POPE, SELECTED POEMS; THE ESSAY ON CRITICISM; THE MORAL ESSAYS; THE DUNCIAD1876 |
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... speak of him as dead . The time of his death must have been known to all Pope's friends , or most of them ; is it likely then that he would - out of mere vanity , as Mr. Elwin thinks- 2 have falsely told various persons that the poem ...
... speak of him as dead . The time of his death must have been known to all Pope's friends , or most of them ; is it likely then that he would - out of mere vanity , as Mr. Elwin thinks- 2 have falsely told various persons that the poem ...
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... speak , prescribes such wider application . And the poet will hence , perhaps , conclude himself justified in using some degree of mystification , ludification - almost prevarication - in repelling a charge which he thinks ought not to ...
... speak , prescribes such wider application . And the poet will hence , perhaps , conclude himself justified in using some degree of mystification , ludification - almost prevarication - in repelling a charge which he thinks ought not to ...
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... speak , And stares tremendous with a threat'ning eye , Like some fierce tyrant in old tapestry . Essay , 1. 584 . The picture in these lines of Dennis's habitual look and gesture is said to have been ludicrously exact . Nevertheless ...
... speak , And stares tremendous with a threat'ning eye , Like some fierce tyrant in old tapestry . Essay , 1. 584 . The picture in these lines of Dennis's habitual look and gesture is said to have been ludicrously exact . Nevertheless ...
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... speak of a rupture between the two as the result of the younger poet's ' freedom of speech , and most of them lay the blame on Pope . Bowles says , that Wycherley bore the corrections at first with great temper , but that when Pope at ...
... speak of a rupture between the two as the result of the younger poet's ' freedom of speech , and most of them lay the blame on Pope . Bowles says , that Wycherley bore the corrections at first with great temper , but that when Pope at ...
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... speak of the presentation of the book to the King and Queen in 1729 , as if it had been then first published with his sanction . Afterwards in this paper , and on many other occasions , he talked of ' false ' and ' surreptitious ...
... speak of the presentation of the book to the King and Queen in 1729 , as if it had been then first published with his sanction . Afterwards in this paper , and on many other occasions , he talked of ' false ' and ' surreptitious ...
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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,