The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 5J.F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... play was acted , Jan. 27 , 1726-7 , that " These verses , which he had before given him leave to insert in it , would be known for his , some copies being got abroad . He desires , nevertheless , that since the lines had been read in ...
... play was acted , Jan. 27 , 1726-7 , that " These verses , which he had before given him leave to insert in it , would be known for his , some copies being got abroad . He desires , nevertheless , that since the lines had been read in ...
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... play of the Lady Jane Grey ; " but it afterward proved to be Mr. Rowe's . We are assured by another , " He wrote a pamphlet called Dr. Andrew Tripe " ; " which proved to be one Dr. Wagstaff's . Mr. THEOBALD assures , in Mist of the 27th ...
... play of the Lady Jane Grey ; " but it afterward proved to be Mr. Rowe's . We are assured by another , " He wrote a pamphlet called Dr. Andrew Tripe " ; " which proved to be one Dr. Wagstaff's . Mr. THEOBALD assures , in Mist of the 27th ...
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... Play abused , was an infallible proof the play was his own ; the said Mr. Cibber thinking it impossible for a man to be much concerned for any but himself . " Now let any man judge ( saith he ) by this concern , who was the true mother ...
... Play abused , was an infallible proof the play was his own ; the said Mr. Cibber thinking it impossible for a man to be much concerned for any but himself . " Now let any man judge ( saith he ) by this concern , who was the true mother ...
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... Play : REMARKS . that ends well , I am no great Nebuchadnezzar , I have not much skill in grass . Ibid . They are for the flowery way that leads to the broad gate and the great fire , Matt . vii . 13. In Much ado about nothing , All ...
... Play : REMARKS . that ends well , I am no great Nebuchadnezzar , I have not much skill in grass . Ibid . They are for the flowery way that leads to the broad gate and the great fire , Matt . vii . 13. In Much ado about nothing , All ...
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... Play Blank'd his bold visage , and a thin Third day : VARIATIONS . Var . Tibbald ] Yet this Tibbald , contemptible as he is here re- presented to be , was assisted in his edition of Shakspeare by Warburton , published in six volumes ...
... Play Blank'd his bold visage , and a thin Third day : VARIATIONS . Var . Tibbald ] Yet this Tibbald , contemptible as he is here re- presented to be , was assisted in his edition of Shakspeare by Warburton , published in six volumes ...
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Página 291 - 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 24 - Boileau has so very well enlarged upon in the preface to his works, that wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn.
Página 369 - How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue ! How sweet the periods, neither said, nor sung! Still break the benches, Henley ! with thy strain, While Sherlock, Hare, and Gibson preach in vain. Oh, great restorer of the good old stage, Preacher at once, and zany of thy age ! Oh, worthy thou of Egypt's wise abodes, A decent priest, where monkeys were the gods...
Página 368 - Pegasus's neck ; Down, down they larum, with impetuous whirl, The Pindars, and the Miltons of a Curl. " Silence, ye Wolves ! while Ralph to Cynthia howls, And makes night hideous — Answer him, ye Owls ! 166 " Sense, speech, and measure, living tongues and dead, Let all give way, and Morris may be read.
Página 246 - 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 288 - In vain, in vain ! The all-composing hour Resistless falls ; the Muse obeys the power. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne...
Página 248 - Some gentle JAMES, to bless the land again; To stick the Doctor's Chair into the Throne, Give law to Words, or war with Words alone, Senates and Courts with Greek and Latin rule, And turn the Council to a Grammar School! For sure, if Dulness sees a grateful Day, 'Tis in the shade of Arbitrary Sway.
Página 252 - Thy mighty scholiast, whose unwearied pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains. Turn what they will to verse, their toil is vain, Critics like me shall make it prose again.
Página 336 - Here she beholds the chaos dark and deep, Where nameless somethings in their causes sleep, 'Till genial Jacob, or a warm third day, Call forth each mass, a poem, or a play; How hints, like spawn, scarce quick in embryo lie, How new-born nonsense first is taught to cry ; Maggots half-form'd in rhyme exactly meet, And learn to crawl upon poetic feet.
Página 235 - But soon, ah soon, Rebellion will commence, If Music meanly borrows aid from Sense. Strong in new Arms, lo! Giant HANDEL stands, Like bold Briareus, with a hundred hands; To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he comes, And Jove's own Thunders follow Mars's Drums. Arrest him, Empress ; or you sleep no more — ' She heard, and drove him to th