The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with a life, by A. Dyce, Volume 21863 |
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... Apollo's spite , There are who judge still worse than he can write . Some have at first for wits , then poets past ; Turn'd critics next , and prov'd plain fools at last . Some neither can for wits nor critics pass , As 4 THE POEMS.
... Apollo's spite , There are who judge still worse than he can write . Some have at first for wits , then poets past ; Turn'd critics next , and prov'd plain fools at last . Some neither can for wits nor critics pass , As 4 THE POEMS.
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... plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails , The solid power of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play , The memory's soft figures melt away . One science only will one genius fit ; So vast is art , so narrow ...
... plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails , The solid power of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play , The memory's soft figures melt away . One science only will one genius fit ; So vast is art , so narrow ...
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... plain , without invention's aid , Write dull receipts how poems may be made ; These leave the sense their learning to display , And those explain the meaning quite away . You then whose judgment the right course would steer , Know well ...
... plain , without invention's aid , Write dull receipts how poems may be made ; These leave the sense their learning to display , And those explain the meaning quite away . You then whose judgment the right course would steer , Know well ...
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... plain . ” Thus critics of less judgment than caprice , Curious , not knowing , not exact , but nice , Form short ideas , and offend in arts ( As most in manners ) , by a love to parts . Some to conceit alone their taste confine , And ...
... plain . ” Thus critics of less judgment than caprice , Curious , not knowing , not exact , but nice , Form short ideas , and offend in arts ( As most in manners ) , by a love to parts . Some to conceit alone their taste confine , And ...
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... plain , Flies o'er th ' unbending corn , and skims along the main . Hear how Timotheus ' varied lays surprise , And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! While at each change the son of Libyan Jove Now burns with glory , and then melts ...
... plain , Flies o'er th ' unbending corn , and skims along the main . Hear how Timotheus ' varied lays surprise , And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! While at each change the son of Libyan Jove Now burns with glory , and then melts ...
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Ambrose Philips ANTISTROPHE Balaam beauty behold bless'd blessing blest bliss breast breath Brobdingnag Cæsar Catiline charms Countess of Suffolk cried critics crown'd dame dear death e'en e'er ease envy EPISTLE ESSAY ON CRITICISM Eurydice Eustace Budgell eyes fair faith fame fate fire fix'd flame fool gentle gold grace Gulliver's Travels happiness heart Heaven honour Houyhnhnm join'd king knave knight lady learn'd learning live lord lyre man's mankind mind mortal Muse nature nature's ne'er never numbers nymph o'er once Ovid pain parterre passion Phryne pleas'd pleasure poet Pope praise pride proud rage rais'd reason rise rules sage Sappho self-love SEMICHORUS sense shade shine sigh skies SMIL soft soul spouse squire taste thee things thou thought true Twas tyrant virtue whate'er whole wife wise youth
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Página 148 - The world recedes ; it disappears ! Heaven opens on my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring ! Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! O grave, where is thy victory ? O death, where is thy sting...
Página 15 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 78 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is...
Página 10 - A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
Página 57 - Nothing is foreign: parts relate to whole; One all-extending, all-preserving soul Connects each being, greatest with the least; Made beast in aid of man, and man of beast; All served, all serving: nothing stands alone: The chain holds on, and where it ends, unknown.
Página 46 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Página 131 - You show us Rome was glorious, not profuse, And pompous buildings once were things of use; Yet shall, my lord, your just, your noble rules, Fill half the land with imitating fools ; Who random drawings from your sheets shall take; And of one beauty many blunders make...
Página 146 - Happy the man. whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound. Content to breathe his native air. In his own ground Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire. Whose trees in summer yield him shade. In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away, In health of body, peace of mind. Quiet by day. Sound sleep by night; study and ease. Together mixt: sweet recreation, And innocence, which most does please With meditation.
Página 44 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name : Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point : This kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on thee.
Página 46 - Go, wondrous creature! mount where Science guides; Go measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides; Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, Correct old Time, and regulate the Sun; Go, soar with Plato to th...