The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... white , the Carpet red : 195 The Guests withdrawn had left the Treat , And down the Mice fate , tête à téte . Our Courtier walks from difh to dish , Taftes for his Friend of Fowl and Fish ; Tells all their names , lays down the law ...
... white , the Carpet red : 195 The Guests withdrawn had left the Treat , And down the Mice fate , tête à téte . Our Courtier walks from difh to dish , Taftes for his Friend of Fowl and Fish ; Tells all their names , lays down the law ...
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... white , he took it at first fight for a Swan , and was concluding his fon would be a Poet : but on a nearer view , he perceived it to be speckled with black , in the form of letters ; and that it was indeed a Paper kite which had broke ...
... white , he took it at first fight for a Swan , and was concluding his fon would be a Poet : but on a nearer view , he perceived it to be speckled with black , in the form of letters ; and that it was indeed a Paper kite which had broke ...
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... many Creatures which he never found fince in any Au- thor , such as White Lions , Golden Dragons , & c . He once thought the fame of Green Men , but had fince found them mentioned by Kercherus , and ve- rified fince 112 MEMOIRS OF.
... many Creatures which he never found fince in any Au- thor , such as White Lions , Golden Dragons , & c . He once thought the fame of Green Men , but had fince found them mentioned by Kercherus , and ve- rified fince 112 MEMOIRS OF.
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... white fpeck in the neck , lame of one leg , belongs to fuch a Lady . Greyhound , genus ; mouse - colour'd , etc. differentia ; lame of one leg , accidens ; belongs to fuch a Lady , pro- prium . Though I'm afraid I have tranfgreffed upon ...
... white fpeck in the neck , lame of one leg , belongs to fuch a Lady . Greyhound , genus ; mouse - colour'd , etc. differentia ; lame of one leg , accidens ; belongs to fuch a Lady , pro- prium . Though I'm afraid I have tranfgreffed upon ...
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... white Bears . In Phyfiognomy , his penetration is such , that from the Picture only of any person , he can write his Life ; and from the features of the Parents , draw the Portrait of any Child that is to be born . Nor hath he been fo ...
... white Bears . In Phyfiognomy , his penetration is such , that from the Picture only of any person , he can write his Life ; and from the features of the Parents , draw the Portrait of any Child that is to be born . Nor hath he been fo ...
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Страница 299 - If a council be called, or a battle fought, you are not coldly informed of what was said or done as from a third person; the reader is hurried out of himself by the force of the poet's imagination, and turns in one place to a hearer, in another to a spectator.
Страница 323 - However, had he translated the whole work, I would no more have attempted Homer after him than Virgil, his Version of whom (notwithstanding some human errors) is the most noble and spirited translation I know in any language.
Страница 299 - If some things are too luxuriant it is owing to the richness of the soil; and if others are not arrived to perfection or maturity, it is only because they are overrun and oppressed by those of a stronger nature.
Страница 44 - ... twixt reading and Bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary Tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon; Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire, Hum half a tune, tell stories to the squire; Up to her godly garret after sev'n, There starve and pray, for that's the way to heav'n.
Страница 307 - Aristotle had reason to say, he was the only poet who had found out living words ; there are in him more daring figures and metaphors than in any good author whatever. An arrow is impatient to be on the wing, a weapon thirsts to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like.
Страница 346 - I will conclude by saying of Shakespear, that with all his faults, and with all the irregularity of his drama, one may look upon his works, in comparison of those that are more...
Страница 339 - ... till after his death. The whole number of genuine plays, which we have been able to find printed in his lifetime, amounts but to eleven.
Страница 12 - And that they ne'er consider'd yet. ' Good Mr. Dean, go change your gown, Let my lord know you're come to town.
Страница 293 - ... masters, being wholly unconfined, and painting at pleasure, may be thought to have given a full idea of what they esteemed most excellent in this way. These (one may observe) consist entirely of the useful part of horticulture, fruit-trees, herbs, water, &c.