An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1782 - Verse satire, English |
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... sons to those of things , we shall find this poem equally excellent . The temple of Mars , is fituated with propriety , in a country defolate and joyless ; all around it , The landscape was a foreft wide and bare ; Where neither beaft ...
... sons to those of things , we shall find this poem equally excellent . The temple of Mars , is fituated with propriety , in a country defolate and joyless ; all around it , The landscape was a foreft wide and bare ; Where neither beaft ...
Page 144
... son embryon , Il faut chez Du Vernay voir la diffection * . 14. No thought advances , but her eddy brain Whisks it about , and down it goes again .. Full fixty years the world has been her trades The wifeft fool much time has ever made ...
... son embryon , Il faut chez Du Vernay voir la diffection * . 14. No thought advances , but her eddy brain Whisks it about , and down it goes again .. Full fixty years the world has been her trades The wifeft fool much time has ever made ...
Page 225
... son one shoulder had too high , Such Ovid's nofe , and , Sir , you have an eye ‡ . . THE smallest personal particularities are interesting in eminent men . We liften with pleasure to Montaigne , when he fami- liarly tells us , " My face ...
... son one shoulder had too high , Such Ovid's nofe , and , Sir , you have an eye ‡ . . THE smallest personal particularities are interesting in eminent men . We liften with pleasure to Montaigne , when he fami- liarly tells us , " My face ...
Page 242
... SON + , which has been fo much com- " It is ufual with the fmaller party to make up in intereft what they want in number ; and this is the cafe with the little fenate of Cato . We have , it seems , a Great Turk in poetry , who can never ...
... SON + , which has been fo much com- " It is ufual with the fmaller party to make up in intereft what they want in number ; and this is the cafe with the little fenate of Cato . We have , it seems , a Great Turk in poetry , who can never ...
Page 255
... sons of fame , Condemn'd the charm of ages to the fame † . 25. Let Sporus tremble - What ! that thing of silk , Sporus , that mere white curd of afs's milk ? Satire or fenfe , alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ...
... sons of fame , Condemn'd the charm of ages to the fame † . 25. Let Sporus tremble - What ! that thing of silk , Sporus , that mere white curd of afs's milk ? Satire or fenfe , alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ...
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