The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: The DunciadJ. and P. Knapton, 1752 |
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... dull : And what it had no fooner faid , but they themselves were at great pains . to procure , or even purchase room in the prints , to testify under their hands to the truth of it . I should still have been filent , if either I had ...
... dull : And what it had no fooner faid , but they themselves were at great pains . to procure , or even purchase room in the prints , to testify under their hands to the truth of it . I should still have been filent , if either I had ...
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... dull , have been conftantly the topics of the most candid fatirifts , from the Codrus of JUVENAL to the Damon of BOILEAU . Having mentioned BOILEAU , the greatest Poet and moft judicious Critic of his age and country , admirable for his ...
... dull , have been conftantly the topics of the most candid fatirifts , from the Codrus of JUVENAL to the Damon of BOILEAU . Having mentioned BOILEAU , the greatest Poet and moft judicious Critic of his age and country , admirable for his ...
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... dull duty of an editor . In " this project let him lend the bookfeller his name ( for " a competent fum of money ) to promote the credit " of an exorbitant fubfcription . " Gentle reader , be pleased to caft thine eye on the Propofal ...
... dull duty of an editor . In " this project let him lend the bookfeller his name ( for " a competent fum of money ) to promote the credit " of an exorbitant fubfcription . " Gentle reader , be pleased to caft thine eye on the Propofal ...
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... dull " and unjust abuse of a person who wrote in defence of " our Religion and Conftitution , and who has been " dead many years . " This feemeth alfo moft untrue ; it being known to divers that these Memoirs were writ- ten at the feat ...
... dull " and unjust abuse of a person who wrote in defence of " our Religion and Conftitution , and who has been " dead many years . " This feemeth alfo moft untrue ; it being known to divers that these Memoirs were writ- ten at the feat ...
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... dull , and that Mr. " Pope is the author of it . " The writer of Gullive- riana is of another opinion ; and fays , " the whole , or " greatest part , of the merit of this treatife muft and " can only be afcribed to Gulliver h . " [ Here ...
... dull , and that Mr. " Pope is the author of it . " The writer of Gullive- riana is of another opinion ; and fays , " the whole , or " greatest part , of the merit of this treatife muft and " can only be afcribed to Gulliver h . " [ Here ...
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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.