Life of PopeMacmillan, 1899 - 200 pages |
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... expected to dictate . He supposes himself to be asked two questions ; whether the Essay will succeed , and who or what is the author . Its success he admits to be secured by the false opinions then prevalent ; the author he concludes to ...
... expected to dictate . He supposes himself to be asked two questions ; whether the Essay will succeed , and who or what is the author . Its success he admits to be secured by the false opinions then prevalent ; the author he concludes to ...
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... expected like other guardians that she should make at least an equal match ; and such he proposed to her , but found it rejected in favour of a young gentleman of inferior condition . Having discovered the correspondence between the two ...
... expected like other guardians that she should make at least an equal match ; and such he proposed to her , but found it rejected in favour of a young gentleman of inferior condition . Having discovered the correspondence between the two ...
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... expected , as each faction then boasted its literary zeal , that the 30 great men , who on other occasions practised all the violence of opposition , would emulate each other in their encourage- ment of a poet who had delighted all ...
... expected , as each faction then boasted its literary zeal , that the 30 great men , who on other occasions practised all the violence of opposition , would emulate each other in their encourage- ment of a poet who had delighted all ...
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... expected from a writer , to whom , as , Homer says , nothing but rumour has reached , and who has no personal knowledge . X Pope doubtless approached Addison , when the reputation of their wit first brought them together , with the ...
... expected from a writer , to whom , as , Homer says , nothing but rumour has reached , and who has no personal knowledge . X Pope doubtless approached Addison , when the reputation of their wit first brought them together , with the ...
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... expected from the South Sea , when the contagion of avarice tainted every mind , and even poets panted after wealth , Pope was seized with the universal passion , and ventured some of his money . The stock rose in its price ; and he for ...
... expected from the South Sea , when the contagion of avarice tainted every mind , and even poets panted after wealth , Pope was seized with the universal passion , and ventured some of his money . The stock rose in its price ; and he for ...
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Page 90 - If the flights of Dryden, therefore, are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
Page 29 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Page 184 - Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind : But more...
Page 162 - There dwelt a Citizen of sober fame, A plain good man, and Balaam was his name ; Religious, punctual, frugal, and so forth; His word would pass for more than he was worth.
Page 89 - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope.
Page 173 - It has been confidently related, with many embellishments, that Johnson one day knocked Osborne down in his shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. " Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But it was not in his shop : it was in my own chamber.
Page 117 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
Page 184 - Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last; But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way, Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!
Page 181 - He seems to have been, at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described with the addition of such embellishments as may be supplied by historical retrospection or incidental meditation.
Page 147 - There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place: There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul: And he, whose lightning pierced the' Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines; Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as he conquer'd Spain.