The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorCrissy & Markley, 1851 - 484 páginas |
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... rest , ( the first part of which was written at the same time with his pastorals ) his Essay on Criticism in 1709 , and his Rape of the Lock in 1712 , established his poetical character in such a manner that he was called upon by the ...
... rest , ( the first part of which was written at the same time with his pastorals ) his Essay on Criticism in 1709 , and his Rape of the Lock in 1712 , established his poetical character in such a manner that he was called upon by the ...
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... rest , meditated a revenge which redounds but little to their honour . They either intended to chastise him cor- Dorally , or gave it out that they had really done so , in order to bring shame upon Mr. Pope , which LIFE OF POPE , xxvi.
... rest , meditated a revenge which redounds but little to their honour . They either intended to chastise him cor- Dorally , or gave it out that they had really done so , in order to bring shame upon Mr. Pope , which LIFE OF POPE , xxvi.
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... rest removes , The thrush may chant to the forsaken groves , But charm'd to silence , listens while she sings , And all the aërial audience clap their wings . Soon as the flocks shook off the nightly dews , Two swains , whom love kept ...
... rest removes , The thrush may chant to the forsaken groves , But charm'd to silence , listens while she sings , And all the aërial audience clap their wings . Soon as the flocks shook off the nightly dews , Two swains , whom love kept ...
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... rest a rural nymph was famed , Thy offspring , Thames ! the fair Lodona named : ( Lodona's 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 ...
... rest a rural nymph was famed , Thy offspring , Thames ! the fair Lodona named : ( Lodona's 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 ...
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... rest , And blended lie the oppressor and the oppress'd ! Make sacred Charles's tomb for ever known ( Obscure the place , and uninscribed the stone :) Oh fact accursed ! what tears has Albion shed ? Heavens , what new wounds ! and how ...
... rest , And blended lie the oppressor and the oppress'd ! Make sacred Charles's tomb for ever known ( Obscure the place , and uninscribed the stone :) Oh fact accursed ! what tears has Albion shed ? Heavens , what new wounds ! and how ...
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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.