The Age of Pope (1700-1744).G. Bell and sons, 1899 - 260 páginas |
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... Italy at the least notice and from thence , ' he adds , ' how far you might draw me and I might run after you , I no more know than the spouse in the song of Solomon . ' 6 This was the foible of an age in which women were addressed as ...
... Italy at the least notice and from thence , ' he adds , ' how far you might draw me and I might run after you , I no more know than the spouse in the song of Solomon . ' 6 This was the foible of an age in which women were addressed as ...
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... Italian , and into German ; it was pronounced by Voltaire to be the most useful and sublime didactic poem ever written in any language ; it was admired by Kant and quoted in his lectures ; and it received high praise from the Scotch ...
... Italian , and into German ; it was pronounced by Voltaire to be the most useful and sublime didactic poem ever written in any language ; it was admired by Kant and quoted in his lectures ; and it received high praise from the Scotch ...
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... Italian opera , which had been long the laughing - stock of men of letters , and as the play was thought to have political signi- ficance , and the character of Macheath to be a portrait of Walpole , it was received with enthusiasm ...
... Italian opera , which had been long the laughing - stock of men of letters , and as the play was thought to have political signi- ficance , and the character of Macheath to be a portrait of Walpole , it was received with enthusiasm ...
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... Italy , which suggested a poem in blank verse , The Ruins of Rome ( 1740 ) . After his return to England he entered into holy orders , took a wife , who is said to have been a descen- dant of Shakespeare , and settled at Calthorp in ...
... Italy , which suggested a poem in blank verse , The Ruins of Rome ( 1740 ) . After his return to England he entered into holy orders , took a wife , who is said to have been a descen- dant of Shakespeare , and settled at Calthorp in ...
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... Italian , he might be fitted for the diplomatic service . Some time after his return to England he published his Remarks on Several Parts of Italy ( 1705 ) , and dedicated the volume to Swift , the most agreeable companion , the truest ...
... Italian , he might be fitted for the diplomatic service . Some time after his return to England he published his Remarks on Several Parts of Italy ( 1705 ) , and dedicated the volume to Swift , the most agreeable companion , the truest ...
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Página 99 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Página 92 - I hear a voice, you cannot hear, Which says, I must not stay; I see a hand, you cannot see, Which beckons me away.
Página 26 - Ixion fixed, the wretch shall feel The giddy motion of the whirling mill, In fumes of burning chocolate shall glow, And tremble at the sea that froths below!
Página 128 - She was a very beautiful woman, of a noble spirit, and there was a dignity in her grief amidst all the wildness of her transport; which, methought, struck me with an instinct of sorrow, that, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since.
Página 196 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Página 66 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man...
Página 73 - As home he goes beneath the joyous moon. Ye that keep watch in heaven, as earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, Ye constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre. Great source of day! best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam His praise.
Página 26 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride...
Página 224 - Comes slowly grazing through the adjoining meads, Whose stealing pace and lengthened shade we fear, Till torn-up forage in his teeth we hear; When nibbling sheep at large pursue their food, And unmolested kine rechew the cud; When curlews cry beneath the village walls, And to her straggling brood the partridge calls...
Página 98 - Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which he did with such judgment and such fancy, as made his little domain the envy of the great, and the admiration of the .skilful ; a place to be visited by travellers, and copied by designers.