An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...W.J. and J. Richardson, 1806 - 8 pagina's |
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Pagina i
... I revere the memory of POPE , I re- spect and honour his abilities ; but I do not think him at the head of his profeffion . In other words , in that species of poetry wherein VOL . I. A POPE POPE excelled , he is fuperior to all mankind :
... I revere the memory of POPE , I re- spect and honour his abilities ; but I do not think him at the head of his profeffion . In other words , in that species of poetry wherein VOL . I. A POPE POPE excelled , he is fuperior to all mankind :
Pagina ii
... species of poetry is not the moft excellent one of the art . We do not , it should seem , sufficiently at- tend to the difference there is betwixt a MAN OF WIT , a MAN OF SENSE , and a TRUE POET . Donne and Swift were undoubtedly men of ...
... species of poetry is not the moft excellent one of the art . We do not , it should seem , sufficiently at- tend to the difference there is betwixt a MAN OF WIT , a MAN OF SENSE , and a TRUE POET . Donne and Swift were undoubtedly men of ...
Pagina 3
... species of composition , lived and wrote in Sicily . The climate of Sicily was delicious , and the face of the country various and beautiful : its vallies and its precipices , its grottos and cascades , were swEETLY INTERCHANGED , and ...
... species of composition , lived and wrote in Sicily . The climate of Sicily was delicious , and the face of the country various and beautiful : its vallies and its precipices , its grottos and cascades , were swEETLY INTERCHANGED , and ...
Pagina 40
... species of composition . Let the reader , therefore , par- don a digression , if such it be , on his merits and character , " Thomson was blessed with a strong and copious fancy ; he hath enriched poetry with a variety of new and ...
... species of composition . Let the reader , therefore , par- don a digression , if such it be , on his merits and character , " Thomson was blessed with a strong and copious fancy ; he hath enriched poetry with a variety of new and ...
Pagina 49
... species ; and that , if their principles lead them to condemn Thom- son , they must also condemn the Georgics of Virgil ; and the greatest part of the noblest descriptive VOL . I. E descriptive poem extant , I mean that of Lucre- tius ...
... species ; and that , if their principles lead them to condemn Thom- son , they must also condemn the Georgics of Virgil ; and the greatest part of the noblest descriptive VOL . I. E descriptive poem extant , I mean that of Lucre- tius ...
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Pagina 7 - Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me, I fondly dream ! Had ye been there...
Pagina 134 - Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky, Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way, Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes.
Pagina 145 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Pagina 231 - Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine, (The victor cried) the glorious prize is mine ! While fish in streams, or birds delight in air, Or in a coach and six the British fair, As long as Atalantis shall be read...
Pagina 313 - But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green ; Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Pagina 219 - water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still on earth to roam. The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air.
Pagina 148 - Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek, We write in sand, our language grows, And like the tide our work o'erflows.
Pagina 220 - Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face ; Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes. The busy sylphs surround their darling care, These set the head, and those divide the hair, Some fold the sleeve, whilst others plait the gown ; And Betty's prais'd for labours not her own. CANTO II. NOT with more glories, in th...
Pagina 223 - On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Pagina 130 - From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which without passing thro' the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains.