The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseC. Bathurst, 1787 |
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... seem to eat , And cry'd , " I vow you're mighty neat . " But Lord , my Friend , this favage Scene ! " For God's fake , come , and live with Men : " Confider , Mice , like Men , must die , " Both fmall and great , both you and I : " Then ...
... seem to eat , And cry'd , " I vow you're mighty neat . " But Lord , my Friend , this favage Scene ! " For God's fake , come , and live with Men : " Confider , Mice , like Men , must die , " Both fmall and great , both you and I : " Then ...
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... seem , Trifles themfelves are elegant in him . Sure to charm all was his peculiar fate , Who without flatt'ry pleas'd the fair and great ; Still with efteem no lefs convers'd than read ; With wit well - natur'd , and with books well ...
... seem , Trifles themfelves are elegant in him . Sure to charm all was his peculiar fate , Who without flatt'ry pleas'd the fair and great ; Still with efteem no lefs convers'd than read ; With wit well - natur'd , and with books well ...
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... seem- ed to be mightily relieved by it.The rolling of the corpfe down stairs made fuch a noife that it awaked the whole houfe . The maid fhrieked , the landlady cried out , Thieves ! but the landlord , in his fhirt as he was , taking a ...
... seem- ed to be mightily relieved by it.The rolling of the corpfe down stairs made fuch a noife that it awaked the whole houfe . The maid fhrieked , the landlady cried out , Thieves ! but the landlord , in his fhirt as he was , taking a ...
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... seems to me an undoubt ed phyfical Maxim , That Poetry is a natural or morbid Secretion from the Brain . As I would not suddenly stop a cold in the head , or dry up my neighbour's iffue , I would as little hinder him from neceffary ...
... seems to me an undoubt ed phyfical Maxim , That Poetry is a natural or morbid Secretion from the Brain . As I would not suddenly stop a cold in the head , or dry up my neighbour's iffue , I would as little hinder him from neceffary ...
Página 154
... seem borrowed from the Thought of that Master of a Show in Smithfield , who writ in large let- ters , over the picture of his elephant , " This is the greatest Elephant in the world , except " Himself . " ' However , our next inftance ...
... seem borrowed from the Thought of that Master of a Show in Smithfield , who writ in large let- ters , over the picture of his elephant , " This is the greatest Elephant in the world , except " Himself . " ' However , our next inftance ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
againſt alfo almoſt alſo ancient animals Bathos becauſe befides bleft caft caufe cauſe compofed Cornelius courſe Crambe Criticks defcribe defcription defign defire diſcover Eclogues expreffion exprefs faid fame fatire feems feveral fhall fhort fhould fimplicity fince fingle firft firſt fome fometimes fpirit Friend ftill fubject fuch genius greateſt hath himſelf Homer honour Horfes Horſe houſe Iliad inftance itſelf juft Juftice Julius Pollux juſt Lady laft laſt learned leaſt lefs Lord mafter manner Martin meaſure modern moft moſt muſt myſelf nature neceffary never obferved occafion Paffion Paftoral perfon pleaſe pleaſure Poem Poet poetry praiſe prefent promiſe publick purpoſe quoth raiſe Reaſon rife Scriblerus ſeems ſeveral Shakeſpear ſhall ſhe ſmall ſome ſpeak ſuch Terpander thee thefe themſelves Theocritus theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought tion tranflated univerfal uſed verfe verſe Virgil whofe whole whoſe words writers
Passagens conhecidas
Página 278 - When we read Homer, we ought to reflect that we are reading the...
Página 214 - Jerusalem with iniquity: the heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, "Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.
Página 154 - Cuzzona. * fineft fineft thread. There are Amplifiers who can extend half a dozen thin thoughts over a whole Folio...
Página 8 - How think you of our friend the Dean? I wonder what some people mean; My lord and he are grown so great, Always together tete-d-tete. What ! they admire him for his jokes — See but the fortune of some folks...
Página 291 - That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me; of whom it is hard to say whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing to his generosity or his example...
Página 280 - Homer, and that of his work ; but when they come to assign the causes of the great reputation of the Iliad, they found it upon the ignorance of his times and the prejudice of...
Página 298 - Players are just such judges of what is right, as tailors are of what is graceful. And in this view it will be but fair to allow, that most of our author's faults are less to be ascribed to his wrong judgment as a poet, than to his right judgment as a player.
Página 187 - Here therefore, in the name of all our Brethren, let me return our sincere and humble Thanks to the most August Mr.
Página 52 - Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
Página 281 - ... enchantment. Homer not only appears the inventor of poetry, but excels all the inventors of other arts in this, that he has swallowed up the honour of those who succeeded him.