The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With Memoir and NotesAmerican News Company, 1899 - 485 Seiten |
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... reasons specified in the preface to their Miscellanies , to publish such little Pieces of theirs , as had casually got abroad , there was added to them the " Treatise of the Bathos , or the Art of Sinking in Poetry . ' It happened ...
... reasons specified in the preface to their Miscellanies , to publish such little Pieces of theirs , as had casually got abroad , there was added to them the " Treatise of the Bathos , or the Art of Sinking in Poetry . ' It happened ...
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... reasons and pretences , or troubled with excuses . I confess it was want of consideration that made me an author ; I writ because it amused me ; I corrected because it was as pleasant to me to correct ... reason to THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE . 3.
... reasons and pretences , or troubled with excuses . I confess it was want of consideration that made me an author ; I writ because it amused me ; I corrected because it was as pleasant to me to correct ... reason to THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE . 3.
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... reason these pieces are not more correct , is owing to the consideration how short a time they , and I , have to live : one may be ashamed to consume half one's days in bringing sense and rhyme together : and what critic can be so ...
... reason these pieces are not more correct , is owing to the consideration how short a time they , and I , have to live : one may be ashamed to consume half one's days in bringing sense and rhyme together : and what critic can be so ...
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... reason his expression is sometimes not concise enough ; for the Tetrastic has obliged him to extend his sense to the length of four lines , which would have been more closely con- fined in the couplet . In the manners , thoughts , and ...
... reason his expression is sometimes not concise enough ; for the Tetrastic has obliged him to extend his sense to the length of four lines , which would have been more closely con- fined in the couplet . In the manners , thoughts , and ...
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... reason is evident , because the year has not that variety in it to furnish every month with a particular description , as it may every season . Of the following eclogues I shall only say that these four comprehend all the subjects which ...
... reason is evident , because the year has not that variety in it to furnish every month with a particular description , as it may every season . Of the following eclogues I shall only say that these four comprehend all the subjects which ...
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Adrastus ancient bard Bavius beauty behold blest breast charms Cibber court cried critics crown'd divine Dryope Dulness Dunciad e'er eclogue EPISTLE Essay on Criticism eyes fair fame fate fire fix'd flame flowers fool genius gentle give glory goddess gods grace happy hath head heart Heaven hero honour Iliad John Dennis king knave learn'd learned Leonard Welsted LEWIS THEOBALD live lord mankind Matthew Concanen mind mortal muse nature ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er once passion pastoral plain pleased pleasure poem poet Pope praise pride proud queen rage rise round sacred Sappho satire sense shade shine sighs silvan sing skies soft soul sylphs tears Thalestris Thebes thee Theocritus thine things thou thought throne trembling truth Twas verse Virgil virgin virtue wife wings wise wretched write youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 213 - Heaven from all creatures hides the Book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer Being here below? 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 219 - Chaos of Thought and Passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; 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 224 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Seite 68 - Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw; Or stain her honour or her new brocade; Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball ; Or whether Heaven has doomed that Shock must fall.
Seite 214 - Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar ; Wait the great teacher Death ; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that Hope to be thy blessing now.
Seite 69 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home ; Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Seite 50 - 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 ; Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine but the music there. These equal syllables alone require...
Seite 26 - See, a long race thy spacious courts adorn; See future sons, and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks on every side arise, Demanding life, impatient for the skies...
Seite 218 - All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, whatever is, is right.
Seite 218 - Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...