The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Compiled from Original Manuscripts; with a Critical Essay on His Writings and GeniusC. Bathurst, H. Woodfall, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, W. Johnston, B. White, T. Caslon, T. Longman, B. Law, Johnson and Payne, S. Bladon, T. Cadell, and the executors of A. Millar., 1769 - 578 Seiten |
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... happy in cultivating , improving , and preferving , a friendship with writers of repu- tation , though he fometimes gave offence by the ingenuous candour and freedom , which he himself fo ftrongly recommends in the follow- ing lines ...
... happy in cultivating , improving , and preferving , a friendship with writers of repu- tation , though he fometimes gave offence by the ingenuous candour and freedom , which he himself fo ftrongly recommends in the follow- ing lines ...
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... 'er the Elyfian flow'rs ; By thofe happy fouls who dwell " In yellow meads of Afphodel , " Or Amaranthine bow'rs ; See Elements of Criticifm , " By 66 " By the heroes armed fhades , Glitt'ring through ALEXANDER POPE , Esq . 63.
... 'er the Elyfian flow'rs ; By thofe happy fouls who dwell " In yellow meads of Afphodel , " Or Amaranthine bow'rs ; See Elements of Criticifm , " By 66 " By the heroes armed fhades , Glitt'ring through ALEXANDER POPE , Esq . 63.
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... favage fons controul , " And Athens rifing near the pole ! " Till fome new Tyrant lifts his purple hand , " And civil madness tears them from the land . " F In In the two laft lines , there is a happy ALEXANDER POPE , Esq . 65.
... favage fons controul , " And Athens rifing near the pole ! " Till fome new Tyrant lifts his purple hand , " And civil madness tears them from the land . " F In In the two laft lines , there is a happy ALEXANDER POPE , Esq . 65.
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... happy and noble combination of imagery and fentiment . But the next chorus affords a beauty of the softer kind , where the poet thus feelingly de- fcribes the delights of connubial love . " Oh fource of ev'ry focial tye , " United with ...
... happy and noble combination of imagery and fentiment . But the next chorus affords a beauty of the softer kind , where the poet thus feelingly de- fcribes the delights of connubial love . " Oh fource of ev'ry focial tye , " United with ...
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... happy illuftra- tion , wherein he gives a juft definition of liberty ; from whence we may perceive how effentially it differs from that licentiousness , which too often ufurps its name and character . " Nature , like Liberty , is but ...
... happy illuftra- tion , wherein he gives a juft definition of liberty ; from whence we may perceive how effentially it differs from that licentiousness , which too often ufurps its name and character . " Nature , like Liberty , is but ...
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AARON HILL addreffed admirable affured againſt beautiful becauſe beft beſt cenfure character compofition critic Dean Swift defcribed defcription defign defire difplayed Dunciad effay effayift efteemed epiftle ev'ry excellent expreffed fafe faid fame fatire fays feems fenfe fenfible fentiments ferve feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince fincere firft firſt fome foon fpeaking fpirit friendſhip ftate ftill ftriking ftrong fubject fublime fuch fuperior fuppofed fure genius himſelf honour Iliad illuftrated inftance itſelf John Searl judgment juft juſt laft laſt leaft learned lefs letter likewife Lord Lord Bolingbroke merit mind moft moral moſt muft muſt myſelf nature never nevertheleſs numbers obferves occafion paffage paffed paffion perfon piece pleaſed pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry POPE POPE's praiſe prefent profe publiſhed purpoſe racter reafon refpect reft ridicule ſay ſeems ſpeak tafte thefe themſelves theſe lines thofe thoſe thought tion tranflation uſed verfe virtue whofe writings
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Seite 265 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Seite 231 - 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 123 - In some lone isle, or distant northern land; Where the gilt chariot never marks the way, Where none learn ombre, none e'er taste bohea!
Seite 231 - 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; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err...
Seite 192 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Seite 124 - Who would not scorn what Housewife's Cares produce, Or who would learn one earthly Thing of Use ? To patch, nay ogle, might become a Saint, Nor could it sure be such a Sin to paint. But since, alas ! frail Beauty must decay...
Seite 163 - Come, Abelard ! for what hast thou to dread ? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature stands check'd ; Religion disapproves ; Ev'n thou art cold — yet Eloisa loves. 260 Ah hopeless, lasting flames ! like those that burn To light the dead, and warm th
Seite 381 - But chief her shrine where naked Venus keeps, And Cupids ride the Lion of the Deeps; Where, eas'd of Fleets, the Adriatic main Wafts the smooth Eunuch and enamour'd swain.
Seite 80 - She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For, as in bodies, thus in souls we find, What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Seite 239 - Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod; The state of Nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man.