The Works of Alexander Pope, 7. kötetJ.F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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vii. oldal
... the Author to publish his II . From Sir William Trumbull . Of his first Translation of Homer III . From Sir William Trumbull . On the Rape of the Lock 207 208 - 211 LETTER IV . Against compliment , and vanity ; the CONTENTS .
... the Author to publish his II . From Sir William Trumbull . Of his first Translation of Homer III . From Sir William Trumbull . On the Rape of the Lock 207 208 - 211 LETTER IV . Against compliment , and vanity ; the CONTENTS .
72. oldal
... Homer , and Homer has been accused of burning those that wrote before him , that his thefts might not be discovered . The best of the modern Poets in all languages are those that have the nearest copied the Ancients . Indeed , in all ...
... Homer , and Homer has been accused of burning those that wrote before him , that his thefts might not be discovered . The best of the modern Poets in all languages are those that have the nearest copied the Ancients . Indeed , in all ...
74. oldal
... Homer is very incorrect . While they talk at this rate , one would think them above the common rate of mortals : But generally they are great admirers of Ovid and Lu- can ; and when they write themselves , we find out all the mystery ...
... Homer is very incorrect . While they talk at this rate , one would think them above the common rate of mortals : But generally they are great admirers of Ovid and Lu- can ; and when they write themselves , we find out all the mystery ...
77. oldal
... Homer and Virgil , and no where else , that I know of , to any observable degree . The following examples will make this plain , which I have taken from Vida . Molle viam tacito lapsu per lævia radit . Incedit tardo molimine subsidendo ...
... Homer and Virgil , and no where else , that I know of , to any observable degree . The following examples will make this plain , which I have taken from Vida . Molle viam tacito lapsu per lævia radit . Incedit tardo molimine subsidendo ...
97. oldal
... of Poetical Miscellanies , in which Mr. Pope's Pastorals , and some versions of Homer and Chaucer , were first printed . P. VOL . VI . H their other flowers to the market , which if they H. CROMWELL , ESQ . 97 Of his Juvenile Poems -
... of Poetical Miscellanies , in which Mr. Pope's Pastorals , and some versions of Homer and Chaucer , were first printed . P. VOL . VI . H their other flowers to the market , which if they H. CROMWELL , ESQ . 97 Of his Juvenile Poems -
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acquaintance Addison admirers Æneid agreeable assure Aulus Gellius beauty believe Comedy compliment copy critics CROMWELL desire Dryden Dulness Dunciad duodecimo Eclogues edition entertaining Epic Poetry esteem Euripides express fancy faults favour friendship give glad happy HENRY CROMWELL Homer honour hope Iliad imagine Irenæus judgment kind Lady least less LETTER lines Lintot live Lord Lucan manner ment methinks Miscellanies Muses Mycena nature never numbers obliged observed opinion Ovid papers pastoral pause person pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's Literary Correspondence praise Pray Priam printed published Quintilian received rest rhyme Sappho sense shew sincerity sort Statius syllable talk Tatler tell thing thought tion told town translation true truth Tycho Brahe vanity verses Versification Virgil WILLIAM TRUMBULL wish words writ write Wycherley young
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302. oldal - The Muse, disgusted at an age and clime Barren of every glorious theme. In distant lands now waits a better time Producing subjects worthy fame : In happy climes where from the genial sun And virgin earth such scenes ensue, The force of art by nature seems outdone, And fancied beauties by the true : In happy climes the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools...
255. oldal - Hark! they whisper; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?
77. oldal - That changed through all, and yet in all the same. Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns As the rapt seraph that adores and burns : To 'him no high, no low, no great, no small...
302. oldal - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. Not such as Europe breeds in her decay ; Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heav'nly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung.
77. oldal - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same; Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent!
246. oldal - I would flatter myself into a good opinion of my own way of living : Plutarch just now told me, that it is in human life as in a game at tables...
255. oldal - ... the world recedes it disappears heaven opens on my eyes my ears with sounds seraphic ring lend lend your wings i mount i fly o grave where is thy victory o death where is thy sting.
73. oldal - It is not enough that nothing offends the Ear, but a good Poet will adapt the very Sounds, as well as Words, to the things he treats of. So that there is (if one may express it so) a Style of Sound. As in describing a gliding Stream, the Numbers shou'd run easy and flowing; in describing a rough Torrent or Deluge, sonorous and swelling, and so of the rest.
265. oldal - outsteps the modesty of nature/' nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity that he can be hardly...
328. oldal - Sir, I am much obliged to you : if you can dine upon a piece of beef together with a slice of pudding ?" — " Mr. Lintot, I do not say but Mr. Pope, if he would condescend to advise with men of learning." — " Sir, the pudding is upon the table, if you please to go in.