The Dunciad: With Notes Variorum, and the Prolegomena of Scriblerus. Written in the Year, 1727Lawton Gilliver, 1735 - 263 頁 |
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... these authors had been ( doubtless very wifely ) the first Aggreffors . They had try'd till they were weary , what was to be got by railing at each other : no body was either concern'd , or furpriz'd , if this or that fcribler was prov ...
... these authors had been ( doubtless very wifely ) the first Aggreffors . They had try'd till they were weary , what was to be got by railing at each other : no body was either concern'd , or furpriz'd , if this or that fcribler was prov ...
第 11 頁
... it was not his capacity or writings ( which we ever thought the leaft valuable part of his character ) but the honoft , open , and beneficent man , that we moft esteem'd efteem'd and lov'd in him . Now if what these to the PUBLISHER . II.
... it was not his capacity or writings ( which we ever thought the leaft valuable part of his character ) but the honoft , open , and beneficent man , that we moft esteem'd efteem'd and lov'd in him . Now if what these to the PUBLISHER . II.
第 12 頁
... these people fay were believ'd , I must appear to all my , friends either a fool or a knave , either impos'd on my felf , or impofing on them : fo that I am as much interested in the confutation of thefe ca- lumnies , as he is himself ...
... these people fay were believ'd , I must appear to all my , friends either a fool or a knave , either impos'd on my felf , or impofing on them : fo that I am as much interested in the confutation of thefe ca- lumnies , as he is himself ...
第 13 頁
... these fort of au- thors are Poor . That might be pleaded as an ex- cufe at the Old Baily , for leffer crimes than De- famation , ( for ' tis the cafe of almost all who are try'd there ) but fure it can be none , for who will pretend ...
... these fort of au- thors are Poor . That might be pleaded as an ex- cufe at the Old Baily , for leffer crimes than De- famation , ( for ' tis the cafe of almost all who are try'd there ) but fure it can be none , for who will pretend ...
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... these people , than any they have made ufe of . If Obfcurity or Poverty were to exempt a man from satire , much more should Folly or Dulness , which are still more involuntary , nay . as much fo as perfonal Deformity . But even this ...
... these people , than any they have made ufe of . If Obfcurity or Poverty were to exempt a man from satire , much more should Folly or Dulness , which are still more involuntary , nay . as much fo as perfonal Deformity . But even this ...
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第 220 頁 - See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly! In vain! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die, Religion blushing veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
第 37 頁 - And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so very well enlarged upon in the preface to his works, that wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn.
第 98 頁 - For thee we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With all such reading as was never read : For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, goddess, and about it : So spins the silkworm small its slender store, And labours till it clouds itself all o'er.
第 228 頁 - ... poets were ranged in classes, to which were prefixed almost all the letters of the alphabet (the greatest part of them at random) ; but such...
第 203 頁 - And ten-horn'd fiends and giants rush to war. Hell rises, Heaven descends, and dance on earth : Gods, imps, and monsters, music, rage, and mirth, A fire, a jig, a battle, and a ball, Till one wide conflagration swallows all.
第 201 頁 - Oh, great restorer of the good old stage, Preacher at once, and zany of thy age...
第 37 頁 - As for those which are the most known, and the most received, they are placed in so beautiful a light, and illustrated with such apt allusions, that they have in them all the graces of novelty, and make the reader, who was before acquainted with them, still more convinced of their truth and solidity.
第 80 頁 - I look for streams immortaliz'd in song. That lost in silence and oblivion lie, (Dumb are their fountains and their channels dry), Yet run for ever by the muse's skill, And in the smooth description murmur still.
第 185 頁 - As Berecynthia, while her offspring vie In homage to the mother of the sky, Surveys around her, in the...