The British Poets, Band 2Little, Brown & Company, 1866 |
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... bear a critic's noble name , Be sure yourself and your own reach to know , How far your genius , taste , and learning go ; Launch not beyond your depth , but be discreet , And mark that point where sense and dulness meet . Nature to all ...
... bear a critic's noble name , Be sure yourself and your own reach to know , How far your genius , taste , and learning go ; Launch not beyond your depth , but be discreet , And mark that point where sense and dulness meet . Nature to all ...
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... bear reproof who merit praise . ' Twere well might critics still this freedom take , But Appius reddens at each word you speak , And stares tremendous , with a threatening eye , Like some fierce tyrant in old tapestry . Fear most to tax ...
... bear reproof who merit praise . ' Twere well might critics still this freedom take , But Appius reddens at each word you speak , And stares tremendous , with a threatening eye , Like some fierce tyrant in old tapestry . Fear most to tax ...
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... bear him company . 4. Go , wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fanciest such ; Say , here he gives too little , there too much ; Destroy all creatures for thy sport ...
... bear him company . 4. Go , wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fanciest such ; Say , here he gives too little , there too much ; Destroy all creatures for thy sport ...
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... bears . Made for his use all creatures if he call , Say what their use , had he the powers of all ? Nature to these without profusion kind , The proper organs , proper powers assign'd ; Each seeming want compensated of course , Here ...
... bears . Made for his use all creatures if he call , Say what their use , had he the powers of all ? Nature to these without profusion kind , The proper organs , proper powers assign'd ; Each seeming want compensated of course , Here ...
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... bear . Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason , man is not a fly . Say , what the use , were finer optics given , T'inspect a mite , not comprehend the heaven ? Or touch , if tremblingly alive all o'er , To smart and ...
... bear . Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason , man is not a fly . Say , what the use , were finer optics given , T'inspect a mite , not comprehend the heaven ? Or touch , if tremblingly alive all o'er , To smart and ...
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Ambrose Philips ANTISTROPHE Balaam beauty behold bless'd blessing bliss breast breath Brobdingnag Cæsar Catiline charms Countess of Suffolk cried critics crown'd dame dear death e'en e'er ease envy EPISTLE ESSAY ON CRITICISM Eurydice Eustace Budgell eyes fair fame fate fire fix'd flame fool gentle gold grace Gulliver's Travels happiness heart Heaven honour Houyhnhnm join'd king knave knight lady learn'd learning live lord lov'd lyre man's mankind mind mortal Muse nature nature's ne'er never numbers nymph o'er once Ovid pain parterre passion Phryne pleas'd pleasure poet Pope praise pride proud rage rais'd reason rise rules sage Sappho seem'd self-love SEMICHORUS sense shade shine sigh skies SMIL soft soul spouse squire taste thee things thou thought true Twas tyrant virtue whate'er whole wife wise youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 47 - Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd 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 152 - The world recedes ; it disappears ! Heaven opens on my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring ! Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! O grave, where is thy victory ? O death, where is thy sting...
Seite 82 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is...
Seite 48 - Created half to rise, and half to fall ; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd ; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world...
Seite 17 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Seite 135 - You show us Rome was glorious, not profuse, And pompous buildings once were things of use; Yet shall, my lord, your just, your noble rules, Fill half the land with imitating fools ; Who random drawings from your sheets shall take; And of one beauty many blunders make...
Seite 46 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name : Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point : This kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on thee.
Seite 102 - twould a saint provoke" (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke), " No, let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.
Seite 17 - whispers through the trees :" If crystal streams " with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with
Seite 85 - FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind...