The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: The DunciadJ. and P. Knapton, 1752 |
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... Variation ! We are told in 66 MIST'S JOURNAL , June 8 . " That this tranflation of the Iliad was not in all re- fpects conformable to the fine taste of his friend Mr. " Addifon ; infomuch that he employed a younger muse , " in an ...
... Variation ! We are told in 66 MIST'S JOURNAL , June 8 . " That this tranflation of the Iliad was not in all re- fpects conformable to the fine taste of his friend Mr. " Addifon ; infomuch that he employed a younger muse , " in an ...
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... VARIATIONS . VER . 1. The Mighty Mother , & c . in the first Edd . it was thus , Books and the Man I fing , the first who brings The Smithfield Muses to the Ear of Kings . Say , great Patricians ! fince yourselves inspire Thefe wond ...
... VARIATIONS . VER . 1. The Mighty Mother , & c . in the first Edd . it was thus , Books and the Man I fing , the first who brings The Smithfield Muses to the Ear of Kings . Say , great Patricians ! fince yourselves inspire Thefe wond ...
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... VARIATIONS . After VER . 22. in the MS . Or in the graver Gown ' inftruct mankind , Or filent let thy morals tell thy mind . 20 But this was to be understood , as the Poet fays , ironicè , like the 23d Verfe . REMARK S. the uncontrolled ...
... VARIATIONS . After VER . 22. in the MS . Or in the graver Gown ' inftruct mankind , Or filent let thy morals tell thy mind . 20 But this was to be understood , as the Poet fays , ironicè , like the 23d Verfe . REMARK S. the uncontrolled ...
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... VARIATIONS , VER . 29. Clofe to those walls & c . ] In the former Edd . thus , Where wave the tatter'd enfigns of Rag - fair , A yawning ruin hangs and nods in air ; Keen hollow winds howl thro ' the bleak recefs , Emblem of Mufic caus ...
... VARIATIONS , VER . 29. Clofe to those walls & c . ] In the former Edd . thus , Where wave the tatter'd enfigns of Rag - fair , A yawning ruin hangs and nods in air ; Keen hollow winds howl thro ' the bleak recefs , Emblem of Mufic caus ...
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... VARIATIONS . Intus aquæ dulces , vivoque fedilia faxo ; Nympharum domus . May we not fay in like manner , " The Nymphs must be the waters and the ftores , or the waters and the stones must be " the houses of the Nymphs ? " Infulfe ! The ...
... VARIATIONS . Intus aquæ dulces , vivoque fedilia faxo ; Nympharum domus . May we not fay in like manner , " The Nymphs must be the waters and the ftores , or the waters and the stones must be " the houses of the Nymphs ? " Infulfe ! The ...
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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.