The Works of Alexander Pope: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... kind : To him each Rival fhall fubmit , Make but his Riches equal to his Wit . * This , and the unfinished imitation of the ninth Ode of the fourth Book which follows , fhew as happy a vein for the Odes of Horace as for the Epistles ...
... kind : To him each Rival fhall fubmit , Make but his Riches equal to his Wit . * This , and the unfinished imitation of the ninth Ode of the fourth Book which follows , fhew as happy a vein for the Odes of Horace as for the Epistles ...
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... kind Deceivers of the foul ! But why ? ah tell me , ah too dear ! Steals down my cheek th ' involuntary Tear ? Why words fo flowing , thoughts fo free , Stop , or turn nonfenfe , at one glance of thee ? Thee , dreft in Fancy's airy beam ...
... kind Deceivers of the foul ! But why ? ah tell me , ah too dear ! Steals down my cheek th ' involuntary Tear ? Why words fo flowing , thoughts fo free , Stop , or turn nonfenfe , at one glance of thee ? Thee , dreft in Fancy's airy beam ...
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... kind , That ancient Worm , the Devil . The Learn'd themfelves we Book - worms name , The Blockhead is a Slow - worm ; The Nymph whofe tail is all on flame , Is aptly term'd a Glow - worm : The Fops are painted Butterflies , That flutter ...
... kind , That ancient Worm , the Devil . The Learn'd themfelves we Book - worms name , The Blockhead is a Slow - worm ; The Nymph whofe tail is all on flame , Is aptly term'd a Glow - worm : The Fops are painted Butterflies , That flutter ...
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... Kind Boyle , before his poet , lays A table , with a cloth of bays ; And Ireland , mother of fweet fingers , Presents her harp ftill to his fingers . The feaft , his tow'ring genius marks In yonder wild goose and the larks ! The ...
... Kind Boyle , before his poet , lays A table , with a cloth of bays ; And Ireland , mother of fweet fingers , Presents her harp ftill to his fingers . The feaft , his tow'ring genius marks In yonder wild goose and the larks ! The ...
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... kind from other hands ; yet , if we except the Epitaph on the young Duke of Buckingham , and perhaps one or two more , they are not of equal force with the rest of our Author's writings . The na- ture of the Compofition itself is ...
... kind from other hands ; yet , if we except the Epitaph on the young Duke of Buckingham , and perhaps one or two more , they are not of equal force with the rest of our Author's writings . The na- ture of the Compofition itself is ...
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Página 290 - Homer makes us hearers, and Virgil leaves us readers. If in the next place we take a view of the sentiments, the same presiding faculty is eminent in the sublimity and spirit of his thoughts. Longinus has given his opinion, that it was in this part Homer principally excelled.
Página 81 - Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
Página 196 - Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy!
Página 280 - I know an eminent cook, who beautified his country seat with a coronation dinner in greens ; where you see the champion flourishing on horseback at one end of the table, and the queen in perpetual youth at the other.
Página 309 - ... to consider him attentively in comparison with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns.
Página 284 - If some things are too luxuriant it is owing to the richness of the soil; and if others are not arrived to perfection or maturity, it is only because they are overrun and oppressed by those of a stronger nature.
Página 327 - Prose from verse they did not know, and they accordingly printed one for the other throughout the volume.
Página 288 - Every one has something so singularly his own, that no painter could have distinguished them more by their features, than the poet has by their manners.
Página 289 - Idomeneus a plain, direct soldier ; in Sarpedon, a gallant and generous one. Nor is this judicious and...
Página 331 - I will conclude by saying of Shakespear, that with all his faults, and with all the irregularity of his drama, one may look upon his works, in comparison of those that are more...