acantho Ipsa tibi blandos fundent cunabula flores." See lofty Lebanon 6 his head advance, 25 See nodding forests on the mountains dance: See spicy clouds from lowly Saron rise, And Carmel's flow'ry top perfumes the skies! Hark! a glad voice the lonely desert cheers; Prepare the
Página 259 - vanity display What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; 330 And but so mimic ancient wits at best, As apes our grandsires, in their doublets drest, In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old