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... verse , and even rhyme , for two reasons . The one will appear obvious ; that prin- ciples , maxims , or precepts so written , both strike the reader more strongly at first , and are more easily retained by him afterwards : the other ...
... verse , and even rhyme , for two reasons . The one will appear obvious ; that prin- ciples , maxims , or precepts so written , both strike the reader more strongly at first , and are more easily retained by him afterwards : the other ...
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... verse to future age pretend Thou wert my guide , philosopher , and friend ? That , urged by thee , I turn'd the tuneful art From sounds to things , from fancy to the heart ; For wit's false mirror held up nature's light , Show'd erring ...
... verse to future age pretend Thou wert my guide , philosopher , and friend ? That , urged by thee , I turn'd the tuneful art From sounds to things , from fancy to the heart ; For wit's false mirror held up nature's light , Show'd erring ...
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... verses on Mr. Craggs , which conclude the poem , were added , viz . in 1720 . As the third Epistle treated of the extremes of avarice and pro- fusion ; and the fourth took up one particular branch of the latter , namely , the vanity of ...
... verses on Mr. Craggs , which conclude the poem , were added , viz . in 1720 . As the third Epistle treated of the extremes of avarice and pro- fusion ; and the fourth took up one particular branch of the latter , namely , the vanity of ...
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... verse and sculpture bore an equal part , And art reflected images to art . Oh , when shail Britain , conscious of her claim , Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame ? In living medals see her wars enroll'd , And vanquish'd realms supply ...
... verse and sculpture bore an equal part , And art reflected images to art . Oh , when shail Britain , conscious of her claim , Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame ? In living medals see her wars enroll'd , And vanquish'd realms supply ...
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... Verses to the imitator of Ho- race , and of an Epistle to a doctor of Divinity from a Nobleman at Hampton Court ] to attack , in a very extraordinary manner , not only my writings ( of which , being public , the public is judge ) but my ...
... Verses to the imitator of Ho- race , and of an Epistle to a doctor of Divinity from a Nobleman at Hampton Court ] to attack , in a very extraordinary manner , not only my writings ( of which , being public , the public is judge ) but my ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ALEXANDER POPE avarice Balaam Bavius beast beauty bless'd blessing bliss breath Cæsar CARDELIA charms Chartres court cries curse dear divine e'en e'er ease EPISTLE eyes fair fame fate fear flatter folly fool give glory GODFREY KNELLER gold grace grave happiness hate heart Heaven honest honour Horace king knave laugh laws learn'd learned live lord LORD BOLINGBROKE Lord Fanny mankind mind moral muse nature nature's ne'er never numbers o'er once parterre passion Pindaric pleased pleasure poet poor Pope praise pride proud rage reason rhyme rich rise Sappho satire SATIRE IV scarce Self-love sense shade shine Shylock sigh slave smile SMILINDA soft soul strong taste tell thee things thou thought truth Twas verse Vex'd vice virtue wealth Westminster Abbey whate'er Whig whole whores wife wise wretched write
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 12 - 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 108 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Seite 108 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise ; Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Seite 54 - 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...
Seite 18 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam: Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles thro...
Seite 107 - He, who still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left : And he, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, Means not, but blunders round about a meaning...
Seite 20 - That, chang'd through all, and yet in all the same ; 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...
Seite 22 - He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much...
Seite 112 - A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust; Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Seite 12 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights explore, Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar ; Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise ; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can ; But vindicate the ways of God to Man.