The Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem, Volume 4A. J. Valpy, 1835 |
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... Gentle Shepherds Epigram and two Pens 1740 ; a Poem To Mr. Thomas Southern , on his birth - day Roxana , or the Drawing - Room ; an Eclogue To Lady Mary Wortley Montague Extemporaneous Lines on the Picture of Lady M. W. Montague , by ...
... Gentle Shepherds Epigram and two Pens 1740 ; a Poem To Mr. Thomas Southern , on his birth - day Roxana , or the Drawing - Room ; an Eclogue To Lady Mary Wortley Montague Extemporaneous Lines on the Picture of Lady M. W. Montague , by ...
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... mortal ever known . Thus , in a sea of folly toss'd , My choicest hours of life are lost ; Yet always wishing to retreat , O , could I see my country seat ! 125 130 There leaning near a gentle brook , Sleep , IMITATIONS OF HORACE . 13.
... mortal ever known . Thus , in a sea of folly toss'd , My choicest hours of life are lost ; Yet always wishing to retreat , O , could I see my country seat ! 125 130 There leaning near a gentle brook , Sleep , IMITATIONS OF HORACE . 13.
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... gentle brook , Sleep , or peruse some ancient book , And there in sweet oblivion drown Those cares that haunt the court and town . O charming noons ! and nights divine ! Or when I sup , or when I dine , My friends above , my folks below ...
... gentle brook , Sleep , or peruse some ancient book , And there in sweet oblivion drown Those cares that haunt the court and town . O charming noons ! and nights divine ! Or when I sup , or when I dine , My friends above , my folks below ...
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... gentle reign of my queen Anne . Ah , sound no more thy soft alarms , Nor circle sober fifty with thy charms . Mother too fierce of dear desires ! Turn , turn to willing hearts your wanton fires ; To number five direct your doves ; There ...
... gentle reign of my queen Anne . Ah , sound no more thy soft alarms , Nor circle sober fifty with thy charms . Mother too fierce of dear desires ! Turn , turn to willing hearts your wanton fires ; To number five direct your doves ; There ...
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... gentle gales , beneath my body blow , And softly lay me on the waves below ! 205 And thou , kind Love , my sinking limbs sustain , Spread thy soft wings , and waft me o'er the main , 210 Nor let a lover's death the guiltless flood ...
... gentle gales , beneath my body blow , And softly lay me on the waves below ! 205 And thou , kind Love , my sinking limbs sustain , Spread thy soft wings , and waft me o'er the main , 210 Nor let a lover's death the guiltless flood ...
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Addison Ambrose Philips bard beauty bless bless'd bliss bosom breast charms countess of Suffolk court cried dame dear delight divine Dryope Dunciad e'er ease envy EPISTLE ev'n eyes fair fame fate fire flame flowery fool gentle grace grave Gulliver hand haste hear heart Heaven Homer honest honor Houyhnhnm husband Iliad join'd joys kind KIT-CAT CLUB knight lady learn'd LEMUEL GULLIVER live lord lord Harvey lyre Muse ne'er numbers nymph o'er once Ovid pass'd Phaon pleased pleasure poem poet Pope Pope's praise pride PROLOGUE quoth rage rise Sappho satire scene shade shine Siege of Damascus sigh sing smiles soft song soul spouse squire sung sure sweet Swift tears tell tender thee thine thou thought Tom D'Urfey translation tree Twas verse Vertumnus vex'd virgin virtue Warton wife wise wives woman youth
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Página 11 - Send for him up; take no excuse.' The toil, the danger of the seas, Great ministers ne'er think of these; Or, let it cost five hundred pound, No matter where the money's found, It is but so much more in debt, And that they ne'er consider'd yet. ' Good Mr. Dean, go change your gown, Let my lord know you're come to town.
Página 98 - And sensible soft melancholy. "Has she no faults then, (Envy says) Sir?" Yes, she has one, I must aver; When all the world conspires to praise her, The woman's deaf, and does not hear.
Página 80 - A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws, What bosom beats not in his country's cause ? Who sees him act, but envies every deed ? Who hears him groan, and does not wish to bleed?
Página 97 - Mournful cypress, verdant willow, Gilding my Aurelia's brows, Morpheus hovering o'er my pillow, Hear me pay my dying vows.
Página 9 - I'VE often wish'd that I had clear For life, six hundred pounds a year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end, A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land, set out to plant a wood.
Página 13 - Or gravely try to read the lines Writ underneath the country signs; Or, ' Have you nothing new to-day ' From Pope, from Parnell, or from Gay ?' Such tattle often entertains My lord and me as far as Staines, As once a week we travel down To Windsor, and again to town, Where all that passes inter nos Might be proclaim'd at Charing-cross.
Página 101 - ... In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow ; In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes Of hanging mountains, and of sloping greens ; Joy lives not here, to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre, the...
Página 60 - Oh lasting as those colours may they shine, Free as thy stroke, yet faultless as thy line ; New graces yearly like thy works display, Soft without weakness, without glaring gay ; Led by some rule, that guides, but not constrains ; And finish'd more...
Página 64 - The shining robes, rich jewels, beds of state, And, to complete her bliss, a Fool for Mate. She glares in Balls, front Boxes, and the Ring, A vain, unquiet, glitt'ring, wretched Thing! Pride, Pomp, and State but reach her outward part; She sighs, and is no Duchess at her heart.
Página 49 - SEE the wild waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad sepulchre appears ! With nodding arches, broken temples spread, The very tombs now vanish'd like their dead!