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... pafs cenfure on intentions of Mischief ; fo that for fecret calumny , or the arrow flying in the dark , there is no public punishment left , but what a good Writer inflicts . The next objection is , that these fort of authors are poor ...
... pafs cenfure on intentions of Mischief ; fo that for fecret calumny , or the arrow flying in the dark , there is no public punishment left , but what a good Writer inflicts . The next objection is , that these fort of authors are poor ...
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... a Thief or Impoftor . - The fame will hold in the re- public of Letters , if the Critics and Judges will let every ignorant pretender to fcribbling pafs on the World . VOL . III . C THEO . THEOBALD , Letter to Mift , June 22 , 1728 [ 17 ]
... a Thief or Impoftor . - The fame will hold in the re- public of Letters , if the Critics and Judges will let every ignorant pretender to fcribbling pafs on the World . VOL . III . C THEO . THEOBALD , Letter to Mift , June 22 , 1728 [ 17 ]
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... pafs himself on the world for a Hero , as well by birth as education , was his own fault : For his lineage he bringeth into his life as an Anecdote , and is fenfible he had it in his power to be thought no- body's fon at all : And what ...
... pafs himself on the world for a Hero , as well by birth as education , was his own fault : For his lineage he bringeth into his life as an Anecdote , and is fenfible he had it in his power to be thought no- body's fon at all : And what ...
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... Pafs , and vagrant through the land ; Nor fail with Ward , to Ape - and - monkey climes , Where vile Mundungus trucks for viler rhymes : REMARKS . 230 Not , Ver . 225. O born in fin , & c . ] This is a tender and paffionate Apoftrophe ...
... Pafs , and vagrant through the land ; Nor fail with Ward , to Ape - and - monkey climes , Where vile Mundungus trucks for viler rhymes : REMARKS . 230 Not , Ver . 225. O born in fin , & c . ] This is a tender and paffionate Apoftrophe ...
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... pafs more innocent , in infant state , To the mild Limbo of our Father Tate : Or peaceably forgot , at once be bleft In Shadwell's bofom with eternal reft ! Soon to that mafs of Nonfenfe to return , Where things destroy'd are swept to ...
... pafs more innocent , in infant state , To the mild Limbo of our Father Tate : Or peaceably forgot , at once be bleft In Shadwell's bofom with eternal reft ! Soon to that mafs of Nonfenfe to return , Where things destroy'd are swept to ...
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Сторінка 24 - Poetry, he will find but few precepts in it which he may not meet with in Aristotle, and which were not commonly known by all the poets of the Augustan age. His way of expressing and applying them, not his invention of them, is what we are chiefly to admire.
Сторінка 273 - He was not without hopes that, by manifesting the dulness of those who had only malice to recommend them, either the booksellers would not find their account in employing them, or the men themselves, when discovered, want courage to proceed in so unlawful an occupation. This it was that gave birth to the Dunciad...
Сторінка 272 - ... all the great characters of the age, and this with impunity, their own persons and names being utterly secret and obscure.
Сторінка 263 - Night primaeval and of Chaos old ! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus
Сторінка 81 - Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, Where o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand Great Gibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand ; One cell there is, conceal'd from vulgar eye, The cave of Poverty and Poetry. Keen hollow winds howl thro' the bleak recess, Emblem of music caus'd by emptiness.
Сторінка 236 - Full in the midst of Euclid dip at once, And petrify a genius to a dunce ; Or, set on metaphysic ground to prance, Show all his paces, not a step advance.
Сторінка 84 - Call forth each mass, a Poem or a Play : How hints, like spawn, scarce quick in embryo lie, How new-born nonsense first is taught to cry, 60 Maggots, half-form'd, in rhyme exactly meet, And learn to crawl upon poetic feet.
Сторінка 24 - As for those which are the most known, and the most received, they are placed in so beautiful a light, and illustrated with such apt allusions, that they have in them all the graces of novelty, and make the reader, who was before acquainted with them, still more convinced of their truth and solidity.
Сторінка 207 - Polly, till then obscure, became all at once the favourite of the town ; her pictures were engraved, and sold in great numbers ; her life written, books of letters and verses to her published, and pamphlets made even of her sayings and jests.
Сторінка 207 - Furthermore, it drove out of England (for that season) the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for ten years.