The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks, Band 7J. Rivington, 1824 |
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... lived a grave and learned gentleman , by profession an antiquary ; who , among all his invaluable curiosities , esteemed none more highly , than a skin of the true Perga- menian parchment , which hung at the upper end of his hall . On ...
... lived a grave and learned gentleman , by profession an antiquary ; who , among all his invaluable curiosities , esteemed none more highly , than a skin of the true Perga- menian parchment , which hung at the upper end of his hall . On ...
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... lived in a comfortable union for about ten years : but this our sober and orderly pair , without any natural infirmity , and with a constant and frequent * Columesius relates this from Isaac Vossius , in his Opuscul p . 102 . Pope ...
... lived in a comfortable union for about ten years : but this our sober and orderly pair , without any natural infirmity , and with a constant and frequent * Columesius relates this from Isaac Vossius , in his Opuscul p . 102 . Pope ...
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... lived in the age of Augustus ! Then my son might have heard the philosophers dispute in the porticos of the Pa- læstra , and at the same time formed his body and his understanding . " " It is true ( replied Albertus ) , we have no ...
... lived in the age of Augustus ! Then my son might have heard the philosophers dispute in the porticos of the Pa- læstra , and at the same time formed his body and his understanding . " " It is true ( replied Albertus ) , we have no ...
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... lived contented in our native fens , they have often not only committed petty larce- nies upon our borders , but driven the country , and carried off at once whole cart - loads of our manufacture ; to reclaim some of which stolen goods ...
... lived contented in our native fens , they have often not only committed petty larce- nies upon our borders , but driven the country , and carried off at once whole cart - loads of our manufacture ; to reclaim some of which stolen goods ...
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... lived as the dedication and pane- gyric , which are often but the praise of a day , and become by the next , utterly useless , improper , in- decent , and false . This is the more to be lamented , inasmuch as these two are the sorts ...
... lived as the dedication and pane- gyric , which are often but the praise of a day , and become by the next , utterly useless , improper , in- decent , and false . This is the more to be lamented , inasmuch as these two are the sorts ...
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Seite 267 - Hand, and mourn'd his captive Queen. He springs to Vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like Thunder on the prostrate Ace. The Nymph exulting fills with Shouts the Sky, The Walls, the Woods, and long Canals reply.
Seite 274 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Seite 263 - Methinks already I your tears survey, Already hear the horrid things they say, Already see you a degraded toast, And all your honour in a whisper lost! How shall I then your helpless fame defend? 'Twill then be infamy to seem your friend! And shall this prize, th...
Seite 220 - Jerusalem with iniquity: the heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, "Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.
Seite 274 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void...
Seite 387 - It is to the strength of this amazing invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture which is so forcible in Homer, that no man of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him.
Seite 263 - Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain; Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide: Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 'Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th...
Seite 361 - ... had all the speeches been printed without the very names of the persons, I believe one might have applied them with certainty to every speaker.
Seite 361 - whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine too these golden keys, immortal boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy, Of Horror that, and thrilling fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.
Seite 349 - ... adventures. There let him work for twelve books; at the end of which you may take him out ready prepared to conquer, or to marry; it being necessary that the conclusion of an epic poem be fortunate. To make an Episode. — Take any remaining adventure of your former collection, in which you could no way involve your hero; or any unfortunate accident that was too good to be thrown away; and it will be of use applied to any other person, who may be lost and evaporate in the course of the work,...