The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton, Band 1A. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, C. Bathurst, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, J. Richardson, B. Law, S. Crowder, T. Longman, T. Field, and T. Caslon, 1760 |
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... reasons and pretences , or troubled with ex- cufes . I confefs it was want of confideration that made me an author ; I writ because it amu- sed me ; I corrected because it was as pleasant to me to correct as to write ; and I published ...
... reasons and pretences , or troubled with ex- cufes . I confefs it was want of confideration that made me an author ; I writ because it amu- sed me ; I corrected because it was as pleasant to me to correct as to write ; and I published ...
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... Reason these pieces are not more cor- rect , is owing to the confideration how short a time they , and I , have to live : One may be ashamed to confume half one's days in bringing sense and rhyme together ; and what Critic can be fo ...
... Reason these pieces are not more cor- rect , is owing to the confideration how short a time they , and I , have to live : One may be ashamed to confume half one's days in bringing sense and rhyme together ; and what Critic can be fo ...
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... Reason and of Liberty . Nor Baie now , nor Umbria's plain they love , Nor on the banks of Nar , or Mincio rove ; To Thames's flow'ry borders they retire , And kindle in thy breast the Roman fire . 15 So in the shades , where chear'd ...
... Reason and of Liberty . Nor Baie now , nor Umbria's plain they love , Nor on the banks of Nar , or Mincio rove ; To Thames's flow'ry borders they retire , And kindle in thy breast the Roman fire . 15 So in the shades , where chear'd ...
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... reason his expreffion is fome- times not concise enough : for the Tetrastic has obliged him to extend his sense to the length of four lines , which would have been more closely confined in the Couplet . 1 Dedication to Virg . Ecl . P ...
... reason his expreffion is fome- times not concise enough : for the Tetrastic has obliged him to extend his sense to the length of four lines , which would have been more closely confined in the Couplet . 1 Dedication to Virg . Ecl . P ...
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... for example ) have nothing but their Titles to diftin- guish them . The reason is evident , because the year has not that variety in it to furnish every month with a particular defcription , as it may season ON PASTORAL POETRY . 57.
... for example ) have nothing but their Titles to diftin- guish them . The reason is evident , because the year has not that variety in it to furnish every month with a particular defcription , as it may season ON PASTORAL POETRY . 57.
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Seite 243 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Seite 146 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.
Seite 261 - For, that sad moment, when the sylphs withdrew^ And Ariel weeping from Belinda flew, Umbriel, a dusky, melancholy sprite, As ever sullied the fair face of light, Down to the central earth, his proper scene, Repair'd to search the gloomy cave of Spleen.
Seite 253 - The rebel Knave, who dares his prince engage, Proves the just victim of his royal rage.
Seite 186 - Some to Conceit alone their taste confine, And glitt'ring thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; 290 Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets like painters, thus, unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, 295 And hide with ornaments their want of art.
Seite 245 - Their fluid bodies half dissolv'd in light. Loose to the wind their airy garments flew, Thin glitt'ring textures of the filmy dew, Dipt in the richest tincture of the skies, Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes, While ev'ry beam new transient colours flings, Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings.
Seite 236 - Soft yielding minds to Water glide away, And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental Tea. The graver Prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of mischief still on Earth to roam. The light Coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of Air.
Seite 254 - He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts the sky...
Seite 98 - The swain in barren deserts with surprise Sees lilies spring, and sudden verdure rise ; And starts, amidst the thirsty wilds to hear New falls of water murmuring in his ear. On rifted rocks, the dragon's late abodes, The green reed trembles, and the bulrush nods.
Seite 262 - Here living tea-pots stand, one arm held out, One bent ; the handle this, and that the spout...