The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorCrissy & Markley, 1851 - 484 Seiten |
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... printed books , the characters of which he would imitate to great perfection . He began to compose verses far- ther back than he could well remember ; and at eight years of age , when he was put under one Taverner , a priest , who ...
... printed books , the characters of which he would imitate to great perfection . He began to compose verses far- ther back than he could well remember ; and at eight years of age , when he was put under one Taverner , a priest , who ...
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... printing and mutilating those letters without his Lordship's knowledge , others to blame him for it as the highest breach of friendship , and the greatest mark of dishonour ; but it would exceed our proposed bounds to enter into the ...
... printing and mutilating those letters without his Lordship's knowledge , others to blame him for it as the highest breach of friendship , and the greatest mark of dishonour ; but it would exceed our proposed bounds to enter into the ...
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... printed without this acknowledgment . The reader who would compare this with Chaucer , may begin with his third book of Fame , there being nothing in the first two books that answers to their title . The poem is introduced in the manner ...
... printed without this acknowledgment . The reader who would compare this with Chaucer , may begin with his third book of Fame , there being nothing in the first two books that answers to their title . The poem is introduced in the manner ...
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... printed , those Du Sueil has bound ! Lo , some are vellum , and the rest as good , For all his lordship knows , but they are wood ! For Locke or Milton , ' tis in vain to look : These shelves admit not any modern book . And now the ...
... printed , those Du Sueil has bound ! Lo , some are vellum , and the rest as good , For all his lordship knows , but they are wood ! For Locke or Milton , ' tis in vain to look : These shelves admit not any modern book . And now the ...
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... printing what I write : But let the fit pass o'er , I'm wise enough To stop my ears to their confounded stuff . In vain bad rhymers all mankind reject , They treat themselves with most profound respect , " Tis to small purpose that you ...
... printing what I write : But let the fit pass o'er , I'm wise enough To stop my ears to their confounded stuff . In vain bad rhymers all mankind reject , They treat themselves with most profound respect , " Tis to small purpose that you ...
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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.