The Works of Alexander Pope ...W. P. Hazard, 1856 - 504 páginas |
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... impudent one . If Pope's ode be particularly inspected , it will be found that the first stanza consists of sounds well chosen indeed , but only Bounds . The second consists of hyperbolical common - places , easily LIFE OF POPE . 63.
... impudent one . If Pope's ode be particularly inspected , it will be found that the first stanza consists of sounds well chosen indeed , but only Bounds . The second consists of hyperbolical common - places , easily LIFE OF POPE . 63.
Página 65
... sound should seem an echo to the sense ; a precept to which Pope is allowed to have observed be- yond any other English poet . " " This motion of representative metre , and the desire of dis- covering frequent adaptations of the sound ...
... sound should seem an echo to the sense ; a precept to which Pope is allowed to have observed be- yond any other English poet . " " This motion of representative metre , and the desire of dis- covering frequent adaptations of the sound ...
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... sound and time , and produced this memorable triplet ; Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse , the full resounding line , The long majestic march , and energy divine . } Here are the swiftness of the rapid race ...
... sound and time , and produced this memorable triplet ; Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse , the full resounding line , The long majestic march , and energy divine . } Here are the swiftness of the rapid race ...
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... sounds sink into sense , and the doctrine of the essay , disrobed of its ornaments , is lef to the powers of its naked excellence , what shall we discover ? That we are , in comparison with our Creator , very weak and ignorant ; that we ...
... sounds sink into sense , and the doctrine of the essay , disrobed of its ornaments , is lef to the powers of its naked excellence , what shall we discover ? That we are , in comparison with our Creator , very weak and ignorant ; that we ...
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... sound as well as meaning ; " Music , " says Dryden , " is inarticulate poetry : among the excellencies of Pope , therefore , must be mentioned the melody of his metre . By perusing the works of Dryden , he discovered the most perfect fa ...
... sound as well as meaning ; " Music , " says Dryden , " is inarticulate poetry : among the excellencies of Pope , therefore , must be mentioned the melody of his metre . By perusing the works of Dryden , he discovered the most perfect fa ...
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Página 201 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 104 - Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reasoning but to err...
Página 83 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home ; Here thou, great Anna ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court ; In various talk th...
Página 103 - Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part ; As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart...
Página 421 - How loved, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
Página 61 - Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind, Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe and levelled by the roller.
Página 392 - Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing ! that acting either part, The trifling head or the corrupted heart, Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord.
Página 434 - FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun...
Página 61 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden observes the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Página 97 - AWAKE, my ST JOHN ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot, Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.