The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: The DunciadJ. and P. Knapton, 1752 |
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... still have been filent , if either I had feen any inclination in my friend to be ferious with fuck accusers , or if they had only meddled with his Writings ; fince whoever publishes , puts himself on his trial by his Country . But when ...
... still have been filent , if either I had feen any inclination in my friend to be ferious with fuck accusers , or if they had only meddled with his Writings ; fince whoever publishes , puts himself on his trial by his Country . But when ...
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... still more involuntary ; nay , as much so as perfonal Deformity . But even this will not help them : Deformity becomes an object of Ridicule when a man fets up for being hand- fome ; and fo muft Dulnefs when he fets up for a Wit . They ...
... still more involuntary ; nay , as much so as perfonal Deformity . But even this will not help them : Deformity becomes an object of Ridicule when a man fets up for being hand- fome ; and fo muft Dulnefs when he fets up for a Wit . They ...
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... still more convinced of their truth and foli- " dity . And here give me leave to mention what " Monfieur Boileau has fo well enlarged upon in the " preface to his works : That wit and fine writing doth " not confift fo much in advancing ...
... still more convinced of their truth and foli- " dity . And here give me leave to mention what " Monfieur Boileau has fo well enlarged upon in the " preface to his works : That wit and fine writing doth " not confift fo much in advancing ...
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... still with fiercer rage purfues , " Obfcures the virtue , and defames the Muse . " A foul like thine , in pain , in grief , refign'd , " Views with juft fcorn the malice of mankind . The witty and moral fatirift Dr. EDWARD YOUNG ...
... still with fiercer rage purfues , " Obfcures the virtue , and defames the Muse . " A foul like thine , in pain , in grief , refign'd , " Views with juft fcorn the malice of mankind . The witty and moral fatirift Dr. EDWARD YOUNG ...
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... Still IMITATIONS . Say , great Patricians ! fince your felves infpire Thefe wondrous works Dii coeptis ( nam vos mutaftis & illas . ) REMARK S. Ovid . Met . i . THE DUNCIAD . ] It is an inconvenience , to which Writers of reputation are ...
... Still IMITATIONS . Say , great Patricians ! fince your felves infpire Thefe wondrous works Dii coeptis ( nam vos mutaftis & illas . ) REMARK S. Ovid . Met . i . THE DUNCIAD . ] It is an inconvenience , to which Writers of reputation are ...
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Página 253 - We only furnish what he cannot use, Or wed to what he must divorce, a muse: Full in the midst of Euclid dip at once, And petrify a genius to a dunce: Or set on metaphysic ground to prance, Show all his paces, not a step advance.
Página 224 - The moon-struck prophet felt the madding hour : Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out order, and extinguish light, Of dull and venal a new world to mould, And bring Saturnian days of lead and gold.
Página 302 - ... what contemptible men were the authors of it. He was not without hopes that, by manifesting the...
Página 78 - There motley Images her fancy strike, Figures ill pair'd, and Similies unlike. She sees a Mob of Metaphors advance, Pleas'd with the madness of the mazy dance: How Tragedy and Comedy embrace; How Farce and Epic get a jumbled race; How Time himself stands still at her command, Realms shift their place, and Ocean turns to land.
Página 239 - As Fancy opens the quick springs of Sense, We ply the Memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit, and double chain on chain; Confine the thought, to exercise the breath; And keep them in the pale of Words till death.
Página 215 - The person who acted Polly, till then obscure, became all at Once the favourite of the town; her pictures were engraved, and...
Página 249 - The critic eye, that microscope of wit, Sees hairs and pores, examines bit by bit : How parts relate to parts or they to whole ; The body's harmony, the beaming soul, Are things which Kuster, Burman, Wasse shall see, When man's whole frame is obvious to a flea.
Página 216 - Furthermore, it drove out of England (for that season) the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for ten years.
Página 153 - Ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood.
Página 215 - This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixtythree days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time ; at Bath and Bristol fifty, &c.