The Works of Alexander Pope: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... rules , " And not like forty other Fools : As thus , " Vouchfafe , oh gracious Maker ! " To grant me this and t'other Acre : " Or , if it be thy Will and Pleasure , " Direct my Plow to find a Treafure : " ' But only what my Station fits ...
... rules , " And not like forty other Fools : As thus , " Vouchfafe , oh gracious Maker ! " To grant me this and t'other Acre : " Or , if it be thy Will and Pleasure , " Direct my Plow to find a Treafure : " ' But only what my Station fits ...
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... rule , that guides , but not constrains ; And finish'd more thro ' happiness than pains . The kindred Arts fhall in their praise conspire , One dip the pencil , and one ftring the lyre . Yet fhould the Graces all thy figures place , And ...
... rule , that guides , but not constrains ; And finish'd more thro ' happiness than pains . The kindred Arts fhall in their praise conspire , One dip the pencil , and one ftring the lyre . Yet fhould the Graces all thy figures place , And ...
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... Rules of the An- cients , for the generation of Children of Wit . He ordered his diet according to the prefcription of Galen , confining himself and his wife for almoft the whole first year to Goat's Milk and Honey . It unfortunately ...
... Rules of the An- cients , for the generation of Children of Wit . He ordered his diet according to the prefcription of Galen , confining himself and his wife for almoft the whole first year to Goat's Milk and Honey . It unfortunately ...
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... rules of the pureft Antiquity , in re- lation to the Exercifes of his Son . He was ftript , powder'd , and anointed , but not conftantly bath'd , which occafioned many heavy complaints of the Laundrefs about dirtying his linen . When he ...
... rules of the pureft Antiquity , in re- lation to the Exercifes of his Son . He was ftript , powder'd , and anointed , but not conftantly bath'd , which occafioned many heavy complaints of the Laundrefs about dirtying his linen . When he ...
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... Rules of Logick are Spectacles to a purblind understanding , and there- fore he refolved to proceed with his two Pupils . Martin's understanding was fo totally immers'd in fenfible objects , that he demanded examples from * When a ...
... Rules of Logick are Spectacles to a purblind understanding , and there- fore he refolved to proceed with his two Pupils . Martin's understanding was fo totally immers'd in fenfible objects , that he demanded examples from * When a ...
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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...