An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-5 van 21
Pagina 42
... beauty in distress ; you will be disappointed . Wit on the present occafion is to be preferred to tenderness ; the babe in her eye is faid to resemble Phaeton so much , That heav'n the threat'ned world to spare , Thought fit to drown ...
... beauty in distress ; you will be disappointed . Wit on the present occafion is to be preferred to tenderness ; the babe in her eye is faid to resemble Phaeton so much , That heav'n the threat'ned world to spare , Thought fit to drown ...
Pagina 52
... beauty of Gay's Trivia , a subject Swift defired him to write upon , and for which he furnished him with many hints . The character of Swift has been scrutinized in so many late writings , that it is super- fluous to enter upon it ...
... beauty of Gay's Trivia , a subject Swift defired him to write upon , and for which he furnished him with many hints . The character of Swift has been scrutinized in so many late writings , that it is super- fluous to enter upon it ...
Pagina 59
... beauty in this Essay be uncommonly tran- scendent and peculiar , it is , BREVITY OF DICTION ; which , in a few instances , and those pardonable , has occasioned obscurity . It is hardly to be imagined how much sense , how much thinking ...
... beauty in this Essay be uncommonly tran- scendent and peculiar , it is , BREVITY OF DICTION ; which , in a few instances , and those pardonable , has occasioned obscurity . It is hardly to be imagined how much sense , how much thinking ...
Pagina 61
... beauty ; That as all parts in an animal are not eyes , and as in a city , comedy , or picture , all ranks , characters , and colours , are not equal or alike ; even so , excesses , and con- trary qualities , contribute to the proportion ...
... beauty ; That as all parts in an animal are not eyes , and as in a city , comedy , or picture , all ranks , characters , and colours , are not equal or alike ; even so , excesses , and con- trary qualities , contribute to the proportion ...
Pagina 88
... beauty , Hence when lightning fires The arch of heav'n , and thunders rock the ground ; When furious whirlwinds rend the howling air , And ocean groaning from the lowest bed , Heaves his tempestuous billows to the sky ; Amid the mighty ...
... beauty , Hence when lightning fires The arch of heav'n , and thunders rock the ground ; When furious whirlwinds rend the howling air , And ocean groaning from the lowest bed , Heaves his tempestuous billows to the sky ; Amid the mighty ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
abſurd Adamo Addiſon addreſſed Æneid almoſt alſo anſwered beauty becauſe beſt Biſhop Boileau Bolingbroke cauſe character circumſtance Demetrius Phalereus deſcription deſign Dryden Dunciad elegant Engliſh epiſtle Eſſay eſt Euripides excellent expreſſed faid fame fatire finiſhed firſt fome genius Hiſtory Horace houſe humour illuſtrate imitation inſtance intereſting juſt laſt letter lines Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lucretius malè maſter Milton moſt muſe muſt nature obſerved occafion paffion paſſage paſſion perſon philoſopher piece pleaſing pleaſure poem poet poetry POPE Pope's preſent publiſhed purpoſe Quintilian raiſe reaſon repreſented reſt ſaid ſame ſays ſcarce SCENA ſcene ſcience ſecond ſee ſeems ſeen ſenſe ſenſible ſentiment ſerve ſeveral ſhade ſhall ſhe ſhewed ſhould ſome ſon ſpeak ſpecies ſpirit ſtate Statius ſtill ſtory ſtriking ſtrong ſtudy ſtyle ſubject ſuch ſuperior ſuppoſed Swift taſte theſe thoſe tranflation univerſe uſed verſe Virgil Voltaire whoſe words writer δε