 There motley Images her fancy strike, Figures ill pair'd, and Similies unlike. She sees a Mob of Metaphors advance, Pleas'd with the madness of the mazy dance: How Tragedy and Comedy embrace; How Farce and Epic get a jumbled race; How Time himself stands...  The Dunciad - Page 80by Alexander Pope - 1751Full view - About this book
 | Colin Nicholson - Business & Economics - 1994 - 252 pages
...Similes unlike. [We] see[] a Mob of Metaphors advance, Pleas'd with the madness of the mazy dance: How Tragedy and Comedy embrace; How Farce and Epic get a jumbled race; How time himself stands still at her command, Realms shift their place, and Ocean turns to land. (I,... | |
 | Alan D. Chalmers - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 188 pages
...pleasing: incongruous couples caught up in the "madness of the mazy dance," where the Goddess observes How Tragedy and Comedy embrace; How Farce and Epic get a jumbled race; How Time himself stands still at her command Realms shift their place, and Ocean turns to land.37 The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...and similes unlike. She sees a mob of metaphors advance, Pleased with the madness of the mazy dance: How tragedy and comedy embrace; How farce and epic get a jumbled race; 70 How time himself stands still at her command, Realms shift their place, and ocean turns to land. Here gay description... | |
 | Catherine Ingrassia - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 248 pages
..."prepare / For new Abortions, all ye pregnant Fair !" (Am3ii-12) and applauds the literary miscegenation: "How Tragedy and Comedy embrace; / How Farce and Epic get a jumbled race" (A.1. 67-68). The misshapen offspring illustrate the culturally constructed abnormality of female literary... | |
 | Margaret Topping - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 264 pages
...FIGURES OF SPEECH She secs a mob of metaphors advance, Plcased with the madneis of the ma2y dancel How tragedy and comedy embrace; How farce and epic get a jumbled race, How Time himself stands still at her command, Rcalms shift their place, and orcans turn to land, 'Pope,... | |
 | Laura Brown - History - 2001 - 292 pages
...imitation of nature: She sees a Mob of Metaphors advance, Pleas'd widi the madness of die mazy dance: How Tragedy and Comedy embrace; How Farce and Epic get a jumbled race; How Time himself stands still at her command, Realms shift dieir place, and Ocean turns to land. Here... | |
 | John Richetti - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 974 pages
...immortalises while presuming to despise.37 The Dunciad's brilliant catalogues of transgressive generation - 'How Tragedy and Comedy embrace; / How Farce and Epic get a jumbled race; / How Time itself stands still at her command, / Realms shift their place, and oceans turn to land'(i,... | |
 | Howard D. Weinbrot - History - 2005 - 412 pages
...half-form'd" (1:61) as well as copulation between different poetic species, which produces freaks. We see "How Tragedy and Comedy embrace; / How Farce and epic get a jumbled race" (1:69-70). This "wild creation" provides "momentary monsters [who] rise and fall" (1:82-83). Accordingly,... | |
 | Nathaniel Kohn - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 210 pages
...Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. A Mob of Metaphors advance, Pleas'd with the Madness of the mazy dance: How Tragedy and Comedy embrace; How Farce and Epic get a jumbled race. (Pope 1966, p. 65) At the market center of the polis we discover a commingling of categories usually... | |
 | Pat Rogers - Literary Criticism - 2007
...geographical terms: She sees a Mob of Metaphors advance, Pleas'd with the madness of the mazy dance; How Tragedy and Comedy embrace; How Farce and Epic get a jumbled race; How Time himself stands still at her command, Realms shift their place, and Ocean turns to land. 228... | |
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