The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life of the AuthorPhillips & Sampson, 1848 |
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... fate . The three great writers of pastoral dialogue , which Mr. Pope , in some measure , seems to imitate , are Theocritus , Virgil , and Spenser ; Mr. Pope is of opinion that Theocritus excels all others in nature and simplicity . That ...
... fate . The three great writers of pastoral dialogue , which Mr. Pope , in some measure , seems to imitate , are Theocritus , Virgil , and Spenser ; Mr. Pope is of opinion that Theocritus excels all others in nature and simplicity . That ...
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... fate , and Daphne's praise ! THYRSIS . Behold the groves that shine with silver frost , Their beauty wither'd , and their verdure lost : Here shall I try the sweet Alexis ' strain , That call'd the listening Dryads to the plain : Thames ...
... fate , and Daphne's praise ! THYRSIS . Behold the groves that shine with silver frost , Their beauty wither'd , and their verdure lost : Here shall I try the sweet Alexis ' strain , That call'd the listening Dryads to the plain : Thames ...
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... fate bemoan , In notes more sad than when they sing their own : In hollow caves sweet Echo silent lies , Silent , or only to her name replies : Her name with pleasure once she taught the shore : Now Daphne's dead , and pleasure is no ...
... fate bemoan , In notes more sad than when they sing their own : In hollow caves sweet Echo silent lies , Silent , or only to her name replies : Her name with pleasure once she taught the shore : Now Daphne's dead , and pleasure is no ...
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... fate remurmur to the silver flood ; The silver flood , so lately calm , appears Swell'd with new passion , and o'erflows with tears ; The winds , and trees , and floods , her death deplore . Daphne our grief , our glory now no more ...
... fate remurmur to the silver flood ; The silver flood , so lately calm , appears Swell'd with new passion , and o'erflows with tears ; The winds , and trees , and floods , her death deplore . Daphne our grief , our glory now no more ...
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... fate , in long oblivion cast , The muse shall sing , and what she sings shall last . ) Scarce could the goddess from her nymph be known , But by the crescent , and the golden zone . She scorn'd the praise of beauty , and the care ; A ...
... fate , in long oblivion cast , The muse shall sing , and what she sings shall last . ) Scarce could the goddess from her nymph be known , But by the crescent , and the golden zone . She scorn'd the praise of beauty , and the care ; A ...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ... Alexander Pope Visualização completa - 1808 |
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Adrastus ancient bard Bavius beauty behold bless'd breast charms Cibber court cried critics Curll Dennis divine Dryden Dryope Dulness Dunciad e'en e'er Edmund Curll epigram EPISTLE Essay on Criticism eyes fair fame fate fire fix'd flame fool genius gentle give glory goddess grace happy hath head heart Heaven hero Homer honour Iliad king knave learn'd learned live lord Lord Bolingbroke mankind mind moral muse nature ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er once passion plain pleased pleasure poem poet Pope praise pride proud queen rage REMARKS rise sacred Sappho satire Scribl sense shade shine sighs sing skies smile soft soul Sylphs tears Thalestris Thebes thee thine things thou thought throne trembling true truth Twas verse Vertumnus Virgil virgin virtue Westminster Abbey wife words write youth
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Página 240 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Página 9 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Página 5 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage !' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Página 73 - Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years, slide soft away, In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day : Sound sleep by night ; study and ease, Together mix'd ; sweet recreation, And innocence which most does please With meditation. Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die : Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where...
Página 249 - Know, Nature's children all divide her care; The fur that warms a monarch warm'da bear. While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!
Página 98 - Soft yielding minds to Water glide away, And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental Tea. The graver Prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of mischief still on Earth to roam. The light Coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of Air.
Página 246 - Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
Página 236 - Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Página 78 - Some beauties yet no precepts can declare, For there's a happiness as well as care. Music resembles poetry ; in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master-hand alone can reach. If, where the rules not far enough extend, (Since rules were made but to promote their end) Some lucky license answer to the full Th' intent propos'd, that license is a rule.
Página 73 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.