The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life of the AuthorCrosby, Nichols, Lee, 1860 - 578 Seiten |
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... figure those which deserve to be preserved ? Mr. Pope will pardon me if I here oppose those compari- sons , which to me appear very false , and entirely contrary to what the greatest of ancient and modern critics ever thought . " The ...
... figure those which deserve to be preserved ? Mr. Pope will pardon me if I here oppose those compari- sons , which to me appear very false , and entirely contrary to what the greatest of ancient and modern critics ever thought . " The ...
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... figure in the state , while Pope has to expose men of obscure birth and unimportant lives , only distinguish- ed from the herd of mankind by a glimmering of genius , which rendered the greatest part of them more emphatically ...
... figure in the state , while Pope has to expose men of obscure birth and unimportant lives , only distinguish- ed from the herd of mankind by a glimmering of genius , which rendered the greatest part of them more emphatically ...
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... figures rising from the work appear , The various seasons of the rolling year ; And what is that which binds the radiant sky , Where twelve fair signs in beauteous order lie ? DAMON . Then sing by turns , by turns the muses sing : Now ...
... figures rising from the work appear , The various seasons of the rolling year ; And what is that which binds the radiant sky , Where twelve fair signs in beauteous order lie ? DAMON . Then sing by turns , by turns the muses sing : Now ...
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... figures melt away . One science only will one genius fit ; So vast is art , so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar arts , But oft in those confined to single parts . Like kings , we lose the conquests gain'd before , By vain ...
... figures melt away . One science only will one genius fit ; So vast is art , so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar arts , But oft in those confined to single parts . Like kings , we lose the conquests gain'd before , By vain ...
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... figures monstrous and mis - shaped appear , Consider'd singly , or beheld too near , Which , but proportion'd to their light or place , Due distance reconciles to form and grace . A prudent chief not always must display His powers in ...
... figures monstrous and mis - shaped appear , Consider'd singly , or beheld too near , Which , but proportion'd to their light or place , Due distance reconciles to form and grace . A prudent chief not always must display His powers in ...
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