The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: The DunciadJ. and P. Knapton, 1752 |
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... himself would have omitted it , had he ap- proved of the first appearance of this Poem . Such Notes as have occurred to me I herewith fend you : You will oblige me by inferting them amongst those which are , or will be , tranfmited to ...
... himself would have omitted it , had he ap- proved of the first appearance of this Poem . Such Notes as have occurred to me I herewith fend you : You will oblige me by inferting them amongst those which are , or will be , tranfmited to ...
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... himself on his trial by his Country . But when his Moral character was attacked , and in a manner from which neither truth nor virtue can fecure the most innocent ; in a manner , which , though it annihi- lates the credit of the ...
... himself on his trial by his Country . But when his Moral character was attacked , and in a manner from which neither truth nor virtue can fecure the most innocent ; in a manner , which , though it annihi- lates the credit of the ...
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... himself . any I am no Author , and confequently not to be fufpected either of jealoufy or refentment against of the Men , of whom fcarce one is known to me by fight ; and as for their Writings , I have fought them ( on this one occafion ) ...
... himself . any I am no Author , and confequently not to be fufpected either of jealoufy or refentment against of the Men , of whom fcarce one is known to me by fight ; and as for their Writings , I have fought them ( on this one occafion ) ...
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... himself ? I question not but fuch authors are poor , and heartily wish the objection were removed by any honeft livelihood . But Poverty is here the accident , not the subject : He who defcribes Malice and Villany to be pale and meagre ...
... himself ? I question not but fuch authors are poor , and heartily wish the objection were removed by any honeft livelihood . But Poverty is here the accident , not the subject : He who defcribes Malice and Villany to be pale and meagre ...
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... himself than by any good judge befide , " That his own have found " too much fuccefs with the public . " But as it cannot confift with his modefty to claim this as a Justice , it lies not on him , but entirely on the pub- lic , to ...
... himself than by any good judge befide , " That his own have found " too much fuccefs with the public . " But as it cannot confift with his modefty to claim this as a Justice , it lies not on him , but entirely on the pub- lic , to ...
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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.