An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...W.J. and J. Richardson, 1806 - 416 pages |
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... Satires , my good friend , are more frequently perused , and quoted , than L'Alle- gro and Il Penseroso of Milton . Had you written only these Satires , you would , indeed , have gained the title of a man of wit , and a A 2 man man of ...
... Satires , my good friend , are more frequently perused , and quoted , than L'Alle- gro and Il Penseroso of Milton . Had you written only these Satires , you would , indeed , have gained the title of a man of wit , and a A 2 man man of ...
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... satire . The name of Malherbe is respectable , as he was the first reformer of the French poesy , and the first who gave his countrymen any idea of a le- gitimate ode ; though his own pieces have hardly any thing but harmony to ...
... satire . The name of Malherbe is respectable , as he was the first reformer of the French poesy , and the first who gave his countrymen any idea of a le- gitimate ode ; though his own pieces have hardly any thing but harmony to ...
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... satire so called , were such as our poet remembered from his own ALCANDER . So sensible of its own errors and imperfections is a mind truly great . QUINTILIAN , whose knowledge of human na- ture was consummate , has observed , that no ...
... satire so called , were such as our poet remembered from his own ALCANDER . So sensible of its own errors and imperfections is a mind truly great . QUINTILIAN , whose knowledge of human na- ture was consummate , has observed , that no ...
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... satires , such as we now have them . Moliere was full forty when he wrote the first of those comedies on which his reputation is founded . But to excel in this spe- cies cies of composition , it was not sufficient for Mo-. * Sect . x . 2 ...
... satires , such as we now have them . Moliere was full forty when he wrote the first of those comedies on which his reputation is founded . But to excel in this spe- cies cies of composition , it was not sufficient for Mo-. * Sect . x . 2 ...
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... satire , and is new ; as is. great horse , was his expression ; and preferred his postscript to the Odyssey ; and often talked of the excellence of Dryden's prose style . * Ver . 38 . † Atterbury and Bolingbroke had the very same opinion ...
... satire , and is new ; as is. great horse , was his expression ; and preferred his postscript to the Odyssey ; and often talked of the excellence of Dryden's prose style . * Ver . 38 . † Atterbury and Bolingbroke had the very same opinion ...
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Page 7 - Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me, I fondly dream ! Had ye been there...
Page 134 - Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky, Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way, Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes.
Page 145 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 231 - Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine, (The victor cried) the glorious prize is mine ! While fish in streams, or birds delight in air, Or in a coach and six the British fair, As long as Atalantis shall be read...
Page 313 - But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green ; Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Page 219 - water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still on earth to roam. The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air.
Page 148 - Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek, We write in sand, our language grows, And like the tide our work o'erflows.
Page 220 - Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face ; Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes. The busy sylphs surround their darling care, These set the head, and those divide the hair, Some fold the sleeve, whilst others plait the gown ; And Betty's prais'd for labours not her own. CANTO II. NOT with more glories, in th...
Page 223 - On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 130 - From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which without passing thro' the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains.