The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1752 |
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... head - achs , or the want of rhyme ) Stands in the streets , abftracted from the crew , And while he seems to study , thinks of you ; Juft when his fancy points your fprightly eyes , 45 Or fees the blush of foft Parthenia rise , Gay ...
... head - achs , or the want of rhyme ) Stands in the streets , abftracted from the crew , And while he seems to study , thinks of you ; Juft when his fancy points your fprightly eyes , 45 Or fees the blush of foft Parthenia rise , Gay ...
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... Head afide , A Rival's envy ( all in vain ) to hide . This Snuff - Box , --- on the Hinge fee Brilliants shine : This Snuff - Box will I stake ; the Prize is mine , CARDELIA . Alas ! far leffer loffes than I bear 58 MISCELLANIES .
... Head afide , A Rival's envy ( all in vain ) to hide . This Snuff - Box , --- on the Hinge fee Brilliants shine : This Snuff - Box will I stake ; the Prize is mine , CARDELIA . Alas ! far leffer loffes than I bear 58 MISCELLANIES .
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... head , Lies one who ne'er car'd , and ftill cares not a pin What they faid , or may fay of the mortal within : But , who living and dying , ferene still and free , Trufts in Gop , that as well as he was , he fhall be . MEMOIRS Of the ...
... head , Lies one who ne'er car'd , and ftill cares not a pin What they faid , or may fay of the mortal within : But , who living and dying , ferene still and free , Trufts in Gop , that as well as he was , he fhall be . MEMOIRS Of the ...
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... Head of a different Caft from his family . His wife was a Lady of fingular beauty , whom not for that reason only he espoused , but because she was undoubted daughter either of the great Scriverius , or of Gafpar Barthius . It happened ...
... Head of a different Caft from his family . His wife was a Lady of fingular beauty , whom not for that reason only he espoused , but because she was undoubted daughter either of the great Scriverius , or of Gafpar Barthius . It happened ...
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... head . As its colour was white , he took it at first fight for a Swan , and was concluding his fon would be a Poet : but on a nearer view , he perceived it to be fpeckled with black , in the form of letters ; and that it was indeed a ...
... head . As its colour was white , he took it at first fight for a Swan , and was concluding his fon would be a Poet : but on a nearer view , he perceived it to be fpeckled with black , in the form of letters ; and that it was indeed a ...
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Seite 94 - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud and great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had lived, and that he died.
Seite 327 - Locke takes notice of a mother who permitted them to her children, but rewarded or punished them as they treated them well or ill. This was no other than entering them betimes into a daily exercise of humanity, and improving their very diversion to a virtue.
Seite 370 - Odyssey above the ^Eneis; as that the hero is a wiser man, and the action of the one more beneficial to his country than that of the other; or else they blame him for not doing what he never...
Seite 403 - Prose from verse they did not know, and they accordingly printed one for the other throughout the volume.
Seite 393 - Hamlet, enlarged to almost as much again as at first, and many others. I believe the common opinion of his want of learning proceeded from no better ground. This, too, might be thought a praise by some, and to this his errors have as injudiciously been ascribed by others.
Seite 357 - ... evidently, affeCt us not in proportion to thofe of Homer. His characters of valour are much alike...
Seite 355 - This is a field in which no succeeding poets could dispute with Homer; and whatever commendations have been allowed them on this head, are by no means for their invention in having enlarged his circle, but for their judgment in having contracted it. For when the mode of learning changed in following ages, and...
Seite 409 - I will conclude by saying of Shakespeare, that with all his faults, and with all the irregularity of his drama, one may look upon his works, in comparison of those that are more finished and regular, as upon an ancient majestic piece of Gothic architecture, compared with a neat modern building.
Seite 397 - Vati noceat . But however this contention might be carried on by the Partizans on either side, I cannot help thinking these two great Poets were good friends, and lived on amicable terms and in offices of society with each other.
Seite 49 - Love, rais'd on beauty, will like that decay, Our hearts may bear its slender...