The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and prose

Alexander Pope

J. and P. Knapton, 1752

Conteúdo

• IMITATIONS: 22
• Ode I of Horace: 31
• Ode IX of Horace: 37
• lation of Fresnoys art of Painting: 45
• To the ſame on her leaving the town ofter: 53
• Verbatim from Boileau: 63
• To Mr John Moore author of the celebrated: 71
• To Mrs B on her birthday 79 To Mrs B on her birthday: 81
• On the Hon Simon Harcourt only: 88
• iniufterabbey 1723: 94
• minſterabbey: 95
• On EDMUND Duke of Buckingham: 101
• Martinus Scriblerus Megi Bádrs or the: 197
• Of the true Genius for the Profund and: 206
• Of the Profund when it conſiſts in: 213
• Of the Profund confiſting in the circumſtances: 219
• Of the magnifying: 233
• Of Expreſſion and the ſeveral Sorts of Style: 241
• A Project for the Advancement of the Bo: 251
• VIRGILIUS RESTAURATUS five MARTINI: 271
• A Specimen of SCRIBLERUSs Reports Stradling: 281
• MEMOIRS of P P clerk of this pariſa: 301
• Guardians: 308
• Preface to Homers Iliad: 357
• Preface to the Works of Shakeſpear: 394

Passagens mais conhecidas

Página 94 - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud and great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, 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 lived, and that he died.

Página 327 - Locke takes notice of a mother who permitted them to her children, but rewarded or punished them as they treated them well or ill. This was no other than entering them betimes into a daily exercise of humanity, and improving their very diversion to a virtue.

Página 370 - Odyssey above the ^Eneis; as that the hero is a wiser man, and the action of the one more beneficial to his country than that of the other; or else they blame him for not doing what he never...

Página 403 - Prose from verse they did not know, and they accordingly printed one for the other throughout the volume.

Página 393 - Hamlet, enlarged to almost as much again as at first, and many others. I believe the common opinion of his want of learning proceeded from no better ground. This, too, might be thought a praise by some, and to this his errors have as injudiciously been ascribed by others.

Página 357 - ... evidently, affeCt us not in proportion to thofe of Homer. His characters of valour are much alike...

Página 355 - This is a field in which no succeeding poets could dispute with Homer; and whatever commendations have been allowed them on this head, are by no means for their invention in having enlarged his circle, but for their judgment in having contracted it. For when the mode of learning changed in following ages, and...

Página 409 - I will conclude by saying of Shakespeare, 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 finished and regular, as upon an ancient majestic piece of Gothic architecture, compared with a neat modern building.

Página 397 - Vati noceat . But however this contention might be carried on by the Partizans on either side, I cannot help thinking these two great Poets were good friends, and lived on amicable terms and in offices of society with each other.

Página 49 - Love, rais'd on beauty, will like that decay, Our hearts may bear its slender...

Informações bibliográficas

• Título: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and prose; Volume 6 de The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester)
• Autor: Alexander Pope
• Editora: J. and P. Knapton, 1752
• Original de: Biblioteca Pública de Nova York
• Digitalizado: 27 out. 2005