The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe, Band 1Longman, Brown and Company, 1847 |
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... interest and information in that after which we inquire , as that of a soldier in his battles , or a politician in his schemes . In human affairs , every thing is permanent in proportion as it is connected with intellect ; and whilst ...
... interest and information in that after which we inquire , as that of a soldier in his battles , or a politician in his schemes . In human affairs , every thing is permanent in proportion as it is connected with intellect ; and whilst ...
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... interest of his virtues that they should ; nor indeed could they be concealed if we were so minded ; for they shine through his virtues , no man being more a dupe to the specious appearances of virtue in others . In a word , I mean not ...
... interest of his virtues that they should ; nor indeed could they be concealed if we were so minded ; for they shine through his virtues , no man being more a dupe to the specious appearances of virtue in others . In a word , I mean not ...
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... interest which they could not derive from any other source . It must however be observed , that the most eminent of Pope's biographers has not only omitted to avail himself of this immense fund of information , but has objected to the ...
... interest which they could not derive from any other source . It must however be observed , that the most eminent of Pope's biographers has not only omitted to avail himself of this immense fund of information , but has objected to the ...
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... interest to be of another mind , that you must pardon me if I cannot forbear telling you a few notions of mine in opposition to that opinion . In the first place , it is observable that the love we bear to our friends , is generally ...
... interest to be of another mind , that you must pardon me if I cannot forbear telling you a few notions of mine in opposition to that opinion . In the first place , it is observable that the love we bear to our friends , is generally ...
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... interest- ing to every reader of taste . It may also be observed , that Cromwell was the first of Pope's correspondents , to whom he could write on terms of freedom and equa- lity ; on which account his letters will be found to fur ...
... interest- ing to every reader of taste . It may also be observed , that Cromwell was the first of Pope's correspondents , to whom he could write on terms of freedom and equa- lity ; on which account his letters will be found to fur ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 135 - 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...
Seite 168 - For forms of government let fools contest: Whate'er is best administer'd is best: For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right; In faith and hope the world will disagree.
Seite 8 - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky...
Seite 159 - Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more ; Such, if there be, who loves so long, so well ; Let him our sad, our tender story tell ! The well-sung woes will sooth my pensive ghost ; He best can paint them who shall feel them most ! THE TEMPLE OF FAME.
Seite 441 - Horace, and, though lean, am short, Ammon's great son one shoulder had too high, Such Ovid's nose, and "Sir! you have an eye"— Go on, obliging creatures, make me see All that disgraced my betters, met in me. Say for my comfort, languishing in bed, "Just so immortal Maro held his head:" And when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago.
Seite 116 - Iliad, because he had looked over Mr. Tickell's, but could wish to have the benefit of his observations on my second, which I had then finished, and which Mr. Tickell had not touched upon.
Seite 7 - Bestia's from the throne. Born to no pride, inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious through his age.
Seite 135 - The next day, while I was heated with what I had heard, I wrote a letter to Mr. Addison, to let him know that I was not unacquainted with this behaviour of his; that if I was to speak severely of him in return for it, it should not be in such a dirty way; that I should rather tell him himself fairly of his faults, and allow his good qualities; and that it should be something in the following manner.
Seite 195 - Thy reliques, Rowe, to this fair urn we trust, And sacred, place by Dryden's awful dust; Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies, , To which thy tomb shall guide inquiring eyes. . '• ' Peace to thy gentle shade, and endless rest! Blest in thy genius, in thy love too blest ! One grateful woman to thy fame supplies What a whole thankless land to his denies.
Seite 74 - The numerous and violent claps of the whig party on the one side of the theatre, were echoed back by the tories on the other; while the author sweated behind the scenes with concern to find their applause proceeding more from the hand than the head.