The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with a life, by A. Dyce, Volume 31863 |
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... Curll invites to dine , He'll write a journal , or he'll turn divine . ” Bless me ! a packet .- ' Tis a stranger sues , A virgin tragedy , an orphan Muse . approve , If I dislike it , " Furies , death , and rage ! " If I " Commend it to ...
... Curll invites to dine , He'll write a journal , or he'll turn divine . ” Bless me ! a packet .- ' Tis a stranger sues , A virgin tragedy , an orphan Muse . approve , If I dislike it , " Furies , death , and rage ! " If I " Commend it to ...
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... Curll of court " means Lord Hervey . 5 " Mr. Pope's father , " says our author in a note on this passage , " was of a gentleman's family in Oxfordshire , the head of which was the Earl of Downe , whose sole heiress While yet in Britain ...
... Curll of court " means Lord Hervey . 5 " Mr. Pope's father , " says our author in a note on this passage , " was of a gentleman's family in Oxfordshire , the head of which was the Earl of Downe , whose sole heiress While yet in Britain ...
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... censurer of our author ) yet styleth this ' a laudable translation . ' 21 20 Alma , canto 2 . 21 In his Essays , vol . i . , printed for E. Curll . That ready writer , MR . OLDMIXON , in his TESTIMONIES OF AUTHORS . 167.
... censurer of our author ) yet styleth this ' a laudable translation . ' 21 20 Alma , canto 2 . 21 In his Essays , vol . i . , printed for E. Curll . That ready writer , MR . OLDMIXON , in his TESTIMONIES OF AUTHORS . 167.
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... a friendly rebuke , sent privately , in our author's own hand , to Mr. Addison himself , and never made public , till after their own Journals and Curll had printed the same . One name alone , which I am 172 TESTIMONIES OF AUTHORS .
... a friendly rebuke , sent privately , in our author's own hand , to Mr. Addison himself , and never made public , till after their own Journals and Curll had printed the same . One name alone , which I am 172 TESTIMONIES OF AUTHORS .
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... Curll boldly supplies an imperfect verse with kings and princesses ; 39 and one Mat- thew Concanen , yet more impudent , publishes at length the two most sacred names in this nation as members of the Dunciad ! 40 This is prodigious ...
... Curll boldly supplies an imperfect verse with kings and princesses ; 39 and one Mat- thew Concanen , yet more impudent , publishes at length the two most sacred names in this nation as members of the Dunciad ! 40 This is prodigious ...
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Page 8 - Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar Toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Page 8 - 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.
Page 352 - See Mystery to Mathematics fly ! In vain ! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restor'd; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all.
Page 352 - Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest, Clos'd one by one to everlasting rest; Thus at her felt approach, and secret might, Art after Art goes out, and all is Night: See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head!
Page 135 - Berkshire, •This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an honest man : A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace.
Page 129 - Yet soft his nature, though severe his lay, His anger moral, and his wisdom gay. Blest satirist ! who touch'd the mean so true, As show'd, vice had his hate and pity too. Blest courtier ! who could king and country please, Yet sacred keep his friendships, and his ease. Blest peer ! his great forefathers...
Page 72 - Bright through the rubbish of some hundred years ; Command old words, that Ion*; have slept, to wake, Words that wise Bacon or brave Raleigh spake ; Or bid the new be English ages hence (For use will father what's begot by sense); Pour the full tide of eloquence along, Serenely pure, and yet divinely strong, Rich with the treasures of each foreign tongue...