The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeD. Appleton, 1869 - 485 Seiten |
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... thought , what pampered refine- ment of sentiment ! It is like ' ooking at the world through a microscope , where everything assumes a new character and a new consequence , -where things are seen in their minutest circumstances and ...
... thought , what pampered refine- ment of sentiment ! It is like ' ooking at the world through a microscope , where everything assumes a new character and a new consequence , -where things are seen in their minutest circumstances and ...
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... thoughts are not our own , because they resemble the ancients , may as well say our faces are not our own because they are like our fathers : and indeed it is very unreason- able , that people should expect us to be scholars , and yet ...
... thoughts are not our own , because they resemble the ancients , may as well say our faces are not our own because they are like our fathers : and indeed it is very unreason- able , that people should expect us to be scholars , and yet ...
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... thought tolerable . I would not be like those authors who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole poem , and vice versû a whole poem for the sake of some particular lines . I believe no one qualification is so ...
... thought tolerable . I would not be like those authors who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole poem , and vice versû a whole poem for the sake of some particular lines . I believe no one qualification is so ...
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... thoughts are plain , yet admit a little quickness and passion , but that short and flowing : the expression humble , yet as pure as the language will afford ; neat , but not florid ; easy , and yet lively . In short , the fable ...
... thoughts are plain , yet admit a little quickness and passion , but that short and flowing : the expression humble , yet as pure as the language will afford ; neat , but not florid ; easy , and yet lively . In short , the fable ...
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... thought imper- fect in some few points . His eclogues are somewhat too long , if we compare them with the ancients ... thoughts , and characters , he comes near to Theocritus himself ; though , notwithstanding all the care he has taken ...
... thought imper- fect in some few points . His eclogues are somewhat too long , if we compare them with the ancients ... thoughts , and characters , he comes near to Theocritus himself ; though , notwithstanding all the care he has taken ...
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Adrastus Æneid ancient Bavius beauty behold blest breast charms court cried critics crown'd divine Dryope Dulness Dunciad e'er eclogue EPISTLE Essay on Criticism eyes fair fame fate fire fix'd flame flowers fool gentle give glory goddess gods grace happy hath head heart Heaven hero honour Iliad John Dennis Jove king knave learn'd learned Leonard Welsted LEWIS THEOBALD live lord mankind mind mortal muse nature ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er once passion pastoral Phoebus plain pleased pleasure poem poet Pope praise pride proud queen rage reign rise round sacred Sappho satire sense shade shine sighs silvan sing skies smiling soft soul sylphs tears Thalestris Thebes thee Theocritus thine things thou thought throne trembling truth Twas verse Virgil virgin virtue wife wings wretched write youth
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Seite 53 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes; Where'er you find 'the cooling western breeze...
Seite 223 - 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 292 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Seite 218 - 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 flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Seite 219 - Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher Death ; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
Seite 220 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Seite 218 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights explore, Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar ; Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise ; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can ; But vindicate the ways of God to Man.
Seite 365 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Seite 24 - Swift fly the years, and rise th' expected morn ! Oh spring to light, auspicious Babe, be born ! See, Nature hastes her earliest wreaths to bring, With all the incense of the breathing spring: See lofty Lebanon his head advance, See nodding forests on the mountains dance : See spicy clouds from lowly Saron rise, And Carmel's flowery top perfumes the skies!
Seite 43 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground.