With the Wits: Shelburne Essays, Tenth SeriesHoughton Mifflin, 1919 - 311 páginas |
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Página viii
... Pope's lines , " Let modest Foster , if he will , excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well . " Then asked the Doctor , " Why did Pope say this ? " JOHNSON : " Sir , he hoped it would vex somebody . " It is a simple truth that the ...
... Pope's lines , " Let modest Foster , if he will , excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well . " Then asked the Doctor , " Why did Pope say this ? " JOHNSON : " Sir , he hoped it would vex somebody . " It is a simple truth that the ...
Página ix
... Pope and Swift as in itself the highest form of criticism . Boileau , for example , has the keenest satire , and at the same time shows very little malice , such as we find it among the wits of Queen Anne . The satire of Horace is ge ...
... Pope and Swift as in itself the highest form of criticism . Boileau , for example , has the keenest satire , and at the same time shows very little malice , such as we find it among the wits of Queen Anne . The satire of Horace is ge ...
Página xi
... Pope's day was met to settle the affairs of the world and to establish peace and good will among men ; sup- pose then that Pope should read in a most respect- able magazine such comment as this on the se- cret proceedings of the guiding ...
... Pope's day was met to settle the affairs of the world and to establish peace and good will among men ; sup- pose then that Pope should read in a most respect- able magazine such comment as this on the se- cret proceedings of the guiding ...
Página xi
... Pope's day was met to settle the affairs of the world and to establish peace and good will among men ; sup- pose then that Pope should read in a most respect- able magazine such comment as this on the se- cret proceedings of the guiding ...
... Pope's day was met to settle the affairs of the world and to establish peace and good will among men ; sup- pose then that Pope should read in a most respect- able magazine such comment as this on the se- cret proceedings of the guiding ...
Página 87
... Pope . I would not place the êthos of this new satire too high ; it retained too much of the Restoration one - sidedness , and re- stored too little of the more balanced view of hu- man nature which was lost lost for how long a time ...
... Pope . I would not place the êthos of this new satire too high ; it retained too much of the Restoration one - sidedness , and re- stored too little of the more balanced view of hu- man nature which was lost lost for how long a time ...
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