This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1769 Excerpt: ...been penned and made public before the former, on an occasion which will be explained hereafter. The first of these epistles is penned with great ease and vivacity. Mr. Pope, nevertheless somewhere says, that it cost him a great deal of labour and attention; and he has been heard to declare, in private conversation, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1769 Excerpt: ...been penned and made public before the former, on an occasion which will be explained hereafter. The first of these epistles is penned with great ease and vivacity. Mr. Pope, nevertheless somewhere says, that it cost him a great deal of labour and attention; and he has been heard to declare, in private conversation, that what he wrote fastest, always pleased most. This epistle, therefore, having been laboured into ease, may be among the reasons why it is not so pleasing, at least to the writer of these sheets, as those which precede it. It is true, we meet with many sallies of keen wit, and strokes of fine poetry in it; but they are more thinly scattered than in the foregoing essays. At the fame time, it would be difficult to point out any glaring blemishes: in short, compared with his other works, it has, some few inimitable passages excepted, too much of the mediocre in it: and it must necessarily please less now than at the time of its first publication, as most of the facts and characters recorded in it, and which then made it interesting, have been long since forgotten. An instance of which 'he gave, not only in the Rape of the Lock, but in the Poem on the Characters of Women, just now spolc-n of; which he wrote at once in a heat, not of malice or resentment, but of pure, though strong, poetical fire: And, inJeed, notwithstanding (he objections above made to it, it well deserved the distinguisticd reception it metVith. U 3 Never Nevertheless, there is great merit in the fqU lowing lines of this epistle, which is by way of dialogue between our Poet and Lord Bathurst f- to whom it is addressed, wherein our author shews, by a witty transposition, that the utmost which wealth can bestow is but the power of diversifying the' three necessaries of life i...
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