The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Satires. On receiving from the Right Honourable the Lady Frances Shirley, a standish and two pens. A fragment of an unpublished satire of Pope intitled One thousand seven hundred and forty. The plan of an epic poem, to have been written in blank verse, and intitled Brutus. Preface to Homer's Iliad. Postscript to the OdysseyJ. Johnson, 1806 |
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... wrote : Who can believe , who view the bad and good , That the dull copyist better understood That spirit he pretends to imitate , Than heretofore the Greek he did translate ? Thine is juft fuch an image of his pen As thou thyfelf art ...
... wrote : Who can believe , who view the bad and good , That the dull copyist better understood That spirit he pretends to imitate , Than heretofore the Greek he did translate ? Thine is juft fuch an image of his pen As thou thyfelf art ...
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... wrote to Swift a little before his death , and is inferted in the third volume of Letters , p . 157. He frequently , and ably , and warmly , in many converfations , defended the caufe of revela- tion against the attacks of Bolingbroke ...
... wrote to Swift a little before his death , and is inferted in the third volume of Letters , p . 157. He frequently , and ably , and warmly , in many converfations , defended the caufe of revela- tion against the attacks of Bolingbroke ...
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... wrote in it , as did Dr. Bland . WARTON . VER . 55 A packet . ] Alludes to a tragedy called the Virgin Queen , by Mr. R. Barford , published 1729 , who displeased Pope by daring to adopt the fine machinery of his Sylphs in an heroi ...
... wrote in it , as did Dr. Bland . WARTON . VER . 55 A packet . ] Alludes to a tragedy called the Virgin Queen , by Mr. R. Barford , published 1729 , who displeased Pope by daring to adopt the fine machinery of his Sylphs in an heroi ...
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... wrote , in conjunction with Philips , a paper called the Free- thinker . He was then only minifter of a parish in Southwark ; but being confidered of confequence to Government , he was firft made Dean of St. Paul's , and afterwards ...
... wrote , in conjunction with Philips , a paper called the Free- thinker . He was then only minifter of a parish in Southwark ; but being confidered of confequence to Government , he was firft made Dean of St. Paul's , and afterwards ...
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... wrote , in those early days , a Comedy and Tragedy , the latter taken from a story in the legend of St. Genevieve . They both defervedly underwent the fame fate . As he began his Paftorals foon after , he used to fay pleasantly , that ...
... wrote , in those early days , a Comedy and Tragedy , the latter taken from a story in the legend of St. Genevieve . They both defervedly underwent the fame fate . As he began his Paftorals foon after , he used to fay pleasantly , that ...
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Page 11 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Page 49 - Oh, let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do): Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please; Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend.
Page 12 - They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide. By land, by water, they renew the charge; They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Page 217 - Nassau to Kneller's hand decreed To fix him graceful on the bounding Steed; So well in paint and stone they judg'd of merit: But Kings in Wit may want discerning spirit.
Page 311 - Seen him, uncumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. Would he oblige me? let me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind. Come, come, at all I laugh he laughs, no doubt; The only difference is, I dare laugh out.
Page 354 - Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad. When truth or virtue an affront endures, Th' affront is mine, my friend, and should be yours.
Page 21 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Page 93 - There my Retreat, the best Companions grace, Chiefs out of War, and Statesmen out of Place. There ST JOHN mingles with my friendly Bowl, The Feast of Reason, and the Flow of Soul. And HE, whose Lightning pierc'd th...
Page 219 - Besides, a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praise they say I bite. A vile encomium doubly ridicules : There's nothing blackens like the ink of fools. If true, a woful likeness ; and, if lies, ' Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.
Page 9 - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky...