Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern, Volume 30Charles Dudley Warner International Society, 1896 |
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Página 11713
... verses , now stands still ? » In many respects Pope's life was peculiarly uneventful in the usually uneventful life of an author . His father quitted his business while the son was still a child , and took up his residence at Binfield ...
... verses , now stands still ? » In many respects Pope's life was peculiarly uneventful in the usually uneventful life of an author . His father quitted his business while the son was still a child , and took up his residence at Binfield ...
Página 11714
... verse , he wrote an epic , he wrote a tragedy ; and long before he reached his majority , he had displayed powers which attracted the attention of men prominent in the social and literary world . Living a secluded tastes and aspira- His ...
... verse , he wrote an epic , he wrote a tragedy ; and long before he reached his majority , he had displayed powers which attracted the attention of men prominent in the social and literary world . Living a secluded tastes and aspira- His ...
Página 11719
... verse , and hitches in a rhyme ; Sacred to ridicule his whole life long , And the sad burthen of some merry song . " The most singular thing about his character was , that while in his controversies he was at times moved by some of the ...
... verse , and hitches in a rhyme ; Sacred to ridicule his whole life long , And the sad burthen of some merry song . " The most singular thing about his character was , that while in his controversies he was at times moved by some of the ...
Página 11720
... verse is everywhere plainly marked , but nowhere more so than in the correspondence , which was brought out under his own supervision . Never were letters more artificial . They are particularly distinguished for the lofty moral ...
... verse is everywhere plainly marked , but nowhere more so than in the correspondence , which was brought out under his own supervision . Never were letters more artificial . They are particularly distinguished for the lofty moral ...
Página 11722
... verse the vigor which attracted to it attention , and the point which riveted it in the memory ; the curious felicity of expression which gave to the obvious the aspect of the striking ; and more than all , the occasional loftiness of ...
... verse the vigor which attracted to it attention , and the point which riveted it in the memory ; the curious felicity of expression which gave to the obvious the aspect of the striking ; and more than all , the occasional loftiness of ...
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admiration Ahasuerus Allan Ramsay ancient Andromache appeared arms Bajazet beauty better brought century character Christian Cicero dead death delight Demosthenes Edgar Quinet eyes fair fate father feel forest France François Rabelais French Gargantua genius Greek hand head heart heaven honor horse Jean Jesuits Jules Ferry Julius Cæsar King ladies language learned LEOPOLD VON RANKE literary literature Little Parisian lived Lochaber look Lord Manon mind Morgante Moriscoes mother nature ne'er never night noble o'er once Onyegin orator Orlando passed passion persons poem poet poetry Polybius Pope Pushkin Quintilian Rabelais Renaud Roman Rome Russian Saint Saracens seemed sigh sing song soon soul speak spirit style sweet tears thee things thou thought tion Translation Troubadours truth Uglitch verse whole words write young
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Página 11751 - Hark, they whisper ; angels say, " Sister spirit, come away ! " What is this absorbs me quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirit, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul ; can this be death ? The world recedes ; it disappears ! Heaven opens on my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring ! Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! O grave, where is thy victory ? O death, where is thy sting...
Página 11722 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride...
Página 11744 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys. Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Página 11726 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest, who have learned to dance : 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
Página 11739 - Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Página 11740 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is...
Página 11723 - Of all the Causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is Pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Página 11734 - The little engine on his fingers' ends ; This just behind Belinda's neck he spread, As o'er the fragrant steams she bends her head. Swift to the lock a thousand sprites repair...
Página 12074 - And wider still those billows of war Thundered along the horizon's bar ; And louder yet into Winchester rolled The roar of that red sea uncontrolled...
Página 11713 - While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind ; But, more advanced, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise.