This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ... Dryden for the translator, it need shrink from no other. There is something exceedingly tender and beautiful in the sound of the concluding lines: " If ever chance two wandering lovers brings To Paraclete's white walls and silver springs," &c. The Essay on Man is not Pope's best work. It is a theory ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ... Dryden for the translator, it need shrink from no other. There is something exceedingly tender and beautiful in the sound of the concluding lines: " If ever chance two wandering lovers brings To Paraclete's white walls and silver springs," &c. The Essay on Man is not Pope's best work. It is a theory which Bolingbroke is supposed to have given him, and which he expanded into verse. But " he spins the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." All that he says, " the very words, and to the self-same tune," would prove just as well that whatever is is wrong, as that whatever is is right. The Dunciad has splendid passages, but in general it is dull, heavy, and mechanical. The sarcasm already quoted on Settle, the Lord Mayor's poet (for at that time there was a city, as well as a court, poet, ) " Now night descending, the proud scene is o'er, But lives in Settle's numbers one day more,"-- is the finest inversion of immortality conceivable. It is even better than his serious apostrophe to the great heirs of glory, the triumphant bards of antiquity! The finest burst of severe moral invective in all Pope is the prophetical conclusion of the epilogue to the Satires: " Virtue may chuse the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me; Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing. Vice is undone, if she forgets her birth, And stoops from angels to the dregs of earth. But 'tis the fall degrades her to a whore: Let greatness own her, and she's mean no more. Her birth, her beauty, crowds and courts confess, Chaste matrons praise her, and grave bishops bless; In golden chains the willing world she draws, And hers the gospel is, and hers the laws; Mounts the tribunal, lifts her...
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