The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly, Том 21835 |
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... genius and literature of poetry . The annotations and criticisms on the poems are judicious , and aid the reading of the text materially . The memoir is discrimi- native and impartial , and does justice both to the poet and the man ...
... genius and literature of poetry . The annotations and criticisms on the poems are judicious , and aid the reading of the text materially . The memoir is discrimi- native and impartial , and does justice both to the poet and the man ...
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... genius of Dr. Croly enables him to revive the oldest and most familiar works with a phoenix - like freshness , and he has done so in the present instance . The memoir of the poet , which precedes the poems , is written in an impartial ...
... genius of Dr. Croly enables him to revive the oldest and most familiar works with a phoenix - like freshness , and he has done so in the present instance . The memoir of the poet , which precedes the poems , is written in an impartial ...
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... genius might have made him eminent as a soldier ; Fortune decreed that he should be memorable and miserable as a priest . Eager for distinction , he adopted the florishing side of scholastic theology , plunged with the natural vigor of ...
... genius might have made him eminent as a soldier ; Fortune decreed that he should be memorable and miserable as a priest . Eager for distinction , he adopted the florishing side of scholastic theology , plunged with the natural vigor of ...
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... genius : Aristotle , Longinus , and Horace , are familiar to all scholars . They have fallen into occasional disrepute , as attempting to teach what is unteachable , the attainment of excellence by rule ; but the truer estimate of those ...
... genius : Aristotle , Longinus , and Horace , are familiar to all scholars . They have fallen into occasional disrepute , as attempting to teach what is unteachable , the attainment of excellence by rule ; but the truer estimate of those ...
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... genius , ver . 9 to 18 . That most men are born with some taste , but spoiled by false education , ver . 19 to 25. The multitude of critics , and causes of them , ver . 26 to 45. That we are to study our own taste , and know the limits ...
... genius , ver . 9 to 18 . That most men are born with some taste , but spoiled by false education , ver . 19 to 25. The multitude of critics , and causes of them , ver . 26 to 45. That we are to study our own taste , and know the limits ...
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Сторінка 72 - whispers through the trees ;' If crystal streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep;' Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Сторінка 196 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Сторінка 70 - Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face of nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay ; But true expression, like th' unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
Сторінка 61 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchang'd, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides, Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...
Сторінка 67 - A little learning is a dangerous thing! Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
Сторінка 110 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;) " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace " Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : " One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead— " And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Сторінка 180 - They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? 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. No place is sacred, not the church is free, Ev'n Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me: Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me, just at dinner-time.
Сторінка 73 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Сторінка 81 - Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do ; Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Сторінка 69 - The manners, passions, unities, what not? All which, exact to rule, were brought about, Were but a combat in the lists left out. "What! leave the combat out?" exclaims the knight; Yes, or we must renounce the Stagirite. "Not so, by Heaven" (he answers in a rage), "Knights, squires, and steeds, must enter on the stage.