Life of PopeMacmillan, 1899 - 200 pages |
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... things are made familiar ; familiar things are mau new ; the purpose is to laugh at the little unguarded follies of the female sex ; Dennis says it lacks a moral , and that the machinery is superfluous . viii . Eloise to Abelard : Happy ...
... things are made familiar ; familiar things are mau new ; the purpose is to laugh at the little unguarded follies of the female sex ; Dennis says it lacks a moral , and that the machinery is superfluous . viii . Eloise to Abelard : Happy ...
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... thing , and gave him no encouragement to retouch it . This has been too hastily considered as an instance of Addison's jealousy ; for , as he could not guess the conduct of the new design , or the possibilities of pleasure JOHNSON'S ...
... thing , and gave him no encouragement to retouch it . This has been too hastily considered as an instance of Addison's jealousy ; for , as he could not guess the conduct of the new design , or the possibilities of pleasure JOHNSON'S ...
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... things know , and all things can resound ! " Relate what armies sought the Trojan land , What nations follow'd , and what chiefs command ; 30 10 20 30 ( For doubtful Fame distracts inankind below JOHNSON'S LIFE OF POPE . 27.
... things know , and all things can resound ! " Relate what armies sought the Trojan land , What nations follow'd , and what chiefs command ; 30 10 20 30 ( For doubtful Fame distracts inankind below JOHNSON'S LIFE OF POPE . 27.
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... thing about Wycherley , in which he had abused both me and my relations very grossly . Lord Warwick himself told me one day , that it was in vain for me to endeavour to be well with Mr. Addison ; that his jealous temper would never ...
... thing about Wycherley , in which he had abused both me and my relations very grossly . Lord Warwick himself told me one day , that it was in vain for me to endeavour to be well with Mr. Addison ; that his jealous temper would never ...
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... things wrong , and left many things undone ; but let him not be defrauded of his due praise . He was the first that knew , at least the first that told , by what helps the text might be improved . If he inspected the early editions ...
... things wrong , and left many things undone ; but let him not be defrauded of his due praise . He was the first that knew , at least the first that told , by what helps the text might be improved . If he inspected the early editions ...
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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.