Selected Poems of Alexander PopeCrofts, 1926 - 271 Seiten |
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... rule and triumph ; those who have less invention , but are still naïve and original in thought and expression , the Regniers and Lucretiuses , are replaced in their proper sphere , and the tendency is to subordi- nate the dispassionate ...
... rule and triumph ; those who have less invention , but are still naïve and original in thought and expression , the Regniers and Lucretiuses , are replaced in their proper sphere , and the tendency is to subordi- nate the dispassionate ...
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... rule out most Greek sculpture , much of Bach's music , many admired passages in Shakespeare and Browning , the art of Whistler , most architecture , and those indispensable fine arts which beautify our domestic interiors . Obviously ...
... rule out most Greek sculpture , much of Bach's music , many admired passages in Shakespeare and Browning , the art of Whistler , most architecture , and those indispensable fine arts which beautify our domestic interiors . Obviously ...
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... rules of their critics . If we may assume then , for the present , this modern theory that the enjoyment of art is first of all an im- aginative enjoyment of form , let us try it as a clue to eighteenth century taste in poetry . Let us ...
... rules of their critics . If we may assume then , for the present , this modern theory that the enjoyment of art is first of all an im- aginative enjoyment of form , let us try it as a clue to eighteenth century taste in poetry . Let us ...
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... rules the Classicists of course went to extremes , as have also , for example , some modern enthusiastic formulators of dramatic technique since Ibsen . How- ever , the definiteness of the rules does not mean xviii INTRODUCTION.
... rules the Classicists of course went to extremes , as have also , for example , some modern enthusiastic formulators of dramatic technique since Ibsen . How- ever , the definiteness of the rules does not mean xviii INTRODUCTION.
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Alexander Pope Louis Ignatius Bredvold. ever , the definiteness of the rules does not mean that Corneille and Boileau , Dryden , Pope and Johnson , all believed that art can be produced by rules of thumb . It is incorrect , also , to ...
Alexander Pope Louis Ignatius Bredvold. ever , the definiteness of the rules does not mean that Corneille and Boileau , Dryden , Pope and Johnson , all believed that art can be produced by rules of thumb . It is incorrect , also , to ...
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Alexander Pope Balaam beauty blessing blest charms Colley Cibber Court Courthope Critics Dæmons death divine Dryden Dunciad e'er Earl of Burlington ease eighteenth century Epistle Essay on Criticism ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame fate flow'rs Folly fool gen'ral gen'rous genius give glory Gnome grace happy heart Heav'n honour Horace King knave laws learn'd live Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Fanny Lord Hervey mankind mind Moral Essays Muse Nature ne'er never numbers nymph o'er once painted Passion pleas'd pleasure poem poet poetry Pope Pope's pow'r praise pray'r pride proud Queen rage Reason rhyme rich rise rules Sappho Satire Scriblerus Club Self-love sense shine soul spirit Sylphs taste tears Thalestris thee things thou thought thro tremble Truth verse Vice Virtue Walpole Warburton Whig whole Wife wise write
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Seite 13 - 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 11 - And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is still, — The style is excellent; The sense, they humbly take upon content. Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Seite 76 - KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan ; The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed 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 118 - 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 30 - 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 74 - That changed through all, and yet in all the same. Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Seite 159 - Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all see-saw, between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile Antithesis. Amphibious thing! that acting either part, The trifling head or the corrupted heart, Fop at the toilet, flatt'rer at the board, Now trips a Lady, and now struts a Lord.
Seite 82 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Seite 1 - 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 108 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, T