POPE, SELECTED POEMS; THE ESSAY ON CRITICISM; THE MORAL ESSAYS; THE DUNCIAD1876 |
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... John Dennis about the same time , in The Impartiai Critic , analysed with considerable skill the grounds of Waller's poetic reputation , and compared the exigencies of the Greek and English theatres . Nor were metrical precedents ...
... John Dennis about the same time , in The Impartiai Critic , analysed with considerable skill the grounds of Waller's poetic reputation , and compared the exigencies of the Greek and English theatres . Nor were metrical precedents ...
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... John Dennis was a professional critic at the time when Pope's Pastorals were pub- lished , in 1709. He seems to have criticized them unfavourably , probably in conversation . For it must be , as Mr. Elwin rightly gathers , to some such ...
... John Dennis was a professional critic at the time when Pope's Pastorals were pub- lished , in 1709. He seems to have criticized them unfavourably , probably in conversation . For it must be , as Mr. Elwin rightly gathers , to some such ...
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... John ? That I can do when all I have is gone ! ' Resolve me , reason , which of these is worse , Want with a full , or with an empty purse ? Thy life more wretched , Cutler ! was confess'd ; Arise , and tell me , was thy death more ...
... John ? That I can do when all I have is gone ! ' Resolve me , reason , which of these is worse , Want with a full , or with an empty purse ? Thy life more wretched , Cutler ! was confess'd ; Arise , and tell me , was thy death more ...
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... John in silence modestly expires : No merit now the dear Nonjuror claims , Molière's old stubble in a moment flames . Tears gush'd again , as from pale Priam's eyes , When the last blaze sent Ilion to the skies . 240 250 Roused by the ...
... John in silence modestly expires : No merit now the dear Nonjuror claims , Molière's old stubble in a moment flames . Tears gush'd again , as from pale Priam's eyes , When the last blaze sent Ilion to the skies . 240 250 Roused by the ...
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... John : So Proteus , hunted in a nobler shape , Became , when seized , a puppy or an ape . To him the goddess : ' Son ! thy grief lay down , And turn this whole illusion on the town . Be thine , my stationer ! this magic gift ; Cook ...
... John : So Proteus , hunted in a nobler shape , Became , when seized , a puppy or an ape . To him the goddess : ' Son ! thy grief lay down , And turn this whole illusion on the town . Be thine , my stationer ! this magic gift ; Cook ...
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Page 115 - In vain, they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. 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.
Page 4 - whispers through the trees." If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threatened (not in vain) with " sleep." Then at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Page 1 - 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 gen'rous pleasure to be charm'd with wit.
Page 149 - Excise. A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Page 4 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic, if too new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 28 - Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare! Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air; Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Page 115 - 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
Page 127 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
Page xl - OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Page 45 - Or in proud falls magnificently lost, But clear and artless, pouring through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows? Whose seats the weary traveller repose ? Who taught that Heav'n-directed spire to rise? " The Man of Ross,