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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... given subject , how- ever unpromising and minute it may be . How then can we too highly estimate the astonishing powers of invention displayed by Pope the following poem ? by which we are instantly introduced into a new world , the ...
... given subject , how- ever unpromising and minute it may be . How then can we too highly estimate the astonishing powers of invention displayed by Pope the following poem ? by which we are instantly introduced into a new world , the ...
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... given no other instance of his inventive powers , would have placed him in the very first rank of poets , of either ancient or modern times . Here was , properly speaking , no sub- ject ; all was created by the power of fancy . The ...
... given no other instance of his inventive powers , would have placed him in the very first rank of poets , of either ancient or modern times . Here was , properly speaking , no sub- ject ; all was created by the power of fancy . The ...
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... given birth to a creation of his own , there still remained the mighty task , which could alone entitle him to the name of a poet , — to give life and effect to what he had so happily conceived , and to communicate to others what yet ...
... given birth to a creation of his own , there still remained the mighty task , which could alone entitle him to the name of a poet , — to give life and effect to what he had so happily conceived , and to communicate to others what yet ...
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... given as finally corrected and completed , in four books , together with the notes and observations , as either written or approved by the author , and which may be considered as embodied with , and forming a consti- tuent part of the ...
... given as finally corrected and completed , in four books , together with the notes and observations , as either written or approved by the author , and which may be considered as embodied with , and forming a consti- tuent part of the ...
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... given as the remarks of Pope . The reader is therefore requested to observe , that in this edition , The Notes marked with the letter P. are those published by Pope , in the octavo edition of 1729 . The subsequent Notes of Pope , as ...
... given as the remarks of Pope . The reader is therefore requested to observe , that in this edition , The Notes marked with the letter P. are those published by Pope , in the octavo edition of 1729 . The subsequent Notes of Pope , as ...
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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.