The Works of Alexander Pope: PoetryJ. Murray, 1871 |
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... tell me whether he is a proper author to make personal reflections on others . This little author may extol the ancients as much , and as long as he pleases , but he has reason to thank the good gods that he was born a modern , for had ...
... tell me whether he is a proper author to make personal reflections on others . This little author may extol the ancients as much , and as long as he pleases , but he has reason to thank the good gods that he was born a modern , for had ...
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... tell him " where Dennis had hit any blots . " 2 He cared too much for his works to be influenced by the stubborn pride which cannot stoop to confess an error . Where the criticism has not been inspired by malice , authors in general ...
... tell him " where Dennis had hit any blots . " 2 He cared too much for his works to be influenced by the stubborn pride which cannot stoop to confess an error . Where the criticism has not been inspired by malice , authors in general ...
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... tell me , " says Pope , " that there was one way left of excelling ; for though we had several great poets , we never had any one great poet that was correct , and he desired me to make that my study and aim . " Warton calls this " very ...
... tell me , " says Pope , " that there was one way left of excelling ; for though we had several great poets , we never had any one great poet that was correct , and he desired me to make that my study and aim . " Warton calls this " very ...
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... call " exceeds the bounds of poetic licence . 7 Equivocal generation is the pro- duction of animals without parents . Many of the creatures on the To tell ' em would a hundred tongues require , D 2 AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM . 85 35.
... call " exceeds the bounds of poetic licence . 7 Equivocal generation is the pro- duction of animals without parents . Many of the creatures on the To tell ' em would a hundred tongues require , D 2 AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM . 85 35.
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... tell thee what an hundred tongues would tire . " I have often thought , " says the author of the Supplement to the Pro- found , speaking of Pope's couplet , " that one pert fellow's tongue might tire a hundred pair of attend- ing ears ...
... tell thee what an hundred tongues would tire . " I have often thought , " says the author of the Supplement to the Pro- found , speaking of Pope's couplet , " that one pert fellow's tongue might tire a hundred pair of attend- ing ears ...
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Addison admired Æneid ancient appears argument beauty Belinda blessed bliss Bolingbroke called Caryll couplet creatures deism deists Dennis divine doctrine Dryden Dunciad edition Epistle Essay on Criticism ev'n ev'ry evil expression external eyes faith false fame folly fools genius give grace happiness hath heav'n Heloisa to Abelard honour human idea imagination Johnson judgment lady language laws learning Leibnitz letter lines Lock Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Roscommon man's mankind means mind moral nature never nymph o'er object observation passage perfect philosophy pleasure poem poet poet's poetical poetry Pope Pope's pow'r praise precepts pride principle racter Rape reason religion rhyme ruling passion satire says self-love sense shows soul speaks Spence sublime sylphs Thalestris thee things thou thought tion translation true truth verse vice Virgil virtue Voltaire WAKEFIELD Warburton Warton whole words write
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Seite 462 - To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill; And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. 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 424 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right : In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity : All must be false that thwart this one great end ; And all of God, that bless mankind or mend.
Seite 491 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Seite 356 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire; He asks no .angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Seite 365 - Great wits are sure to madness near allied; And thin partitions do their bounds divide: Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Seite 153 - 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 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 'em all.
Seite 207 - What might this be? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Seite 142 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Seite 363 - Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at ev'ry pore? Or quick effluvia darting thro' the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain?
Seite 393 - 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.