Life of PopeMacmillan, 1899 - 200 strani |
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Stran xiii
... living among them . His own importance is often in his mind , his letters show him insensible to excellence in others . As a friend he was liberal and faithful ; zealous and constant . He professed the Roman Catholic religion SUMMARY OF ...
... living among them . His own importance is often in his mind , his letters show him insensible to excellence in others . As a friend he was liberal and faithful ; zealous and constant . He professed the Roman Catholic religion SUMMARY OF ...
Stran 9
... living and dead . Fourthly , he knows not his own mind , and 10 frequently contradicts himself . Fifthly , he is almost per- petually in the wrong . " All these positions he attempts to prove by quotations and remarks ; but his desire ...
... living and dead . Fourthly , he knows not his own mind , and 10 frequently contradicts himself . Fifthly , he is almost per- petually in the wrong . " All these positions he attempts to prove by quotations and remarks ; but his desire ...
Stran 28
... living ray ; High on his helm celestial lightnings play , His beamy shield emits a living ray ; The Goddess with her breath the flame supplies , Bright as the star whose fires in Autumn rise ; Her breath divino thick streaming flames ...
... living ray ; High on his helm celestial lightnings play , His beamy shield emits a living ray ; The Goddess with her breath the flame supplies , Bright as the star whose fires in Autumn rise ; Her breath divino thick streaming flames ...
Stran 49
... living till he was at the summit of poetical reputa- tion , till he was at ease in his fortune , and without a rival in his fame , and found no diminution of his respect or tenderness . Whatever was his pride , to them he was ) obedient ...
... living till he was at the summit of poetical reputa- tion , till he was at ease in his fortune , and without a rival in his fame , and found no diminution of his respect or tenderness . Whatever was his pride , to them he was ) obedient ...
Stran 51
... living or not yet forgotten , they may be sup- posed to have found readers ; but as the facts were minute , and the ... living mistress or friend . Pope's epistolary excellence had an open field ; he had no English rival , living or dead ...
... living or not yet forgotten , they may be sup- posed to have found readers ; but as the facts were minute , and the ... living mistress or friend . Pope's epistolary excellence had an open field ; he had no English rival , living or dead ...
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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.