The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: The DunciadJ. and P. Knapton, 1752 |
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... guilt of the accufers ; I mean by Authors without names ; then I thought , fince the danger was common to all , the concern ought to be fo ; and that it was an act of justice to detect the Authors , not only on A 3 TO THE PUBLISHER .
... guilt of the accufers ; I mean by Authors without names ; then I thought , fince the danger was common to all , the concern ought to be fo ; and that it was an act of justice to detect the Authors , not only on A 3 TO THE PUBLISHER .
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... common cry of the Poetafters of the town , and their fautors , that it is an ill - natured thing to expofe the Pretenders to wit and poetry . VOL . V. B The Judges and Magistrates may with full as good reafon ( xvii )
... common cry of the Poetafters of the town , and their fautors , that it is an ill - natured thing to expofe the Pretenders to wit and poetry . VOL . V. B The Judges and Magistrates may with full as good reafon ( xvii )
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... common ; -inftead of majesty , we have " fomething that is very mean ; inftead of gravity , " fomething that is very boyish ; and instead of per- 66 66 fpicuity and lucid order , we have but too often obfcu- rity and confufion . " And ...
... common ; -inftead of majesty , we have " fomething that is very mean ; inftead of gravity , " fomething that is very boyish ; and instead of per- 66 66 fpicuity and lucid order , we have but too often obfcu- rity and confufion . " And ...
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... common place . Horace has even in his Art of Poetry thrown out feveral things which " plainly fhew , he thought an Art of Poetry was of no ufe , even while he was writing one . " 66 66 To all which great authorities , we can only oppose ...
... common place . Horace has even in his Art of Poetry thrown out feveral things which " plainly fhew , he thought an Art of Poetry was of no ufe , even while he was writing one . " 66 66 To all which great authorities , we can only oppose ...
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... common men could " not lift from the ground ; juft fo , one fingle perfon " has performed in this tranflation , what I once de- fpaired to have feen done by the force of several ma- fterly hands . " Indeed the fame gentleman appears to ...
... common men could " not lift from the ground ; juft fo , one fingle perfon " has performed in this tranflation , what I once de- fpaired to have feen done by the force of several ma- fterly hands . " Indeed the fame gentleman appears to ...
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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.