The Life of Alexander Pope: Esq. Compiled from Original Manuscripts; with a Critical Essay on His Writings and Genius. By Owen Ruffhead, EsqC. Bathurst, H. Woodfall, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, W. Johnston, [and 8 others in London], 1769 - Electronic books - 578 pages |
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Page 109
... Satire and play of imagination exhibited in these lines , they afford , as the editor observes , a beautiful fiction on the platonic theology , of the continuance of the paffions in another state , when the mind , before its leaving ...
... Satire and play of imagination exhibited in these lines , they afford , as the editor observes , a beautiful fiction on the platonic theology , of the continuance of the paffions in another state , when the mind , before its leaving ...
Page 112
... jectures which the fylph makes refpecting the impending ill ; where ferious and light mif- chances , are artfully and pleasantly contrafted , and and convey an oblique Satire on the female eftimate of 112 THE LIFE OF.
... jectures which the fylph makes refpecting the impending ill ; where ferious and light mif- chances , are artfully and pleasantly contrafted , and and convey an oblique Satire on the female eftimate of 112 THE LIFE OF.
Page 113
... Satire on the female eftimate of the difafters which furround them . " Whether the nymph fhall break Diana's law , " Or fome frail China jar receive a flaw ; " Or ftain her honour , or her new brocade ; Forget her pray'rs , or mifs a ...
... Satire on the female eftimate of the difafters which furround them . " Whether the nymph fhall break Diana's law , " Or fome frail China jar receive a flaw ; " Or ftain her honour , or her new brocade ; Forget her pray'rs , or mifs a ...
Page 228
... Satire never cuts so keenly , as when humanity gives it an edge † . Our author having , in the next place , traced the fource of moral evil , which proceeds from the abuse of man's free will , he then fhews , by way of analogy , that it ...
... Satire never cuts so keenly , as when humanity gives it an edge † . Our author having , in the next place , traced the fource of moral evil , which proceeds from the abuse of man's free will , he then fhews , by way of analogy , that it ...
Page 278
... Satire on Women , in his Univerfal Paffion : though it is , upon the whole , greatly inferior to Mr. POPE'S in point of verfification , order , wit , fentiment , ease , and penetration into nature * . In the paffages alluded to ...
... Satire on Women , in his Univerfal Paffion : though it is , upon the whole , greatly inferior to Mr. POPE'S in point of verfification , order , wit , fentiment , ease , and penetration into nature * . In the paffages alluded to ...
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