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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... hath admirably versified , as he expresses it , two or three Satires of Dr. Donne . He intended to have given two or three of Bishop Hall's likewise , whose force and classical elegance he much admired ; but as Hall was a better ...
... hath admirably versified , as he expresses it , two or three Satires of Dr. Donne . He intended to have given two or three of Bishop Hall's likewise , whose force and classical elegance he much admired ; but as Hall was a better ...
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... Hath made a lawyer ; which ( alas ) of late ; But scarce a poet : jollier of this state , Than are new - beneficed ministers , he throws , Like nets or lime - twigs , wheresoe'er he goes His title of barrister on every wench , And wooes ...
... Hath made a lawyer ; which ( alas ) of late ; But scarce a poet : jollier of this state , Than are new - beneficed ministers , he throws , Like nets or lime - twigs , wheresoe'er he goes His title of barrister on every wench , And wooes ...
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... hath been Poyson'd with love to see or to be seen , I had no suit there , nor new suit to show , Yet went to court ; but as Glare which did go To Mass in jest , catched , was fain to disburse Two hundred markes , which is the statute's ...
... hath been Poyson'd with love to see or to be seen , I had no suit there , nor new suit to show , Yet went to court ; but as Glare which did go To Mass in jest , catched , was fain to disburse Two hundred markes , which is the statute's ...
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... hath travail'd , and faith , speaks all tongues , And only knoweth what to all States belongs , Made of the accents , and best phrase of all these , He speaks one language . If strange meats displease , Art can deceive , or hunger force ...
... hath travail'd , and faith , speaks all tongues , And only knoweth what to all States belongs , Made of the accents , and best phrase of all these , He speaks one language . If strange meats displease , Art can deceive , or hunger force ...
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... hath lately been , " That Republican Prelate , Bishop Hoadly . " The late excellent Bishop of London , Dr. Lowth , thought very differently of him , and calls him , in his admirable Life of Wickham , The great advocate of civil and ...
... hath lately been , " That Republican Prelate , Bishop Hoadly . " The late excellent Bishop of London , Dr. Lowth , thought very differently of him , and calls him , in his admirable Life of Wickham , The great advocate of civil and ...
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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.