The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: The DunciadJ. and P. Knapton, 1752 |
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... edition with NOTES , in quarto 314 IV . Advertisement to the First edition of the FOURTH BOok when printed Separately V. Advertisement to the complete edition of 1743 VI . Advertisement printed in the Journal 1730 VII . A parallel of ...
... edition with NOTES , in quarto 314 IV . Advertisement to the First edition of the FOURTH BOok when printed Separately V. Advertisement to the complete edition of 1743 VI . Advertisement printed in the Journal 1730 VII . A parallel of ...
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Alexander Pope. A LETTER TO THE PUBLISHER , Occafioned by the first correct Edition of the DUNCIA D. I T is with pleasure I hear , that you have pro- cured a correct copy of the DUNCIAD , which the many furreptitious ones have rendered ...
Alexander Pope. A LETTER TO THE PUBLISHER , Occafioned by the first correct Edition of the DUNCIA D. I T is with pleasure I hear , that you have pro- cured a correct copy of the DUNCIAD , which the many furreptitious ones have rendered ...
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... edition of this Poem himself , I may fee fome of them treated as gently , on their repentance or better merit , as Perrault and Quinault were at laft by BOILEAU . In one point I must be allowed to think the character of our English Poet ...
... edition of this Poem himself , I may fee fome of them treated as gently , on their repentance or better merit , as Perrault and Quinault were at laft by BOILEAU . In one point I must be allowed to think the character of our English Poet ...
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... editions of his Key he left out this affcrtion , and affirmed ( in the Curl : ad , p . 4. and 8. ) that it was written by Dennis only • Reflections critical and fatyrical on a Rhapiody , called , An Effay on Criticifm . Printed for ...
... editions of his Key he left out this affcrtion , and affirmed ( in the Curl : ad , p . 4. and 8. ) that it was written by Dennis only • Reflections critical and fatyrical on a Rhapiody , called , An Effay on Criticifm . Printed for ...
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... editions , by I can't tell what Sham - Hero , or Phantom : But it was not fo eafy to impofe on HIM whom this egregious error most of all concerned . For no fooner had the fourth book laid open the high and fwelling fcene , but he ...
... editions , by I can't tell what Sham - Hero , or Phantom : But it was not fo eafy to impofe on HIM whom this egregious error most of all concerned . For no fooner had the fourth book laid open the high and fwelling fcene , but he ...
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Page 253 - We only furnish what he cannot use, Or wed to what he must divorce, a muse: 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.
Page 224 - The moon-struck prophet felt the madding hour : Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out order, and extinguish light, Of dull and venal a new world to mould, And bring Saturnian days of lead and gold.
Page 302 - ... what contemptible men were the authors of it. He was not without hopes that, by manifesting the...
Page 78 - There motley Images her fancy strike, Figures ill pair'd, and Similies unlike. She sees a Mob of Metaphors advance, Pleas'd with the madness of the mazy dance: How Tragedy and Comedy embrace; How Farce and Epic get a jumbled race; How Time himself stands still at her command, Realms shift their place, and Ocean turns to land.
Page 239 - As Fancy opens the quick springs of Sense, We ply the Memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit, and double chain on chain; Confine the thought, to exercise the breath; And keep them in the pale of Words till death.
Page 215 - The person who acted Polly, till then obscure, became all at Once the favourite of the town; her pictures were engraved, and...
Page 249 - The critic eye, that microscope of wit, Sees hairs and pores, examines bit by bit : How parts relate to parts or they to whole ; The body's harmony, the beaming soul, Are things which Kuster, Burman, Wasse shall see, When man's whole frame is obvious to a flea.
Page 216 - Furthermore, it drove out of England (for that season) the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for ten years.
Page 153 - Ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood.
Page 215 - This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixtythree days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time ; at Bath and Bristol fifty, &c.