Two lectures, on the poetry of Pope, and on his own travels in America, by the earl of Carlisle, Volume 1 |
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... mention of his translation of Homer , though the fact of its being a translation , and its length , would both rather put it beyond the limits of my present criticism . Dr. Johnson calls his Iliad , and I am inclined to believe with no ...
... mention of his translation of Homer , though the fact of its being a translation , and its length , would both rather put it beyond the limits of my present criticism . Dr. Johnson calls his Iliad , and I am inclined to believe with no ...
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... mention this as a profitable example , but in order to show the degree in which this translation was calculated to gain the mastery over the youthful mind . All the poems of Pope , to which I have already referred , belong to that ...
... mention this as a profitable example , but in order to show the degree in which this translation was calculated to gain the mastery over the youthful mind . All the poems of Pope , to which I have already referred , belong to that ...
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... mention what I consider to be another of his felicities almost of an opposite character , though I have perceived with pleasure since I noted this topic , that I have been anticipated in the same line of remark by the late Mr. Hazlitt ...
... mention what I consider to be another of his felicities almost of an opposite character , though I have perceived with pleasure since I noted this topic , that I have been anticipated in the same line of remark by the late Mr. Hazlitt ...
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... mentions Sir Robert Walpole , to whom his friends , more than himself , were virulently opposed , how respectful and ... mention of the long satiric poem of the Dunciad , upon which Pope evidently bestowed much care and labour ; but it ...
... mentions Sir Robert Walpole , to whom his friends , more than himself , were virulently opposed , how respectful and ... mention of the long satiric poem of the Dunciad , upon which Pope evidently bestowed much care and labour ; but it ...
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... mention with pleasure anything which redounds to their credit , that I am intending to present you with their full and complete portraits . ment . It was on the 21st day of October , upon a bright crisp morning , that the Columbia steam ...
... mention with pleasure anything which redounds to their credit , that I am intending to present you with their full and complete portraits . ment . It was on the 21st day of October , upon a bright crisp morning , that the Columbia steam ...
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Page 9 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 14 - Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 9 - Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest; The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 9 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Page 19 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood! The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line...
Page 17 - Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, (More silent far) where kings and poets lie ; Where MURRAY (long enough his country's pride) Shall be no more than TULLY, or than HYDE ! Rack'd with sciatics, martyr'd with the stone, Will any mortal let himself alone?
Page 19 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart ; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. To Him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all.
Page 15 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Page 9 - True wit is nature to advantage dressed, — What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Page 18 - Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent: Spreads undivided, operates unspent...