The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks,, Volume 4C. and J. Rivington; T. Cadell; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green; J. Cuthell; J. Nunn; ... [and 25 others in London]; and Deighton and Sons, Cambridge; and A. Black, and J. Fairbairn, Edinburgh., 1824 |
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... Virgil of the most perfect epic performance . And those parts of Homer which have been published al- ready by Mr. Pope , give us reason to think that the Iliad will appear in English with as little dis- advantage to that immortal poem ...
... Virgil of the most perfect epic performance . And those parts of Homer which have been published al- ready by Mr. Pope , give us reason to think that the Iliad will appear in English with as little dis- advantage to that immortal poem ...
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... Virgil than in any other work , excepts this of our author only . " † The author of a Letter to Mr. CIBBER says , " Pope was so good a versifier [ once ] that his predecessor Mr. Dryden , and his cotemporary Mr. Prior excepted , the ...
... Virgil than in any other work , excepts this of our author only . " † The author of a Letter to Mr. CIBBER says , " Pope was so good a versifier [ once ] that his predecessor Mr. Dryden , and his cotemporary Mr. Prior excepted , the ...
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... Virgil finished his Georgics ; and Sir Richard Blackmore , at the like age composing his Arthurs , declared the same to be the very Acme and pitch of life for epic poesy ; though since he hath altered it to sixty , the year in which he ...
... Virgil finished his Georgics ; and Sir Richard Blackmore , at the like age composing his Arthurs , declared the same to be the very Acme and pitch of life for epic poesy ; though since he hath altered it to sixty , the year in which he ...
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... Virgil , like modern un- dertakers , who first build their house , and then seek out for a tenant , had contrived the story of a war and a wandering , before they once thought either of Achilles or Æneas . We shall therefore set our ...
... Virgil , like modern un- dertakers , who first build their house , and then seek out for a tenant , had contrived the story of a war and a wandering , before they once thought either of Achilles or Æneas . We shall therefore set our ...
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... Virgil , and Milton , as a satiric piece , to make , as it were , a complete Tetralogy , as the Cyclops of Eu- ripides was added to serious tragedies . This conceit is extremely strained and tortured . Warton . It is astonishing that Dr ...
... Virgil , and Milton , as a satiric piece , to make , as it were , a complete Tetralogy , as the Cyclops of Eu- ripides was added to serious tragedies . This conceit is extremely strained and tortured . Warton . It is astonishing that Dr ...
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Página 12 - A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ ; Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The generous pleasure to be charm'd with wit.
Página 337 - Night primaeval and of Chaos old ! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus
Página 341 - Religion blushing veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word; Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall, And universal Darkness buries all.
Página 294 - The critic Eye, that microscope of Wit, Sees hairs and pores, examines bit by bit...
Página 299 - Show all his paces, not a step advance. With the same cement, ever sure to bind, We bring to one dead level every mind. Then take him to develop, if you can, And hew the block off, and get out the man. 270 But wherefore waste I words? I see advance Whore, pupil, and laced governor from France. Walker! our hat' nor more he deigned to say, But, stern as Ajax
Página 245 - Immortal Rich! how calm he sits at ease 'Mid snows of paper, and fierce hail of pease; And proud his Mistress' orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Página 245 - I turn my ravish'd eyes, gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, poetic fields encompass me around, and still I seem to tread on classic ground; for here the Muse so oft her harp has strung, that not a mountain rears its head unsung, renown'd in verse each shady thicket grows, and every stream in heavenly numbers flows.
Página 38 - The observations follow one another like those in Horace's Art of Poetry, without that methodical regularity which would have been requisite in a prose author.
Página 185 - Here strip, my children! here at once leap in, Here prove who best can dash through thick and thin, And who the most in love of dirt excel, Or dark dexterity of groping well.
Página 303 - To lands of singing, or of dancing slaves, Love-whispering woods, and lute-resounding waves. But chief her shrine where naked Venus keeps, And Cupids ride the lion of the deeps; Where, eased of fleets, the Adriatic main Wafts the smooth eunuch and enamour'd swain.