The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: The DunciadJ. and P. Knapton, 1752 |
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Página iv
... dunce . But every one was curi- ous to read what could be faid to prove Mr. POPE one , and was ready to pay fomething for fuch a difcovery : A ftratagem , which would they fairly own , it might not only reconcile them to me , but fcreen ...
... dunce . But every one was curi- ous to read what could be faid to prove Mr. POPE one , and was ready to pay fomething for fuch a difcovery : A ftratagem , which would they fairly own , it might not only reconcile them to me , but fcreen ...
Página xliii
... Dunce the firft ; and furely from what we hear of him , not unworthy to be the root of fo fpreading a tree , and fo numerous a pofterity . The poem therefore celebrating him was pro- perly and abfolutely a Dunciad ; which though now un ...
... Dunce the firft ; and furely from what we hear of him , not unworthy to be the root of fo fpreading a tree , and fo numerous a pofterity . The poem therefore celebrating him was pro- perly and abfolutely a Dunciad ; which though now un ...
Página 65
... Dunce with an e , therefore Danceiad with an e . That accurate and punctual Man of Letters , the Reftorer of Shakespear , conftantly ob- ferves the prefervation of this very Letter e , in fpelling the VOL . V. E I fing . Say you , her ...
... Dunce with an e , therefore Danceiad with an e . That accurate and punctual Man of Letters , the Reftorer of Shakespear , conftantly ob- ferves the prefervation of this very Letter e , in fpelling the VOL . V. E I fing . Say you , her ...
Página 67
... Dunce the fecond reigns like Dunce the firft ; REMARK S. to agree with those who would add yet another e to it , and call it the Dunceiade ; which being a French and foreign termi- nation , is no way proper to a word entirely English ...
... Dunce the fecond reigns like Dunce the firft ; REMARK S. to agree with those who would add yet another e to it , and call it the Dunceiade ; which being a French and foreign termi- nation , is no way proper to a word entirely English ...
Página 68
... Dunce the fecond reigns like Dunce the firft . BENTL . VER . 1. The Mighty Mother , and her Son , & c . ] The Reader ought here to be cautioned , that the Mother and not the Son , is the principal Agent of this Poem : The latter of them ...
... Dunce the fecond reigns like Dunce the firft . BENTL . VER . 1. The Mighty Mother , and her Son , & c . ] The Reader ought here to be cautioned , that the Mother and not the Son , is the principal Agent of this Poem : The latter of them ...
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Página 253 - We only furnish what he cannot use, Or wed to what he must divorce, a muse: Full in the midst of Euclid dip at once, And petrify a genius to a dunce: Or set on metaphysic ground to prance, Show all his paces, not a step advance.
Página 224 - The moon-struck prophet felt the madding hour : Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out order, and extinguish light, Of dull and venal a new world to mould, And bring Saturnian days of lead and gold.
Página 302 - ... what contemptible men were the authors of it. He was not without hopes that, by manifesting the...
Página 78 - There motley Images her fancy strike, Figures ill pair'd, and Similies unlike. She sees a Mob of Metaphors advance, Pleas'd with the madness of the mazy dance: How Tragedy and Comedy embrace; How Farce and Epic get a jumbled race; How Time himself stands still at her command, Realms shift their place, and Ocean turns to land.
Página 239 - As Fancy opens the quick springs of Sense, We ply the Memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit, and double chain on chain; Confine the thought, to exercise the breath; And keep them in the pale of Words till death.
Página 215 - The person who acted Polly, till then obscure, became all at Once the favourite of the town; her pictures were engraved, and...
Página 249 - The critic eye, that microscope of wit, Sees hairs and pores, examines bit by bit : How parts relate to parts or they to whole ; The body's harmony, the beaming soul, Are things which Kuster, Burman, Wasse shall see, When man's whole frame is obvious to a flea.
Página 216 - Furthermore, it drove out of England (for that season) the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for ten years.
Página 153 - 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 215 - 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.