The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 84
Page 190
... never did exist . Where's now this fav'rite of Apollo ? Departed ; and his words must follow : Must undergo the common fate ; His kind of wit is out of date . Some country Squire to Lintot goes , Enquires for SWIFT in Verse and Prose ...
... never did exist . Where's now this fav'rite of Apollo ? Departed ; and his words must follow : Must undergo the common fate ; His kind of wit is out of date . Some country Squire to Lintot goes , Enquires for SWIFT in Verse and Prose ...
Page 191
... never known , But what he writ , was all his own . " He never thought an honour done him , Because a duke was proud to own him : Would rather slip aside , and chuse To talk with wits in dirty shoes : Despis'd the fools with Stars and ...
... never known , But what he writ , was all his own . " He never thought an honour done him , Because a duke was proud to own him : Would rather slip aside , and chuse To talk with wits in dirty shoes : Despis'd the fools with Stars and ...
Page 278
... never be- fore so well expressed , " 2 they certainly never at- tained nor ever sought it , for they endeavoured to be singular in their thoughts , and were careless of their diction . But Pope's account of wit is undoubt- edly ...
... never be- fore so well expressed , " 2 they certainly never at- tained nor ever sought it , for they endeavoured to be singular in their thoughts , and were careless of their diction . But Pope's account of wit is undoubt- edly ...
Contents
Mark Akenside | 10 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
Copyright | |
33 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
ancient appear beauty better body called cause common considered continued court critics death desire effect English equal eyes fair fall fear feel follow force give hand happy head heart Heaven hope human ideas imagination Italy John Johnson kind king knowledge laws learning leave less light live look Lord lost mankind manner means mind moral nature never o'er object observed once opinion pain pass passions perhaps person pleased pleasure poem poet poetry Pope praise present pride prince principle produce reader reason rest rise round rules seems sense sometimes soul spirit sure Swift tell things thou thought tion true truth turn virtue whole wind write