The Works of Alexander Pope: The life [by W.J. Courthope] and indexJ. Murray, 1889 |
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... taste of society , have rendered it necessary to set the character and genius of the poet in a light different from that in which they were presented by earlier critics . The really perplexing problem is how to place these new facts and ...
... taste of society , have rendered it necessary to set the character and genius of the poet in a light different from that in which they were presented by earlier critics . The really perplexing problem is how to place these new facts and ...
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... taste for personal history and antiquarianism rapidly increased . Numerous critics now began to interest themselves in studying the life of Pope from a merely personal point of view . Of these by far the most . eminent was the late Mr ...
... taste for personal history and antiquarianism rapidly increased . Numerous critics now began to interest themselves in studying the life of Pope from a merely personal point of view . Of these by far the most . eminent was the late Mr ...
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... taste , and learning I owe a debt of gratitude that I can never sufficiently acknowledge . In the Essay on Pope to which I have already alluded , Conington examined in considerable detail the meaning of the word ' correctness . " I am ...
... taste , and learning I owe a debt of gratitude that I can never sufficiently acknowledge . In the Essay on Pope to which I have already alluded , Conington examined in considerable detail the meaning of the word ' correctness . " I am ...
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Alexander Pope. man who engages in a great controversy of taste is unconsciously biassed . But whether the opinion of the poet's merits offered in the concluding chapter be well - founded or not , I may be allowed to hope that , by this ...
Alexander Pope. man who engages in a great controversy of taste is unconsciously biassed . But whether the opinion of the poet's merits offered in the concluding chapter be well - founded or not , I may be allowed to hope that , by this ...
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... Taste 13 38 CHAPTER IV . INTRODUCTION TO LONDON LIFE . 1704-1713 . Correspondence with Wycherley , Cromwell , and Caryll - Will's Coffee House - Button's - Addison - Rowe - Steele - Jervas - Completion of Windsor Forest ' -Prologue to ...
... Taste 13 38 CHAPTER IV . INTRODUCTION TO LONDON LIFE . 1704-1713 . Correspondence with Wycherley , Cromwell , and Caryll - Will's Coffee House - Button's - Addison - Rowe - Steele - Jervas - Completion of Windsor Forest ' -Prologue to ...
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Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance Addison admirable afterwards ALEXANDER POPE appears Atossa Bathurst Binfield Bolingbroke Broome cæsura character classical correspondence couplet Court Cromwell Curll Dryden Duchess of Buckingham DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH Dunciad edition enemies English Epistle Epistle to Arbuthnot Essay on Criticism favour Fenton genius give Grace hand Homer honour Iliad imagination Imitation of Horace judgment Lady M. W. Montagu language Letter from Pope lines Lintot literary Lord Bathurst Lord Hervey Lord Oxford Lordship manner Martha Blount mind mock-heroic Moral Essay never opinion passages Pastorals person poem poet poet's poetical poetry Pope to Caryll Pope's letter praise principles published Rape romantic Sappho satire says Scriblerus Club seems sense Spence Spence's Anecdotes spirit Statius style Swift taste tell thought tion translation Twickenham verse volume Walpole Warburton Whig Windsor Forest words writes to Caryll written wrote Wycherley
Pasajes populares
Página 364 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Página 370 - The principal object, then, proposed in these poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men...
Página 110 - Ixion fix'd, the wretch shall feel The giddy motion of the whirling mill, In fumes of burning chocolate shall glow, And tremble at the sea that froths below...
Página 319 - Argyll, the state's whole thunder born to wield, And shake alike the senate and the field?
Página 35 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice
Página 52 - And hence perhaps may be given some reason of that common observation, that men who have a great deal of wit, and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment or deepest reason...
Página 64 - To one small sect, and all are damn'd beside. Meanly they seek the blessing to confine. And force that sun but on a part to shine, Which not alone the southern wit sublimes, But ripens spirits in cold northern climes...
Página 50 - MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much, as his observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.
Página 378 - Though they may write in verse, though they may in a certain sense be masters of the art of versification, Dryden and Pope are not classics of our poetry, they are classics of our prose.
Página 61 - 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.