The Age of Pope (1700-1744).G. Bell and sons, 1899 - 260 páginas |
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... known familiarly as the Queen Anne men . It will be obvious to the most superficial student that the gulf which separates the lite- rary period , closing with the death of Milton in 1674 , from the first half of the eighteenth century ...
... known familiarly as the Queen Anne men . It will be obvious to the most superficial student that the gulf which separates the lite- rary period , closing with the death of Milton in 1674 , from the first half of the eighteenth century ...
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... known as Mrs. Delany , was sacrificed at seventeen to a gouty old man of sixty , and when he died she was expected to marry again with the same object in view . Mrs. Delany detested , with good cause , the commercial estimate of ...
... known as Mrs. Delany , was sacrificed at seventeen to a gouty old man of sixty , and when he died she was expected to marry again with the same object in view . Mrs. Delany detested , with good cause , the commercial estimate of ...
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... known before or since . Even men who like Sir Robert Walpole kept their heads , and saw that the bubble would soon burst , invested in stock . Pope had his share in the speculation , and might , had he ' realized ' in time , have been ...
... known before or since . Even men who like Sir Robert Walpole kept their heads , and saw that the bubble would soon burst , invested in stock . Pope had his share in the speculation , and might , had he ' realized ' in time , have been ...
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... known to laugh , was a great wit , but his sense of humour was small , and the descent from these deities to Queen Anne savours not a little of bathos . In 1712 Pope had published The Rape of the Lock , which 1 Some qualification may be ...
... known to laugh , was a great wit , but his sense of humour was small , and the descent from these deities to Queen Anne savours not a little of bathos . In 1712 Pope had published The Rape of the Lock , which 1 Some qualification may be ...
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... known with certainty as to Bolingbroke's influence , but it is reasonable to believe that the close intercourse of the two men did immensely sway the more impressionable , and , so far as philosophy is concerned , the more ignorant of ...
... known with certainty as to Bolingbroke's influence , but it is reasonable to believe that the close intercourse of the two men did immensely sway the more impressionable , and , so far as philosophy is concerned , the more ignorant of ...
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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.