The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorCrissy & Markley, 1851 - 484 Seiten |
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... learned very early to read , took great delight in it , and taught himself to write by copying after printed books , the characters of which he would imitate to great perfection . He began to compose verses far- ther back than he could ...
... learned very early to read , took great delight in it , and taught himself to write by copying after printed books , the characters of which he would imitate to great perfection . He began to compose verses far- ther back than he could ...
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... learned languages , to which he soon after added the French and Italian . Upon his retreat to the forest , he became first ac- quainted with the writings of Waller , Spenser , and Dryden ; in the last of which he immediately found what ...
... learned languages , to which he soon after added the French and Italian . Upon his retreat to the forest , he became first ac- quainted with the writings of Waller , Spenser , and Dryden ; in the last of which he immediately found what ...
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... learned lady was not without a sense of the injury , and took an oppor- tunity of discovering her resentment . 66 Upon finishing ( says she ) the second edition of my translation of Homer , a particular friend sent me a translation of ...
... learned lady was not without a sense of the injury , and took an oppor- tunity of discovering her resentment . 66 Upon finishing ( says she ) the second edition of my translation of Homer , a particular friend sent me a translation of ...
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... learned store , Consults the dead , and lives past ages o'er : Or wandering thoughtful in the silent wood , Attends the duties of the wise and good , T'observe a mean , be to himself a friend , To follow Nature , and regard his end ; Or ...
... learned store , Consults the dead , and lives past ages o'er : Or wandering thoughtful in the silent wood , Attends the duties of the wise and good , T'observe a mean , be to himself a friend , To follow Nature , and regard his end ; Or ...
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... learned smile . Unlucky , as Fungosa in the play , These sparks with awkward vanity display What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; And but so mimic ancient wits at best , As apes our grandsires in their doublets dress'd . In words ...
... learned smile . Unlucky , as Fungosa in the play , These sparks with awkward vanity display What the fine gentleman wore yesterday ; And but so mimic ancient wits at best , As apes our grandsires in their doublets dress'd . In words ...
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Addison Adrastus ALEXANDER POPE ancient bard Bavius beauty behold bless'd breast charms Cibber court cried critics Curll Dennis divine Dryden Dulness Dunciad e'en e'er Edmund Curll epigram EPISTLE Essay on Criticism eyes fair fame fate fire fix'd flame fool genius gentle give glory goddess grace happy hath head heart Heaven hero Homer honour Iliad king knave learn'd learned live lord Lord Bolingbroke mankind mind moral muse nature ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er once passion pleased pleasure poem poet Pope praise pride proud queen rage REMARKS rise sacred Sappho satire Scribl sense shade shine sighs sing skies smile soft soul Sylphs tears Thalestris Thebes thee thine things thou thought throne trembling true truth Twas verse Virgil virtue Westminster Abbey wife wise words wretched write youth
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Seite 11 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Seite 240 - KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer...
Seite 231 - Awake, my ST JOHN ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. Let us (since Life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A Wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot; Or Garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Seite 108 - T' inclose the Lock ; now joins it, to divide. Ev'n then, before the fatal engine closed, A wretched sylph too fondly interposed ; Fate urged the shears, and cut the sylph in twain, (But airy substance soon unites again;) The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, for ever, and for ever ! Then flash'd the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th
Seite 237 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Seite 55 - Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused ; Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Seite 103 - A brighter wash ; to curl their waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs ; Nay, oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a flounce, or add a furbelow.
Seite 264 - Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own : Condemn'd in business or in arts to drudge, Without a second, or without a judge : Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land ? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
Seite 120 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Seite 117 - Rather than so, ah let me still survive, And burn in Cupid's flames — but burn alive. Restore the Lock ! she cries ; and all around, Restore the Lock ! the vaulted roofs rebound.