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...Excerpt: It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representative of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedicate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned commentator of Dante....

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...- tive of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedi- cate this short portion of a lon... ...o say?” answered Hulot. “Is this the way you receive me when I come like a Pope with my hands full of Indulgences? —Well, your husband will never be a...

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................. 193 DRYDEN?S HEXASTICH............................................................................................................ 198 POPE?S RETORT UPON ADDISON .......................................................................................... 201...

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......................................................................... 198 POPE’S RETORT UPON ADDISON ................................................... ...master of ped- antry! Get down, Schlosser, this moment; or let me get out. Pope, by far the most important writer, English or Conti- nental, of his ow... ... by name as unwor- thy of notice. The three works, selected as the gems of Pope’s collection, are the ‘Essay on Criticism,’ the ‘Rape of the Lock,’ an... ... which (with Dr. Johnson’s leave) is the feeblest and least interesting of Pope’s writings, being substantially a mere versification, like a met- rica... ...any cases; but not here. Imagine this Hun coming down, sword in hand, upon Pope and his Rosicrucian light troops, levying chout upon Sir Plume, and fl... ..., levying chout upon Sir Plume, and fluttering the dove-cot of the Sylphs. Pope’s ‘duty it was,’ says this demoniac, to ‘scourge the follies of good s... ...e claims of duty? Possibly; but it would not have satisfied Schlosser. And Pope’s guilt consists in having made his poem an idol or succession of pict... ...from a playful machin- ery, instead of converting it into a bloody satire. Pope, how- ever, did not shrink from such assaults on the aristocracy, if t... ...ces, and can imagine his countryman Zacharia equal to a com- petition with Pope. But this it may be right to add, that the ‘Rape of the Lock’ was not ...

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..., at Befort, Usez, Perpignan, at Nismes, and that incurable Avignon of the Pope’s: a continual crackling and sputter- ing of riots from the whole face... ...he Earth that has not the indubitablest right to excommunicate Talleyrand. Pope Pius has right and might, in his way. But truly so likewise has Father... ...tendant victims, mounts up in flame, and sinks down in ashes; a decomposed Pope: and right or might, among all the parties, has better or worse accomp... ...olish old rhyming Rene, the last Sovereign of Provence, bequeath it to the Pope and Gold Tiara, not rather to Louis Eleventh with the Leaden Virgin in... ...uis Eleventh with the Leaden Virgin in his hatband? For good and for evil! Popes, Anti-popes, with their pomp, have dwelt in that Castle of Avignon ri... ...Avignon and the Comtat were incorporated with France, and His Holiness the Pope should have what indemnity was reasonable. And so hereby all is amnest...

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...tate of all, especially the monastic orders, who owned no superior but the Pope, and between the two rivals could avoid supervision altogether. Such m... ... must not bear.’ ‘Ah! but the people will give it; and our Holy Father the Pope, he will put thee into the canon of saints. Only pity that I cannot li... ..., and bearing the insignia of every rank and dignity that earth presented. Popes were there, with triple crown and keys, and fanned by peacock tails; ... ... would allow a sou to pass out of their grasp for so absurd a purpose; the Pope would give no license—above all to a vain girl, who had helped a wife ...

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...ssed, at Bale, younger, in Ham. POMPIGNAN, President of National Assembly. POPE PIUS VI., excommunicates Talleyrand, his effigy burned. PRAIRIAL First... ...to assassinate Robespierre, guillotined. RENE, King, bequeathed Avignon to Pope. RENNES, riot in. RENWICK, last of Cameronians. REPAIRE, Tardivet du, ... ...burial of. ST. HURUGE, Marquis, bull-voice, imprisoned, at Versailles, and Pope’s effigy, at Jacobins, on King’s trial. ST. JUST in National Conventio...

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...inue the same metaphor, consists in the cookery of the author; for, as Mr. Pope tells us— True wit is nature to advantage drest; What oft ... ... too well entertained to be subject to the least drowsiness. He is, as Mr. Pope observes, Sleepless himself to give his readers sleep. To say t... ...ng. Chapter 11 In which a simile in Mr. Pope’s period of a mile introduces as bloody a battle as can possibly be fo... ...he proposal’s coming from the parent of either side. King Alcinous, in Mr. Pope’s Odyssey, offers his daughter to Ulysses. I need not caution so polit... ...u The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding 278 never read Pope’s Homer; who, I remember, now the gentle man mentions it, compares th... ...d in defence of Homer’s miracles; and it is perhaps a defence; not, as Mr. Pope would have it, because Ulysses told a set of foolish lies to the Phaea... ...le torn; but I have a great part of Stowe’s Chronicle; the sixth volume of Pope’s Homer; the third volume of the Spec tator; the second volume of Ech... ...; for no real security can ever be found against the persecuting spirit of Popery, when armed with power, except the depriving it of that power, as wo...

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...inding that he is at Naples has turned Roman-Catholic, obtained one of the Pope’s Bulls for annulling his 1st Marriage and has since actually married ...

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...d mounted following it and preceding it. But ’twas in the height of the No-Popery cry; the folks in the village and the neighboring town were scared b... ...rwards in the habit of designating her. The country was then in a great No-Popery fervor; her ladyship’s known conversion, and her husband’s, the prie... ...eering round the coach, bawling out “The Bishops for ever!” “Down with the Pope!” “No Popery! no Popery! Jezebel, Jezebel!” so that my lord began to l... ... gate, through which the coach had just rolled, another cry begins, of “No Popery—no Papists!” My lord turns round and faces them once more. “God save... ...oes not speak of a woman as of a slave, and scorn and use her as such. Mr. Pope, Mr. Congreve, Mr. Addison, Mr. Gay, every one of ‘em, sing in this ke...

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... whom I had to leave him at Cambridge, preaches to him of the perdition of Pope and Papists.” “If his mother were indeed a concealed Papist,” said Su-... ... mayhap not. I believe myself she would do anything short of disowning her Popery to get out of prison; but as matters stand I doubt me whether Cis—” ... ...uredly not. Moreover, what could she do with the poor child?” “Rear her in Popery,” exclaimed Susan, to whom the word was terrible. “Y ea, and make he... ...to com- prehend them, but they agreed in nothing but in their abuse of the Pope. At least so it seemed to my poor weak mind. But you are satisfied, ma... ...on- trived to borrow the picture under colour of getting it blessed by the Pope’s agent, and lent it to Mr. Secretary W alsingham, by whom it was priv... ...l that good might come, thinking Mary’s death alone could ensure them from Pope and Spaniard; but surely they descended into a lower depth of iniquity... ...ony Babington were in league to bring hither the Spaniards and restore the Pope, I have no manner of doubt on the word of both, but then they deem it—... ...n. He himself, being then, as he confessed, led astray by the delusions of Popery, had much commerce with the Queen’s party, and had learnt from some ...

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...d an odd miscellany of books—Shaw and Swinburne, Tom Jones, Fabian Essays, Pope and Dumas, 27 H. G . Wells cheek by jowl. Constance Widgett’s abundan...

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...er, who must have put on 179 Little Dorrit – Book Two caps as high as the Pope’s Mitre, and have performed the mysteries of Alchemists in a copper-sa...

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...son, and modern Russia. Since its publication, it has been acclaimed all over the world by thinkers as diverse as Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, and Pope Benedict XVI as one of the supreme achievements in literature....

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... use of the compara tively modern edition, 4to 1663. DRAMATIS PERSONAE. THE POPE. THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY. RAYMOND, king of Hungary. DUKE OF SAXONY. B... ...ingdoms of the earth; And, as I guess, will first arrive at Rome, To see the Pope and manner of his court, And take some part of holy Peter’s feast, T... ...I have, my Faustus; and, for proof thereof, This is the goodly palace of the Pope; And, ‘cause we are no common guests, I choose his privy chamber for... ...erefore, let’s away. MEPHIST . Nay , stay, my Faustus: I know you’ d see the Pope, And take some part of holy Peter’s feast, The which, in state and h... ...d high solemnity, This day, is held through Rome and Italy, In honour of the Pope’s triumphant victory. FAUSTUS. Sweet Mephistophilis, thou pleasest m... ...ne eye I there beheld. Then in this show let me an actor be, That this proud Pope may Faustus’ cunning see. MEPHIST. Let it be so, my Faustus. But, fi... ...hen devise what best contents thy mind, By cunning in thine art to cross the Pope, Doctor Faustus – Marlowe 33 Or dash the pride of this solemnity; ... ...ers, some the pillars; MONKS and FRIARS, singing their procession; then the POPE, RAYMOND king of Hungary, the ARCHBISHOP OF RHEIMS, BRUNO led in ch... ...g of Hungary, the ARCHBISHOP OF RHEIMS, BRUNO led in chains, and ATTENDANTS. POPE. Cast down our footstool. RAYMOND. Saxon Bruno, stoop, Whilst on thy...

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...ed freely to distribute English wealth and En glish lands among them. The Pope sent to Normandy a consecrated banner, and a ring containing a hair wh... ...tes, which were aggra vated by there being in Rome at that time two rival Popes; each of whom declared he was the only real original infallible Pope,... ... promise, bribe, and buy again; and by those means, and by the help of the Pope, who exerted himself to save more bloodshed, and by solemnly declaring... ...e), he took a second wife— Adelais or Alice, a duke’s daugh ter, and the Pope’s niece. Having no more chil dren, however, he proposed to the Barons... ...ons, and drew lots with other fight ing men for their share of booty. The Pope (or Bishop of Rome), on King Stephen’s resisting his ambition, laid En... ...aving the power to refuse these things, no matter whether he were called a Pope or a Poulterer, would, of course, have the power of afflicting numbers... ...hat noth ing might be wanting to the miseries of King Stephen’s time, the Pope threw in this contri bution to the public store not very like the w... ...child of five years old. However, the war came to nothing at last, and the Pope made the two Kings friends again. Now, the clergy, in the troubles of ... ...t, denied the power of the court, and said he would refer his cause to the Pope. As he walked out of the hall, with the cross in his hand, some of tho...

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...ion of Himself into ev- ery generation. At bottom some belief in a kind of Pope! At bottom still better, belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he ... ...s of Norse Lore, at any rate, will give one no notion of it;—any more than Pope will of Homer. It is no square-built gloomy palace of black ashlar mar... ...of complete perfection, invests these two. They are canon- ized, though no Pope or Cardinals took hand in doing it! Such, in spite of every perverting... ...the era of “private judgment,” as they call it. By this revolt against the Pope, every man became his own Pope; and learnt, among other things, that h... ...his own Pope; and learnt, among other things, that he must never trust any Pope, or spiritual Hero-captain, any more! Whereby, is not spiritual union,... ...ot deny that Protestantism was a revolt against spiritual sover- eignties, Popes and much else. Nay I will grant that English Puritanism, revolt again... ...orld for us!—See, accordingly, was not Luther himself reverenced as a true Pope, or Spiritual Father, being verily such? Napoleon, from amid boundless... ...thing to see! Luther’s message was deposition and aboli- tion to all false Popes and Potentates, but life and strength, though afar off, to new genuin... ...rn to fact; cost what it might, that did behoove to be done. With spurious Popes, and Believers having no private judgment,—quacks pretend- ing to com...

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... that the matter was hushed up, out of consideration for Berkeley, who (as Pope remarked) had “every virtue under heaven:” else it was well known that... ...at billiards with Prester John, or to have had an affair of honor with the Pope. And, by the way, the Pope would be a very improper person to murder: ... ...urch. By her own internal schisms, by the abominable spectacle of a double Pope—so that no man, except through political bias, could even guess which ... ...ple now dined at two. So dined Addison for his last thirty years; so dined Pope, who was coeval with the revolution through his entire life. Precisely... ...er air like a com- ing storm some little time before. About the year 1740, Pope complains to a friend of Lady Suffolk’s dining so late as four. Young ... ...or a decayed poet was respectfully to “cut his stick, and retire.” Whether Pope ever put up with four o’clock dinners again, we have vainly sought to ... ...t 1780, or a little earlier; perhaps, therefore, just one generation after Pope’s Lady Suffolk. But then Cowper was living amongst the rural gentry, n...

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...ut out her foot for her slip- per. The Colonel knelt down: “If you will be Pope I will turn Papist,” says he; and her Holiness gave him gracious leave... ...ue; and the next minute the neck- lace was where Belinda’s cross is in Mr. Pope’s admirable poem, and glittering on the whitest and most perfectly-sha... ...y, and almost blind, bear- ing a brave face against fortune. The great Mr. Pope (of whose prodigious genius I have no words to express my admiration) ... ... king: on which her Majesty was pleased to give him a medal blessed by the Pope, which had been found very efficacious in cases similar to his own, an...

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...he besought him to wear round his neck—a medal, blessed by I know not what pope, and worn by his late sacred Majesty King James. So Esmond ar- rived a... ...om,” whispers her companion. “W ell, I call him Popish because his name is Pope,” says the lady. “’Tis only my joking way. And this little dwarf of a ...

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...nglish History of France; a great deal in Plutarch’s Lives, the Atalantis, Pope’s Homer, Dryden’s Plays, Chillingworth, the Countess D’Aulnois, and Lo... ...ly blameable in one Mr. Moore, who, having formerly borrowed some lines of Pope and com pany, took the liberty to transcribe six of them into his pla... ...he liberty to transcribe six of them into his play of the Rival Modes. Mr. Pope, however, very luckily found them in the said play, and, laying violen... ... religion to your interest,” cries the exciseman; “and are desirous to see popery brought in, are you?” “Not I, truly,” answered the other; “I hate ... ...f novels, which, like this I am writing, is of the comic class. What Mr. Pope says of women is very applicable to most in this station, who are, ind... ...t solemn protestation, “That he was no more the fa ther of Jones than the Pope of Rome;” and imprecated the most bitter curses on his head, if he did...