Life of PopeMacmillan, 1899 - 200 strani |
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... attention of the literary world , naturally raised such expectations of the future sale , that the booksellers made their offers with great eagerness ; but the highest bidder was Bernard Lintot , who became proprietor on condition of ...
... attention of the literary world , naturally raised such expectations of the future sale , that the booksellers made their offers with great eagerness ; but the highest bidder was Bernard Lintot , who became proprietor on condition of ...
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... attention but that of pride , and drop from any memory but that of resentment . That the quarrel of those two wits should be minutely deduced , is not to be expected from a writer , to whom , as , Homer says , nothing but rumour has ...
... attention but that of pride , and drop from any memory but that of resentment . That the quarrel of those two wits should be minutely deduced , is not to be expected from a writer , to whom , as , Homer says , nothing but rumour has ...
Stran 34
... attention to offences , heighten his disgust , and stimulate his resentment . Of such adherents Addison doubtless had many , and Pope was now too high , to be without them . From the emission and reception of the Proposals for the Iliad ...
... attention to offences , heighten his disgust , and stimulate his resentment . Of such adherents Addison doubtless had many , and Pope was now too high , to be without them . From the emission and reception of the Proposals for the Iliad ...
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... attention upon his works , which , though often mentioned , had been little read . Soon after the appearance of the Iliad , resolving not to let the general kindness cool , he published proposals for a translation of the Odyssey , in ...
... attention upon his works , which , though often mentioned , had been little read . Soon after the appearance of the Iliad , resolving not to let the general kindness cool , he published proposals for a translation of the Odyssey , in ...
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... attention to their ultimate purpose ; its flowers caught the eye , which did not see what the gay foliage concealed , and for a time flourished in the sunshine of universal approbation . So little was any evil tendency discovered , that ...
... attention to their ultimate purpose ; its flowers caught the eye , which did not see what the gay foliage concealed , and for a time flourished in the sunshine of universal approbation . So little was any evil tendency discovered , that ...
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Addison afterwards appear Atossa attacked Binfield Bolingbroke booksellers censure character Cibber Colley Cibber Compare copies couplet Craggs Curll Dennis diligence Dryden Duchess of Marlborough Duke Dunciad edition elegance endeavoured English Epistle to Arbuthnot epitaph Essay on Criticism excellence fame father favour Fenton friendship genius Greek Halifax Homer honour Horace Horace Walpole Iliad Imitations Jervas Johnson King labour Lady Latin learning letters lines Lintot living Lord Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Lord Hervey means MICHAEL MACMILLAN mind Miscellanies moral nature never numbers o'er pamphlet passage perhaps poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise printed prose published quincunx readers reason remarks ridiculous Rosicrucians satire Scriblerus Club seems sewed Spence subscription Swift tell Theobald thought tion told translation verses Virgil volume W. T. WEBB Warburton Windsor Forest words write written wrote
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Stran 90 - If the flights of Dryden, therefore, are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
Stran 29 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Stran 184 - Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind : But more...
Stran 162 - There dwelt a Citizen of sober fame, A plain good man, and Balaam was his name ; Religious, punctual, frugal, and so forth; His word would pass for more than he was worth.
Stran 89 - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope.
Stran 173 - It has been confidently related, with many embellishments, that Johnson one day knocked Osborne down in his shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. " Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But it was not in his shop : it was in my own chamber.
Stran 117 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
Stran 184 - Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last; But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way, Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!
Stran 181 - He seems to have been, at least among us, the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry, of which the fundamental subject is some particular landscape, to be poetically described with the addition of such embellishments as may be supplied by historical retrospection or incidental meditation.
Stran 147 - 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 pierced the' Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines; Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as he conquer'd Spain.