The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe, Volume 21847 |
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... cause to quarrel with them 1 In the former editions it was thus - For as long as one side despises a well - meant endeavour , the other will not be satisfied with a moderate ap- probation - But the Author altered it , as these words ...
... cause to quarrel with them 1 In the former editions it was thus - For as long as one side despises a well - meant endeavour , the other will not be satisfied with a moderate ap- probation - But the Author altered it , as these words ...
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... cause , From thy own life transcribe th ' unerring laws : Teach a bad world beneath her sway to bend : To verse like thine fierce savages attend , And men more fierce : when Orpheus tunes the lay , Ev'n fiends relenting hear their rage ...
... cause , From thy own life transcribe th ' unerring laws : Teach a bad world beneath her sway to bend : To verse like thine fierce savages attend , And men more fierce : when Orpheus tunes the lay , Ev'n fiends relenting hear their rage ...
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... cause my Delia's stay ; 25 30 NOTES . So that the judicious critic sees he should have said - with Menander's fire . For what the Poet meant , was , that his friend had joined to Terence's art , what Cæsar thought wanting in Terence ...
... cause my Delia's stay ; 25 30 NOTES . So that the judicious critic sees he should have said - with Menander's fire . For what the Poet meant , was , that his friend had joined to Terence's art , what Cæsar thought wanting in Terence ...
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... cause of Jove . And thou , great Heir of all thy Father's fame , Encrease of glory to the Latian name , 30 Oh ! bless thy Rome with an eternal reign , Nor let desiring worlds entreat in vain . What tho ' the stars contract their heav ...
... cause of Jove . And thou , great Heir of all thy Father's fame , Encrease of glory to the Latian name , 30 Oh ! bless thy Rome with an eternal reign , Nor let desiring worlds entreat in vain . What tho ' the stars contract their heav ...
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... cause of more than mortal hate : The rest , succeeding times shall ripen into Fate . The God obeys , and to his feet ... causes sleep to fly , Or in soft slumbers seals the wakeful eye ; That drives the dead to dark Tartarean coasts , Or ...
... cause of more than mortal hate : The rest , succeeding times shall ripen into Fate . The God obeys , and to his feet ... causes sleep to fly , Or in soft slumbers seals the wakeful eye ; That drives the dead to dark Tartarean coasts , Or ...
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Página 40 - 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.
Página 341 - Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Página 318 - To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. Some few in that, but numbers err in this, Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss; A fool might once himself alone expose, Now one in verse makes many more in prose. 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Página 346 - 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 410 - At every word a reputation dies. Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. Meanwhile, declining from the noon of day, The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray ; The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang, that jurymen may dine; The merchant from th* Exchange returns in peace, And the long labours of the toilet cease.
Página 87 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Página 402 - Now awful beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms, Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face : Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes.
Página 83 - All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee : they shall come up with acceptance on Mine altar, and I will glorify the house of My glory.
Página 344 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvary'd chimes, With sure Returns of still expected rhymes; Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...
Página 325 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same...