Category: Poetry
INTRODUCTION: That it is as great a fault to judge ill, as to write ill, and a more dangerous one to the public, ver. 1--That a true taste is as rare to be found as a true genius, ver. 9 to 18--That most men are born with some taste, but spoiled by false education, ver. 19 to...
Of the Limits of Human Reason. Of the Use of Learning. Of the Use of Wit. Of the Knowledge and Characters of Men. Of the Particular Characters of Women. Of the Principles and Us...
3. PART III. VER. 560, &C.Rules for the conduct of manners in a critic--1. Candour, ver. 563--Modesty, ver. 566--Good breeding, ver. 572--Sincerity and freedom of advice, ver. 578--2. When one's counsel...
11. CANTO II.But anxious cares the pensive nymph oppressed, And secret passions laboured in her breast. Not youthful kings in battle seized alive, Not scornful virgins who their charms survi...
15. Book xv., which our poet doubtless had in view through this wholeThe lines from ver. 161 to 168 are parenthetical, and Pope now goes back to the primitive age in which uncorrupted man associated freely with the beasts, and profited by their t...
4. Letter 1. "Proving that Boileau did not call his Lutrin, PoemeHéroi-Comique, that Bossu does not say [anything of] the machines, and that Butler [wrote][327] the notes to his own Hudibras." Letter 2. "Mr. Dennis's positive word that the Ra...
14. Book ii. chap. 12 of Montaigne's Essays.[1308] The geometric, or garden-spider, makes a web of concentric circles, but the house-spider, which used to have credit for weaving a web of parallel longitudinal lines cross...
7. CANTO III.Close by those meads, for ever crowned with flow'rs,[417] Where Thames with pride surveys his rising tow'rs, There stands a structure of majestic frame, Which from the neighb'ri...
8. CANTO IV.But anxious cares the pensive nymph oppressed,[456] And secret passions laboured in her breast. Not youthful kings in battle seized alive, Not scornful virgins who their charms...
9. CANTO V.She said: the pitying audience melt in tears, But Fate and Jove had stopped the baron's ears.[491] In vain Thalestris with reproach assails, For who can move when fair Belinda f...
5. CANTO I.What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things, I sing--This verse to Caryll,[367] Muse! is due: This, ev'n Belinda may vouchsafe t...
6. CANTO II.Not with more glories, in th' ethereal plain, The sun first rises o'er the purpled main, Than, issuing forth, the rival of his beams[393] Launched on the bosom of the silver Tha...
10. CANTO I.What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty quarrels rise from trivial things, I sing--This verse to C----l, Muse! is due: This, ev'n Belinda may vouchsafe to vie...
1. PART I.INTRODUCTION: That it is as great a fault to judge ill, as to write ill, and a more dangerous one to the public, ver. 1--That a true taste is as rare to be found as a true geniu...
2. PART II. VER. 201, &C.Causes hindering a true judgment--1. Pride, ver. 208--2. Imperfect learning, ver. 215--3. Judging by parts, and not by the whole, ver. 233 to 288--Critics in wit, language, vers...
12. BOOK I.--OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN.