An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...R. and J. Dodsley, 1762 |
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Page v
... poetical , than the CHARAC- TERS of La Bruyere in PROSE ; and that it is a creative and glowing IMAGINA- TION , acer fpiritus ac vis , " and that alone , that can stamp a writer with this exalted and very uncommon character , which fo ...
... poetical , than the CHARAC- TERS of La Bruyere in PROSE ; and that it is a creative and glowing IMAGINA- TION , acer fpiritus ac vis , " and that alone , that can stamp a writer with this exalted and very uncommon character , which fo ...
Page vii
... often repeated , but whofe meaning is not extended and weighed as it ought to be . Nothing can be more judicious than the method he prescribes , of of trying whether any compofition be effentially poetical or not DEDICATION . vii.
... often repeated , but whofe meaning is not extended and weighed as it ought to be . Nothing can be more judicious than the method he prescribes , of of trying whether any compofition be effentially poetical or not DEDICATION . vii.
Page viii
... poetical spirit , all your inver- fions and tranfpofitions will not difguife and extinguish it ; but it will retain its luftre , like a diamond , unset , and thrown back into the rubbish of the mine . Let us make a little experiment on ...
... poetical spirit , all your inver- fions and tranfpofitions will not difguife and extinguish it ; but it will retain its luftre , like a diamond , unset , and thrown back into the rubbish of the mine . Let us make a little experiment on ...
Page ix
... poetical as the " Qui fit " Mæcenas " of the author who recom- mends this method of trial . Take ten lines of the Iliad , Paradife Loft , or even of the Georgics of Virgil , and fee whe- ther by any process of critical chymistry , you ...
... poetical as the " Qui fit " Mæcenas " of the author who recom- mends this method of trial . Take ten lines of the Iliad , Paradife Loft , or even of the Georgics of Virgil , and fee whe- ther by any process of critical chymistry , you ...
Page xi
... poetical genius , in a more moderate degree , but had no- ble talents for moral , ethical , and pane- gyrical poefy . At the head of these are DRYDEN , PRIOR , ADDISON , COWLEY , WALLER , GARTH , FENTON , GAY , DEN- HAM , PARNELL . In ...
... poetical genius , in a more moderate degree , but had no- ble talents for moral , ethical , and pane- gyrical poefy . At the head of these are DRYDEN , PRIOR , ADDISON , COWLEY , WALLER , GARTH , FENTON , GAY , DEN- HAM , PARNELL . In ...
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Page 40 - Pollute with sinful blame, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw; Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities.
Page 225 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch when owls do cry. 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 310 - How oft, when press'd to marriage, have I said, Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies...
Page 314 - Ah no! instruct me other joys to prize, With other beauties charm my partial eyes, Full in my view set all the bright abode, And make my soul quit Abelard for God.
Page 134 - ... faces to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody but the painter that made them ; not but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was ; but he must do it by a kind of felicity, (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music,) and not by rule.
Page 38 - The oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving: No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
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Page 97 - The Art of Criticism, which was published some months since, and is a master-piece in its kind. The observations follow one another like those in Horace's Art of Poetry, without that methodical regularity which would have been requisite in a prose author.
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