The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorCrissy & Markley, 1851 - 484 páginas |
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... eyes must roll no more . The conclusion of this elegy is irresistibly affecting . So peaceful rests , without a stone , a name Which once had beauty , titles , wealth and fame ; How lov'd , how honour'd once , avails thee not , To whom ...
... eyes must roll no more . The conclusion of this elegy is irresistibly affecting . So peaceful rests , without a stone , a name Which once had beauty , titles , wealth and fame ; How lov'd , how honour'd once , avails thee not , To whom ...
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... eyes , And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise , assent with civil leer , And , without sneering , others teach to sneer ; Willing to wound , and yet afraid to strike , Just hint a fault , and hesitate ...
... eyes , And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise , assent with civil leer , And , without sneering , others teach to sneer ; Willing to wound , and yet afraid to strike , Just hint a fault , and hesitate ...
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... eyes shut who can see no beauty of language , no harmony of numbers in this translation . But the most formidable critic against Mr. Pope in this great undertaking , was the celebrated Madame Dacier , whom Mr. Pope treated with less ...
... eyes shut who can see no beauty of language , no harmony of numbers in this translation . But the most formidable critic against Mr. Pope in this great undertaking , was the celebrated Madame Dacier , whom Mr. Pope treated with less ...
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... the prize , And make my tongue victorious as her eyes , No lambs or sheep for victims I'll impart , Thy victim , Love , shall be the shepherd s heart STREPHON . Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain , 10 POPE'S POETICAL WORKS.
... the prize , And make my tongue victorious as her eyes , No lambs or sheep for victims I'll impart , Thy victim , Love , shall be the shepherd s heart STREPHON . Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain , 10 POPE'S POETICAL WORKS.
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... eyes.- DAPHNIS . Nay , tell me first , in what more happy fields The thistle springs , to which the lily yields : And then a nobler prize I will resign , For Sylvia , charming Sylvia , shall be thine . DAMON . Cease to contend ; for ...
... eyes.- DAPHNIS . Nay , tell me first , in what more happy fields The thistle springs , to which the lily yields : And then a nobler prize I will resign , For Sylvia , charming Sylvia , shall be thine . DAMON . Cease to contend ; for ...
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Addison Adrastus ALEXANDER POPE ancient bard Bavius beauty behold bless'd breast charms Cibber court cried critics Curll Dennis divine Dryden 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 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 Virgil virtue Westminster Abbey wife wise words wretched write youth
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Página 11 - 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 240 - KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer...
Página 231 - Awake, my ST JOHN ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. Let us (since Life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A Wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot; Or Garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Página 108 - T' inclose the Lock ; now joins it, to divide. Ev'n then, before the fatal engine closed, A wretched sylph too fondly interposed ; Fate urged the shears, and cut the sylph in twain, (But airy substance soon unites again;) The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, for ever, and for ever ! Then flash'd the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th
Página 237 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Página 55 - Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused ; Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Página 103 - A brighter wash ; to curl their waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs ; Nay, oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a flounce, or add a furbelow.
Página 264 - Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own : Condemn'd in business or in arts to drudge, Without a second, or without a judge : Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land ? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
Página 120 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Página 117 - Rather than so, ah let me still survive, And burn in Cupid's flames — but burn alive. Restore the Lock ! she cries ; and all around, Restore the Lock ! the vaulted roofs rebound.