An Historical Rhapsody on Mr. PopeT. Cadell, 1782 - 95 strán (strany) |
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... certainly due to poetry and to poets . In vain were they ordered to be banished from the commonwealth of Plato . Little has their importance in the world been leffened by the degrading affertion , that the inventor of a wheelbarow has ...
... certainly due to poetry and to poets . In vain were they ordered to be banished from the commonwealth of Plato . Little has their importance in the world been leffened by the degrading affertion , that the inventor of a wheelbarow has ...
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... certainly had as little rubbish about him , as any man of his years , to use an expreffion of Sir Robert Walpole , on Mr. Legge . Having no profeffion to follow , he determined to com- mence + mence a poet in form . He left no [ 11 ]
... certainly had as little rubbish about him , as any man of his years , to use an expreffion of Sir Robert Walpole , on Mr. Legge . Having no profeffion to follow , he determined to com- mence + mence a poet in form . He left no [ 11 ]
Strana 36
... certainly deferves as much applause for comprifing and condensing more fenfe into . one line , than ever had been done before . Dean Swift thus happily expreffes the faculty of his friend ? " In Pope I cannot read a line But with a figh ...
... certainly deferves as much applause for comprifing and condensing more fenfe into . one line , than ever had been done before . Dean Swift thus happily expreffes the faculty of his friend ? " In Pope I cannot read a line But with a figh ...
Strana 55
... certainly born , for nothing but to write . He fpread the ingot of gold from the mine of Bolingbroke ( if there was any gold in the mine of his metaphy- fics ) into fuch rich poetical leaf , that , when we read the Effay on Man , we ...
... certainly born , for nothing but to write . He fpread the ingot of gold from the mine of Bolingbroke ( if there was any gold in the mine of his metaphy- fics ) into fuch rich poetical leaf , that , when we read the Effay on Man , we ...
Strana 61
... take more pains , and write better verfes in future . Dr. Donne ( for I hope we are getting into the road again ) does not afford Mr. Pope fuch oppor- opportunity of entertaining fatire as Horace . The copy certainly [ 61 ]
... take more pains , and write better verfes in future . Dr. Donne ( for I hope we are getting into the road again ) does not afford Mr. Pope fuch oppor- opportunity of entertaining fatire as Horace . The copy certainly [ 61 ]
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Strana 98 - Tire little nightingale. His manners were ' delicate, eafy, and engaging : and he treated his friends with a politenefs that charmed, and a generofity that was much to his honour. Every gueft was made happy within his doors. Pleafure dwelt under his roof, and t Elegance Elegance prefided at his table.
Strana 42 - That man has a malignant and ungenerous heart ; and he is base enough to assume the mask of a moralist, in order to decry human nature, and to give a decent vent to his hatred of man and woman kind.
Strana 99 - My head and heart thus flowing thro' my quill, Verse-man or prose-man, term me which you will, Papist or Protestant, or both between, Like good Erasmus in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory.
Strana 36 - I feem the higher. In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a figh I wifh it mine : When he can in one couplet fix More fenfe, than I can do in fix, It gives me fuch a jealous fit, I cry, pox take him and his wit.