The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeMacmillan, 1889 - 505 páginas |
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... ev'ry bloomy spray , With joyous musick wake the dawning day ! Why sit we mute when early linnets sing , When warbling Philomel salutes the spring ? Why sit we sad when Phosphor shines so clear , And lavish nature paints the purple Year ...
... ev'ry bloomy spray , With joyous musick wake the dawning day ! Why sit we mute when early linnets sing , When warbling Philomel salutes the spring ? Why sit we sad when Phosphor shines so clear , And lavish nature paints the purple Year ...
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... ev'ry grace excel ; Blest Nymphs , whose Swains those graces sing so well ! Now rise , and haste to yonder woodbine bow'rs , A soft retreat from sudden vernal show'rs , The turf with rural dainties shall be crown'd , While op'ning ...
... ev'ry grace excel ; Blest Nymphs , whose Swains those graces sing so well ! Now rise , and haste to yonder woodbine bow'rs , A soft retreat from sudden vernal show'rs , The turf with rural dainties shall be crown'd , While op'ning ...
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... ev'ry wat'ry bow'r , And Jove consented in a silent show'r . Accept , O GARTH 3 , the Muse's early lays , That adds this wreath of Ivy to thy Bays ; Hear what from Love unpractis'd hearts endure , From Love , the sole disease thou canst ...
... ev'ry wat'ry bow'r , And Jove consented in a silent show'r . Accept , O GARTH 3 , the Muse's early lays , That adds this wreath of Ivy to thy Bays ; Hear what from Love unpractis'd hearts endure , From Love , the sole disease thou canst ...
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... ev'ry herb that grew , And ev'ry plant that drinks the morning dew ; Ah wretched shepherd , what avails thy art , To cure thy lambs , but not to heal thy heart ! Let other swains attend the rural care , Feed fairer flocks , or richer ...
... ev'ry herb that grew , And ev'ry plant that drinks the morning dew ; Ah wretched shepherd , what avails thy art , To cure thy lambs , but not to heal thy heart ! Let other swains attend the rural care , Feed fairer flocks , or richer ...
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... ev'ry grove 2 , And winds shall waft it to the pow'rs above , But would you sing , and rival Orpheus ' strain , The wond'ring forests soon should dance again ; The moving mountains hear the pow'rful call , And headlong streams hang list ...
... ev'ry grove 2 , And winds shall waft it to the pow'rs above , But would you sing , and rival Orpheus ' strain , The wond'ring forests soon should dance again ; The moving mountains hear the pow'rful call , And headlong streams hang list ...
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Addison Æneid Alluding Ambrose Philips ancient Bavius blest Boileau Bolingbroke Book Bowles Carruthers character charms Cibber Colley Cibber Court Critics Dæmons death died divine Dryden Duke Dulness Dunciad Earl edition Epigram Epistle Essay on Criticism ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame famous fate flow'rs fool genius Goddess grace happy heart Heav'n Homer honour Horace Iliad imitation King Lady learned letters lines literary live Lord Lord Hervey Moral Essays Muse Nature never night nymph o'er once Ovid Passion Pastorals pleas'd poem poet Poet's poetic poetry Pope Pope's pow'r praise pride published Queen rage reign rise Sappho Satire sense shade shine sing soul Swift taste thee things thou thought thro translation Twas Twickenham verse Virg Virgil Virtue Warburton Warton Whig wife write youth
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Página 53 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows 1 , 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 : The line too labours, and the words move slow; When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw
Página 40 - IL Hark! they whisper; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, 10 Drowns my spirits, draws my breath? Tell me, my Soul, can this be Death? III. The world recedes; it disappears! Heav'n opens on my eyes! my ears
Página 271 - 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; A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools, by Flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging, that he ne'er oblig'd 3 ; Like Cato, give his little Senate laws,
Página 193 - Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, 240 From thee to Nothing.—On superior pow'rs* Were we to press, inferior might on ours : Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd: Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
Página 52 - Where Denham's strength, and Waller's sweetness join". True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an Echo to the sense*
Página 221 - Save me alike from foolish Pride, Or impious Discontent, At aught thy Wisdom has deny'd, 35 Or aught thy Goodness lent. Teach me to feel another's Woe, To hide the Fault I see; That Mercy I to others show, That Mercy show to me.. 40 Mean tho
Página 21 - lift aloft her scale ; Peace o'er the World her olive wand extend, And white-rob'd Innocence from heav'n descend. Swift fly the years, and rise th' expected morn ! Oh spring to light, auspicious Babe, be born ! See Nature hastes her earliest wreaths to bring, With all the incense of the breathing spring: See lofty
Página 47 - Th' intent propos'd, that Licence is a rule. Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, 150 May boldly deviate from the common track; From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which' without passing thro* the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains.
Página 271 - True Genius kindles, and fair Fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, 195 And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone*, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise;
Página 52 - These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire' ; While expletives their feeble aid do join 3 ; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvary'd chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where-e'er you find "the cooling western breeze,