The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with life of the author and notes by J. LuptonW. Tegg, 1867 - 526 Seiten |
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... sure yourself and your own reach to know , How far your genius , taste , and learning go ; Launch not beyond your depth , but be discreet ; And mark that point where sense and dulness meet . Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit ...
... sure yourself and your own reach to know , How far your genius , taste , and learning go ; Launch not beyond your depth , but be discreet ; And mark that point where sense and dulness meet . Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit ...
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... ; Who could not win the mistress , woo'd the maid ; Against the poets their own arms they turn'd , Sure to hate most the men from whom they learn'd . D 100 110 So modern ' pothecaries , taught the art By ESSAY ON CRITICISM . 33.
... ; Who could not win the mistress , woo'd the maid ; Against the poets their own arms they turn'd , Sure to hate most the men from whom they learn'd . D 100 110 So modern ' pothecaries , taught the art By ESSAY ON CRITICISM . 33.
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... sure returns of still expected rhymes : 349 Where'er you find ' the cooling western breeze , ' In the next line , it ' whispers through the trees : ' If crystal streams with pleasing murmurs creep , ' The reader's threaten'd , not in ...
... sure returns of still expected rhymes : 349 Where'er you find ' the cooling western breeze , ' In the next line , it ' whispers through the trees : ' If crystal streams with pleasing murmurs creep , ' The reader's threaten'd , not in ...
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... sure the best , Which nauseate all , and nothing can digest . Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move ; 390 For fools admire , but men of sense approve : As things seem large which we through mist descry , Dulness is ever apt to ...
... sure the best , Which nauseate all , and nothing can digest . Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move ; 390 For fools admire , but men of sense approve : As things seem large which we through mist descry , Dulness is ever apt to ...
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... Sure some to vex , but never all to please : ' Tis what the vicious fear , the virtuous shun ; By fools ' tis hated , and by knaves undone . If wit so much from ignorance undergo , Ah , let not learning too commence its foe ! Of old ...
... Sure some to vex , but never all to please : ' Tis what the vicious fear , the virtuous shun ; By fools ' tis hated , and by knaves undone . If wit so much from ignorance undergo , Ah , let not learning too commence its foe ! Of old ...
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Seite 197 - Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! Thou Great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill; And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
Seite 157 - AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot, Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Seite 159 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Seite 197 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than Hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue.
Seite 233 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or...
Seite 28 - But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong: In the bright muse, though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire...
Seite 166 - KNOW, then, thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great ; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act or rest...
Seite 405 - 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.
Seite 167 - 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...
Seite 314 - So impudent I own myself no knave :} So odd, my country's ruin makes me grave. > Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.