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... whole ; Each motion guides , and every nerve sustains , Itself unseen , but in th ' effects remains . Some , to whom Heaven in wit has been profuse , Want as much more to turn it to its use ; For wit and judgment often are at strife ...
... whole ; Each motion guides , and every nerve sustains , Itself unseen , but in th ' effects remains . Some , to whom Heaven in wit has been profuse , Want as much more to turn it to its use ; For wit and judgment often are at strife ...
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... whole . Critics in wit , language , versification only . Being too hard to please , or too apt to admire . Partiality - too much love to a sect - to the ancients or moderns . Prejudice or prevention . Singularity . Inconstancy . Party ...
... whole . Critics in wit , language , versification only . Being too hard to please , or too apt to admire . Partiality - too much love to a sect - to the ancients or moderns . Prejudice or prevention . Singularity . Inconstancy . Party ...
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... whole , nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves , and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose , for that malignant dull delight , The generous pleasure to be charm'd with wit . But in such lays as neither ebb nor flow , Correctly ...
... whole , nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves , and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose , for that malignant dull delight , The generous pleasure to be charm'd with wit . But in such lays as neither ebb nor flow , Correctly ...
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... whole at once is bold and regular . Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see , Thinks what ne'er was , nor is , nor e'er shall be . In every work regard the writer's end , Since none can compass more than they intend ; And if the means ...
... whole at once is bold and regular . Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see , Thinks what ne'er was , nor is , nor e'er shall be . In every work regard the writer's end , Since none can compass more than they intend ; And if the means ...
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... whole visible world a universal order and gradation in the sensual and mental faculties is observed , which causes a subordination of creature to creature , and Of the Nature and State of Man with respect to the Universe.
... whole visible world a universal order and gradation in the sensual and mental faculties is observed , which causes a subordination of creature to creature , and Of the Nature and State of Man with respect to the Universe.
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ALEXANDER POPE Ambrose Philips ANTISTROPHE Balaam beauty behold bless'd blessing bliss breast breath 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 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 pleas'd pleasure poet Pope praise pride proud rage rais'd reason rise rules sage Sappho seem'd 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
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 152 - 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...
Seite 82 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is...
Seite 85 - 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 17 - 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.
Seite 6 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear...
Seite 12 - Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise!
Seite 39 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Seite 36 - Say first, of God above or man below What can we reason but from what we know ? Of man what see we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer ? Through worlds unnumber'd though the God be known, Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
Seite 46 - 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.
Seite 17 - The reader's threatened (not in vain) with 'sleep'. Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.