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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... moral evidence , Fleet - ditch and the High Priori road , Curl and Clarke . To ridicule our petulant libertines , and affected minute philosophers , was doubtless a most laudable in- tention ; but speaking of the Dunciad as a work of ...
... moral evidence , Fleet - ditch and the High Priori road , Curl and Clarke . To ridicule our petulant libertines , and affected minute philosophers , was doubtless a most laudable in- tention ; but speaking of the Dunciad as a work of ...
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... moral and literary , against a promiscuous herd of as- sailants , various in rank , in abilities , and in the motives and de- grees of their animosity , could , by any effort of genius , be so ar- ranged , united , and bound together ...
... moral and literary , against a promiscuous herd of as- sailants , various in rank , in abilities , and in the motives and de- grees of their animosity , could , by any effort of genius , be so ar- ranged , united , and bound together ...
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... moral duty , to repress some inveterate abuse , to defend the real interests of truth and virtue , to expose some ignorant pretender , or to vindicate the cause of true learning against all its adversaries , whether mitred or cas ...
... moral duty , to repress some inveterate abuse , to defend the real interests of truth and virtue , to expose some ignorant pretender , or to vindicate the cause of true learning against all its adversaries , whether mitred or cas ...
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... as Pope . " To these have been added other remarks , tending to doubt , or deny , the moral justice of the castigation administered by the author to his adversaries , and accusing him , frequently in gross and illiberal terms 14.
... as Pope . " To these have been added other remarks , tending to doubt , or deny , the moral justice of the castigation administered by the author to his adversaries , and accusing him , frequently in gross and illiberal terms 14.
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... moral character was attacked , and in a manner from which neither truth nor virtue can secure the most innocent ; in a manner , which though it annihilates the credit of the accusation with the just and impartial , yet aggravates very ...
... moral character was attacked , and in a manner from which neither truth nor virtue can secure the most innocent ; in a manner , which though it annihilates the credit of the accusation with the just and impartial , yet aggravates very ...
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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.