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... quarto of 1717. He brought out a sixth octavo edition of the essay in 1719 , and a seventh in 1722 , and reprinted the poem in each of the four editions of his Miscellanies which were published between 1720 and 1732 . AN ESSAY ON ...
... quarto of 1717. He brought out a sixth octavo edition of the essay in 1719 , and a seventh in 1722 , and reprinted the poem in each of the four editions of his Miscellanies which were published between 1720 and 1732 . AN ESSAY ON ...
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... quarto of 1717 , it is said , that it was " C written in the year 1709 , " to which Richardson has attached the note , " Mr. Pope told me himself that the Essay on Criticism was , indeed , written 1707 , though said 1709 by mistake ...
... quarto of 1717 , it is said , that it was " C written in the year 1709 , " to which Richardson has attached the note , " Mr. Pope told me himself that the Essay on Criticism was , indeed , written 1707 , though said 1709 by mistake ...
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... quarto of 1743 , and sanctioned the promulgation of a different date on the concluding page . There is the same contradiction in his conversations with Spence . " My Essay on Criticism , " he said on one occasion , was written in 1709 ...
... quarto of 1743 , and sanctioned the promulgation of a different date on the concluding page . There is the same contradiction in his conversations with Spence . " My Essay on Criticism , " he said on one occasion , was written in 1709 ...
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... quarto of 1743 , it was , There are whom heav'n has blest with store of wit , Yet want as much again to manage it . The idea was suggested by a sen- tence in Sprat's Account of Cowley : " His fancy flowed with great speed , and ...
... quarto of 1743 , it was , There are whom heav'n has blest with store of wit , Yet want as much again to manage it . The idea was suggested by a sen- tence in Sprat's Account of Cowley : " His fancy flowed with great speed , and ...
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... quarto of 1743 , was for the first time placed immediately after the triplet which ends at ver . 160. The effect of this arrangement was that " Pegasus , " in- stead of the " great wits , " became the antecedent to the lines , " From ...
... quarto of 1743 , was for the first time placed immediately after the triplet which ends at ver . 160. The effect of this arrangement was that " Pegasus , " in- stead of the " great wits , " became the antecedent to the lines , " From ...
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Page 460 - To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill; And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than Hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue.
Page 140 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Page 54 - 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 157 - At every word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. Meanwhile, declining from the noon of day, The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray ; The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang, that jurymen may dine; The merchant from th* Exchange returns in peace, And the long labours of the toilet cease.
Page 153 - Or roll the planets through the boundless sky; Some less refined, beneath the moon's pale light Pursue the stars that shoot athwart the night, Or suck the mists in grosser air below, Or dip their pinions in the painted bow, Or brew fierce tempests on the wintry main, Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain.
Page 346 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise ; , Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Page 461 - If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way!
Page 163 - T' inclose the lock; now joins it, to divide. Even then, before the fatal engine closed, A wretched sylph too fondly interposed; Fate urged the shears, and cut the sylph in twain (But airy substance soon unites again). The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, for ever and for ever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes. And screams of horror rend th
Page 45 - A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring ; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
Page 44 - OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth denied, She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For as in bodies, thus in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swelled with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.