The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeBernh. Tauchnitz Jun, 1848 - 305 Seiten |
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... ancients ; but what he has mixed of his own with theirs , is no way inferior to what he has taken from them . It is not flattery at all to say , that Virgil had written nothing so good at his age . ' His Preface is very judicious and ...
... ancients ; but what he has mixed of his own with theirs , is no way inferior to what he has taken from them . It is not flattery at all to say , that Virgil had written nothing so good at his age . ' His Preface is very judicious and ...
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... ancient sort of poetry was probably pastoral . It is natural to imagine , that the leisure of those ancient shepherds admitting and inviting some diversion , none was so proper to that soli- tary and sedentary life as singing ; and that ...
... ancient sort of poetry was probably pastoral . It is natural to imagine , that the leisure of those ancient shepherds admitting and inviting some diversion , none was so proper to that soli- tary and sedentary life as singing ; and that ...
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... age , and the last of his language . Among the moderns , their success has been greatest who have most endeavoured to make these ancients their pattern . The most considerable genius appears in the famous Tasso , PASTORALS .
... age , and the last of his language . Among the moderns , their success has been greatest who have most endeavoured to make these ancients their pattern . The most considerable genius appears in the famous Tasso , PASTORALS .
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... ancients . Spenser's Calendar , in Mr. Dryden's opinion , is the most complete work of this kind which any nation has produced ever since the time of Virgil : not but that he may be thought imperfect in some few points . His eclogues ...
... ancients . Spenser's Calendar , in Mr. Dryden's opinion , is the most complete work of this kind which any nation has produced ever since the time of Virgil : not but that he may be thought imperfect in some few points . His eclogues ...
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... ancient frauds shall fail ; Returning Justice ( d ) lift aloft her scale ; Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend , And white - robed Innocence from heaven descend . Swift fly the years , and rise the expected morn ! Oh spring to ...
... ancient frauds shall fail ; Returning Justice ( d ) lift aloft her scale ; Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend , And white - robed Innocence from heaven descend . Swift fly the years , and rise the expected morn ! Oh spring to ...
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ALEXANDER POPE ancient beauty behold bless bless'd bliss blush breast breath bright Cæsar charms courser cried crown'd Cynthus DAPHNIS dear death e'en e'er earth ease eclogue ELOISA TO ABELARD EPISTLE eternal Eurydice eyes fair fame fate fire fix'd flame flowers fool gentle glory Gnome gold grace groves happy heart Heaven honour kings knave learn'd learning live lord Lord Bolingbroke lyre maid mankind mind mortal mourn muse nature ne'er night numbers nymph o'er once pain pass'd passion pastoral plain pleased pleasure poets Pope praise pride proud rage reason rise rules sacred Sappho Semichorus sense shade shine sighs sing skies smiling soft soul swell Sylphs tears Thalestris thee Theocritus thine thou thought trees trembling Umbriel Virgil virgin virtue Westminster Abbey wife William Trumbull winds wise youth