Two Lectures on the Poetry of Pope, and on His Own Travels in America: Delivered to the Leeds Mechanics' Institution & Literary Society, December 5th and 6th, 1850Simpkin, Marshall, 1851 - 44 Seiten |
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... character- istic generosity and kindness , presented by the Noble Author to the Committee of the " Yorkshire Union of Mechanics ' Institutes , " who had asked permission to send a copy to each Institute in the Union , and to publish ...
... character- istic generosity and kindness , presented by the Noble Author to the Committee of the " Yorkshire Union of Mechanics ' Institutes , " who had asked permission to send a copy to each Institute in the Union , and to publish ...
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... character and reputation of Pope , as a poet , had sunk , in general cotemporary estimation , considerably below their previous , and their proper level . I felt ruffled at this , as an injustice to an author whom my childhood had been ...
... character and reputation of Pope , as a poet , had sunk , in general cotemporary estimation , considerably below their previous , and their proper level . I felt ruffled at this , as an injustice to an author whom my childhood had been ...
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... character as a critic , is to state frankly what I do not claim for my client , the late Alexander Pope . I do not , then , pretend to place him on the very highest pedestal of poetry , among the few foremost of the tuneful monarchs and ...
... character as a critic , is to state frankly what I do not claim for my client , the late Alexander Pope . I do not , then , pretend to place him on the very highest pedestal of poetry , among the few foremost of the tuneful monarchs and ...
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... character , I fear it must be allowed , were at times disfigured by envy , resentment , and littleness . Compared , however , with most of his pre- decessors of the reign of Charles II . , and with many of his own cotemporaries , both ...
... character , I fear it must be allowed , were at times disfigured by envy , resentment , and littleness . Compared , however , with most of his pre- decessors of the reign of Charles II . , and with many of his own cotemporaries , both ...
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... character is rapt , vehement , abrupt ; his is composed , polished , methodical ; his haunt would not be the mountain top , or the foaming cataract , but the smooth parterre and the gilded saloon . You may prefer one bent of mind , as ...
... character is rapt , vehement , abrupt ; his is composed , polished , methodical ; his haunt would not be the mountain top , or the foaming cataract , but the smooth parterre and the gilded saloon . You may prefer one bent of mind , as ...
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Seite 16 - 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; View him with scornful, yev with jealous eyes.
Seite 11 - 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 them all.
Seite 21 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood! The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line...
Seite 21 - 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 touch'd and shamed by ridicule alone.
Seite 19 - But why then publish? Granville the polite, And knowing Walsh, would tell me I could write; Well-natured Garth inflamed with early praise; And Congreve loved, and Swift endured my lays; The courtly Talbot, Somers, Sheffield read; Ev'n mitred Rochester would nod the head, And St. John's self (great Dryden's friends before) With open arms received one poet more.
Seite 18 - Of all her dears she never slander'd one, But cares not if a thousand are undone. Would Chloe know if you're alive or dead ? She bids her footman put it in her head. Chloe is prudent — Would you too be wise ? Then never break your heart when Chloe dies.
Seite 11 - True wit is nature to advantage dressed, — What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Seite 11 - For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best.
Seite 21 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart ; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. To Him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all.
Seite 11 - Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest; The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.