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 51847 |
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... chapter . Sir Robert Walpole earnestly inquired if a chapter could not be held in the Tower , that the Bishop might receive the benefit of this fine . A chapter was accordingly there held , and the Bishop received a thousand pounds for ...
... chapter . Sir Robert Walpole earnestly inquired if a chapter could not be held in the Tower , that the Bishop might receive the benefit of this fine . A chapter was accordingly there held , and the Bishop received a thousand pounds for ...
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... chapter by way of Episode . It was from a part of these memoirs that Swift took his first hints for Gulliver . There ... chapters that are by his hand . After his death the papers came into the possession of Pope , who undoubtedly ...
... chapter by way of Episode . It was from a part of these memoirs that Swift took his first hints for Gulliver . There ... chapters that are by his hand . After his death the papers came into the possession of Pope , who undoubtedly ...
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... begins to think any one chapter dull , the style will be immediately changed in the next . This marks the time when the introduction was written . MEMOIRS OF MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS . BOOK I. CHAP . I. 150 INTRODUCTION .
... begins to think any one chapter dull , the style will be immediately changed in the next . This marks the time when the introduction was written . MEMOIRS OF MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS . BOOK I. CHAP . I. 150 INTRODUCTION .
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... CHAPTER II . THE SPEECH OF CORNELIUS OVER HIS SON , AT THE HOUR OF HIS BIRTH . No sooner was the cry of the infant heard , but the old gentleman rushed into the room , and snatching it in his arms examined every limb with attention . He ...
... CHAPTER II . THE SPEECH OF CORNELIUS OVER HIS SON , AT THE HOUR OF HIS BIRTH . No sooner was the cry of the infant heard , but the old gentleman rushed into the room , and snatching it in his arms examined every limb with attention . He ...
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... a strong hysteric fit ; which might have proved dangerous , if Cornelius had not been pushed out of the room by the united force of the women . CHAPTER III.3 SHOWING WHAT BEFEL THE DOCTOR'S SON AND HIS MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS . 159.
... a strong hysteric fit ; which might have proved dangerous , if Cornelius had not been pushed out of the room by the united force of the women . CHAPTER III.3 SHOWING WHAT BEFEL THE DOCTOR'S SON AND HIS MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS . 159.
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Página 249 - Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy!
Página 64 - Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me ; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone.
Página 355 - Methinks already I your tears survey, Already hear the horrid things they say, Already see you a degraded toast, And all your honour in a whisper lost! How shall I then your helpless fame defend? 'Twill then be infamy to seem your friend! And shall this prize, th...
Página 366 - 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...
Página 79 - VE often wish'd that I had clear For life, six hundred pounds a year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end, A terrace-walk, and half a rood Of land, set out to plant a wood.
Página 357 - The fluttering fan be Zephyretta's care ; The drops to thee, Brillante, we consign ; And, Momentilla, let the watch be thine ; Do thou, Crispissa, tend her favourite Lock ; Ariel himself shall be the guard of Shock. " To fifty chosen sylphs, of special note, We trust th...
Página 471 - It furnishes art with all her materials, and without it judgment itself can at best but 'steal wisely' : for art is only like a prudent steward that lives on managing the riches of nature. Whatever praises may be given to works of judgment, there is not even a single beauty in them to which the invention...
Página 57 - If we think to regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. No music must be heard, no song be set or sung, but what is grave and Doric. There must be licensing dancers, that no gesture, motion or deportment be taught our youth but what by their allowance shall be thought honest; for such Plato was provided of. It will ask more than the work of twenty licensers to examine all the lutes, the violins and the...
Página 449 - Homer himself drew not his art so immediately from the fountains of nature, it proceeded through ^Egyptian strainers and channels and came to him not without some tincture of the learning, or some cast of the models, of those before him.
Página 247 - To which thou may'st add, To see her beauties no man needs to stoop, She has the whole horizon for her hoop. 4. The ANTITHESIS, or SEE-SAW,! whereby contraries and oppositions are balanced in such a way, as to cause a reader to remain suspended between them, to his exceeding delight and recreation.