The Works of Alexander Pope: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... mind , " To get my Warrant quickly fign'd : " Confider ' tis my first requeft.- Be fatisfy'd , I'll do my best : --- Then presently he falls to teize , " You may for certain , if you please ; " I doubt not , if his Lordship knew- " And ...
... mind , " To get my Warrant quickly fign'd : " Confider ' tis my first requeft.- Be fatisfy'd , I'll do my best : --- Then presently he falls to teize , " You may for certain , if you please ; " I doubt not , if his Lordship knew- " And ...
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... mind , But pitied BELISARIUS old and blind ? Was there a Chief but melted at the Sight ? A common Soldier , who but clubb'd his Mite ? NOTES . 5 VER . 6. But pitied Belifarius , etc. ] Nothing was ever more happily imagined than this ...
... mind , But pitied BELISARIUS old and blind ? Was there a Chief but melted at the Sight ? A common Soldier , who but clubb'd his Mite ? NOTES . 5 VER . 6. But pitied Belifarius , etc. ] Nothing was ever more happily imagined than this ...
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... Mind ; Sincere , tho ' prudent ; conftant , yet refign'd ; Honour unchang'd , a Principle profest , Fix'd to one fide , but mod rate to the rest : An honeft Courtier , yet a Patriot too ; Juft to his Prince , and to his Country true ...
... Mind ; Sincere , tho ' prudent ; conftant , yet refign'd ; Honour unchang'd , a Principle profest , Fix'd to one fide , but mod rate to the rest : An honeft Courtier , yet a Patriot too ; Juft to his Prince , and to his Country true ...
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... mind ; So firm , yet foft ; fo ftrong , yet fo refin'd ; Heav'n , as its pureft gold , by Tortures try'd ; The Saint fuftain'd it , but the Woman dy'd . 6 VII . On VII . On the Monument of the Honourable ROBERT DIGBY EPITAPH S. 77.
... mind ; So firm , yet foft ; fo ftrong , yet fo refin'd ; Heav'n , as its pureft gold , by Tortures try'd ; The Saint fuftain'd it , but the Woman dy'd . 6 VII . On VII . On the Monument of the Honourable ROBERT DIGBY EPITAPH S. 77.
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... mind , Lover of peace , and friend of human kind : Go live ! for Heaven's Eternal year is thine , Go , and exalt thy Moral to Divine . And thou , bleft Maid ! attendant on his doom , Penfive haft follow'd to the filent tomb , Steer'd ...
... mind , Lover of peace , and friend of human kind : Go live ! for Heaven's Eternal year is thine , Go , and exalt thy Moral to Divine . And thou , bleft Maid ! attendant on his doom , Penfive haft follow'd to the filent tomb , Steer'd ...
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Seite 290 - Homer makes us hearers, and Virgil leaves us readers. If in the next place we take a view of the sentiments, the same presiding faculty is eminent in the sublimity and spirit of his thoughts. Longinus has given his opinion, that it was in this part Homer principally excelled.
Seite 81 - 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 liv'd, and that he died.
Seite 196 - Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy!
Seite 280 - I know an eminent cook, who beautified his country seat with a coronation dinner in greens ; where you see the champion flourishing on horseback at one end of the table, and the queen in perpetual youth at the other.
Seite 309 - ... to consider him attentively in comparison with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns.
Seite 284 - If some things are too luxuriant it is owing to the richness of the soil; and if others are not arrived to perfection or maturity, it is only because they are overrun and oppressed by those of a stronger nature.
Seite 327 - Prose from verse they did not know, and they accordingly printed one for the other throughout the volume.
Seite 288 - Every one has something so singularly his own, that no painter could have distinguished them more by their features, than the poet has by their manners.
Seite 289 - Idomeneus a plain, direct soldier ; in Sarpedon, a gallant and generous one. Nor is this judicious and...
Seite 331 - I will conclude by saying of Shakespear, 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...