The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by R. Carruthers, Band 31853 |
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... kind than ever was writ ; yet , when I read it with those vain - glorious encumbrances of notes and remarks upon it , & c .-- it is amazing , that you , who have writ with such masterly spirit upon the ruling passion , should be so ...
... kind than ever was writ ; yet , when I read it with those vain - glorious encumbrances of notes and remarks upon it , & c .-- it is amazing , that you , who have writ with such masterly spirit upon the ruling passion , should be so ...
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... kind , formerly laid by for that end , may make no unpleasant addition to the future impressions of this poem . 66 ADVERTISEMENT PRINTED IN THE JOURNALS , 1730 . WHEREAS , upon occasion of certain pieces relating to the gentlemen of the ...
... kind , formerly laid by for that end , may make no unpleasant addition to the future impressions of this poem . 66 ADVERTISEMENT PRINTED IN THE JOURNALS , 1730 . WHEREAS , upon occasion of certain pieces relating to the gentlemen of the ...
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... kind ) to the humorous notes of Scriblerus , and even to those written by Mr. Cleland , Dr. Arbuthnot , and others . I had lately the pleasure to pass some months with the author in the country , where I prevailed upon him to do what I ...
... kind ) to the humorous notes of Scriblerus , and even to those written by Mr. Cleland , Dr. Arbuthnot , and others . I had lately the pleasure to pass some months with the author in the country , where I prevailed upon him to do what I ...
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... kind . The observations follow one another , like those in Horace's Art of Poetry , without that methodical regularity which would have been requisite in a prose writer . They are some of them uncommon , but such as the reader must ...
... kind . The observations follow one another , like those in Horace's Art of Poetry , without that methodical regularity which would have been requisite in a prose writer . They are some of them uncommon , but such as the reader must ...
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... kind concern and skill has weav'd A silken web ; and ne'er shall fade Its colours : gently has he laid The mantle o'er thy sad distress , And Venus shall the texture bless , " & c . Come we now to his translation of the Iliad ...
... kind concern and skill has weav'd A silken web ; and ne'er shall fade Its colours : gently has he laid The mantle o'er thy sad distress , And Venus shall the texture bless , " & c . Come we now to his translation of the Iliad ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abused admire Æneid alludes Ambrose Philips ancient arts Bavius behold blest bookseller called character Cibber Cleland Codrus Colley Cibber Concanen court Curll declared Dennis divine Dryden dull Dulness dunces Dunciad Edmund Curll Eliza Haywood epic epigram Essay on Criticism eyes fame favour fool former editions genius gentleman Gildon give goddess happy hath head Heaven hero Homer honour Ibid Iliad James Moore Smythe King labour laureate learned LEONARD WELSTED letters LEWIS THEOBALD lines living Lord madness mankind manner Matthew Concanen Mist's Journal moral Muse nature never notes o'er octavo Oldmixon passage passion persons poem poet poet's poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise Pref preface printed prose published Queen reader reason reign saith satire Scriblerus Shakspeare soul Swift thee Theobald things thou Tibbald translation true truth verse Virgil virtue Warburton Welsted whole words writ writing wrote
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 284 - In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity : All must be false that thwart this one great end, And all of God that bless mankind or mend. Man, like the generous vine, supported lives ; The strength he gains is from th
Seite 261 - 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...
Seite 252 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Seite 291 - When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by ? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging wall ? But still this world (so fitted for the knave) Contents us not.
Seite 3 - Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word ; Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Seite 271 - Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...
Seite 298 - See the sole bliss heav'n could on all bestow ! Which who but feels can taste, but thinks can know: Yet poor with fortune, and with learning blind, The bad must miss, the good, untaught, will find; 330 Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through nature up to nature's God: Pursues that chain which links th...