The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 5J.F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... ancient of Critics , Mr. JOHN DENNIS . " His precepts are false or trivial , or both ; his thoughts are crude and abortive , his expressions ab- Female Dunciad , p . ult . • Dunciad dessected . ' Roome , Paraphrase on the ivth of ...
... ancient of Critics , Mr. JOHN DENNIS . " His precepts are false or trivial , or both ; his thoughts are crude and abortive , his expressions ab- Female Dunciad , p . ult . • Dunciad dessected . ' Roome , Paraphrase on the ivth of ...
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... ancient court thee to his shrine , Tho ' ev'ry laurel through the dome be thine , Go to the good and just , an awful train ; Thy soul's delight . " . › Verses to Mr. P. on his translation of Homer . • Poem prefixed to his works . VOL ...
... ancient court thee to his shrine , Tho ' ev'ry laurel through the dome be thine , Go to the good and just , an awful train ; Thy soul's delight . " . › Verses to Mr. P. on his translation of Homer . • Poem prefixed to his works . VOL ...
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... ancient of things , Chaos , Night , and Dulness ; so is it of the most grave and ancient kind . Homer ( saith Aristotle ) was the first who gave the form , and ( saith Horace ) who adapted the measure , to heroic poesy . But even before ...
... ancient of things , Chaos , Night , and Dulness ; so is it of the most grave and ancient kind . Homer ( saith Aristotle ) was the first who gave the form , and ( saith Horace ) who adapted the measure , to heroic poesy . But even before ...
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... ancient Greek manner , to wit , that of Dunciad . Wonderful it is , that so few of the moderns have been stimulated to attempt some Dunciad ! since , in the opinion of the multitude , it might cost less pain and toil than an intimation ...
... ancient Greek manner , to wit , that of Dunciad . Wonderful it is , that so few of the moderns have been stimulated to attempt some Dunciad ! since , in the opinion of the multitude , it might cost less pain and toil than an intimation ...
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... ancient and classical authority ( though , as was the manner of those good times , not so curiously wrapped up ) ... ancients ; insomuch that any deviation , accompanied with whatever poetic beauties , hath always been censured by the ...
... ancient and classical authority ( though , as was the manner of those good times , not so curiously wrapped up ) ... ancients ; insomuch that any deviation , accompanied with whatever poetic beauties , hath always been censured by the ...
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Page 291 - Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, CHAOS! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all.
Page 24 - Boileau has so very well enlarged upon in the preface to his works, that wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn.
Page 369 - How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue ! How sweet the periods, neither said, nor sung! Still break the benches, Henley ! with thy strain, While Sherlock, Hare, and Gibson preach in vain. Oh, great restorer of the good old stage, Preacher at once, and zany of thy age ! Oh, worthy thou of Egypt's wise abodes, A decent priest, where monkeys were the gods...
Page 368 - Pegasus's neck ; Down, down they larum, with impetuous whirl, The Pindars, and the Miltons of a Curl. " Silence, ye Wolves ! while Ralph to Cynthia howls, And makes night hideous — Answer him, ye Owls ! 166 " Sense, speech, and measure, living tongues and dead, Let all give way, and Morris may be read.
Page 246 - 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.
Page 288 - In vain, in vain ! The all-composing hour Resistless falls ; the Muse obeys the power. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne...
Page 248 - Some gentle JAMES, to bless the land again; To stick the Doctor's Chair into the Throne, Give law to Words, or war with Words alone, Senates and Courts with Greek and Latin rule, And turn the Council to a Grammar School! For sure, if Dulness sees a grateful Day, 'Tis in the shade of Arbitrary Sway.
Page 252 - Thy mighty scholiast, whose unwearied pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains. Turn what they will to verse, their toil is vain, Critics like me shall make it prose again.
Page 336 - Here she beholds the chaos dark and deep, Where nameless somethings in their causes sleep, 'Till genial Jacob, or a warm third day, Call forth each mass, a poem, or a play; How hints, like spawn, scarce quick in embryo lie, How new-born nonsense first is taught to cry ; Maggots half-form'd in rhyme exactly meet, And learn to crawl upon poetic feet.
Page 235 - But soon, ah soon, Rebellion will commence, If Music meanly borrows aid from Sense. Strong in new Arms, lo! Giant HANDEL stands, Like bold Briareus, with a hundred hands; To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he comes, And Jove's own Thunders follow Mars's Drums. Arrest him, Empress ; or you sleep no more — ' She heard, and drove him to th