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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Seite 148
... wish to imprefs . Eloifa , who is fuppofed to be furveying the gloom around her , and meditating on the sub- ject of her forrow , thus breaks forth- " In thefe deep folitudes and awful cells , " Where heav'nly - penfive Contemplation ...
... wish to imprefs . Eloifa , who is fuppofed to be furveying the gloom around her , and meditating on the sub- ject of her forrow , thus breaks forth- " In thefe deep folitudes and awful cells , " Where heav'nly - penfive Contemplation ...
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... wish without her fears impart , " Excufe the blufh , and pour out all the heart , " Speed the foft intercourse from foul to foul , " And waft a figh from Indus to the Pole . " From these beautiful encomiums on the plea- fures of ...
... wish without her fears impart , " Excufe the blufh , and pour out all the heart , " Speed the foft intercourse from foul to foul , " And waft a figh from Indus to the Pole . " From these beautiful encomiums on the plea- fures of ...
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... wishes him to attend her in a character less paffionate , and rather to perform the duties of his holy function , in her dying moments . " Ah no --- in facred veftments may'ft thou " ftand , " The hallow'd taper trembling in thy hand ...
... wishes him to attend her in a character less paffionate , and rather to perform the duties of his holy function , in her dying moments . " Ah no --- in facred veftments may'ft thou " ftand , " The hallow'd taper trembling in thy hand ...
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... wishes that they may be buried in one grave ; and prefuming that two wandering lovers may , ages hence , chance to gaze on their tomb in the Paraclete ; fhe fuppofes , that , touched with mutual pity , they may make the following tender ...
... wishes that they may be buried in one grave ; and prefuming that two wandering lovers may , ages hence , chance to gaze on their tomb in the Paraclete ; fhe fuppofes , that , touched with mutual pity , they may make the following tender ...
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... wishes to ferve his learned and valuable friend , continues thus- " But I live in a time when benefits are not in the power " of an honeft man to bestow ; nor indeed of an honest man " to receive , confidering on what terms they are ...
... wishes to ferve his learned and valuable friend , continues thus- " But I live in a time when benefits are not in the power " of an honeft man to bestow ; nor indeed of an honest man " to receive , confidering on what terms they are ...
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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.