The Works of Alexander Pope: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... Homer's Mice , Or Gods to fave them in a trice ! ( It was by Providence they think , For your damn'd Stucco has no chink . ) · " An't please your Honour , quoth the Peafant , " This fame Deffert is not fo pleasant : " Give me again my ...
... Homer's Mice , Or Gods to fave them in a trice ! ( It was by Providence they think , For your damn'd Stucco has no chink . ) · " An't please your Honour , quoth the Peafant , " This fame Deffert is not fo pleasant : " Give me again my ...
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... Homer * . CHA P. II . The Speech of Cornelius over his Son , at the Hour of his Birth . N O fooner was the cry of the Infant heard , but the old gentleman rushed into the room , and fnatching it in his arms , examined every limb with ...
... Homer * . CHA P. II . The Speech of Cornelius over his Son , at the Hour of his Birth . N O fooner was the cry of the Infant heard , but the old gentleman rushed into the room , and fnatching it in his arms , examined every limb with ...
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... Homer , that in the Cellar of Jupiter are two " barrels , the one of good , the other of evil , which " he never beftows on Mortals feparately , but con- " ftantly mingles them together . Thus at the fame " time hath Heaven bleffed me ...
... Homer , that in the Cellar of Jupiter are two " barrels , the one of good , the other of evil , which " he never beftows on Mortals feparately , but con- " ftantly mingles them together . Thus at the fame " time hath Heaven bleffed me ...
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... Homer . This indeed gave the Child a great looseness , but he was not concerned at it , in the opinion that whatever harm it might do his body , would be amply recompenfed by the improvements of his underftanding . But from thenceforth ...
... Homer . This indeed gave the Child a great looseness , but he was not concerned at it , in the opinion that whatever harm it might do his body , would be amply recompenfed by the improvements of his underftanding . But from thenceforth ...
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... Homer . But what moft conduced to his eafy at- tainment of this Language , was his love of Gin- ger - bread ; which his Father obferving , caufed it to be ftampt with the Letters of the Greek Alpha- bet ; and the child the very first ...
... Homer . But what moft conduced to his eafy at- tainment of this Language , was his love of Gin- ger - bread ; which his Father obferving , caufed it to be ftampt with the Letters of the Greek Alpha- bet ; and the child the very first ...
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Страница 290 - Homer makes us hearers, and Virgil leaves us readers. If in the next place we take a view of the sentiments, the same presiding faculty is eminent in the sublimity and spirit of his thoughts. Longinus has given his opinion, that it was in this part Homer principally excelled.
Страница 81 - Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
Страница 196 - Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy!
Страница 280 - I know an eminent cook, who beautified his country seat with a coronation dinner in greens ; where you see the champion flourishing on horseback at one end of the table, and the queen in perpetual youth at the other.
Страница 309 - ... to consider him attentively in comparison with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns.
Страница 284 - 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 327 - Prose from verse they did not know, and they accordingly printed one for the other throughout the volume.
Страница 288 - Every one has something so singularly his own, that no painter could have distinguished them more by their features, than the poet has by their manners.
Страница 289 - Idomeneus a plain, direct soldier ; in Sarpedon, a gallant and generous one. Nor is this judicious and...
Страница 331 - 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...