The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life of the AuthorPhillips & Sampson, 1848 |
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... whole , ver . 233 to 288. Critics in wit , language , versification , only , 288 , 305 , 339 , & c . 4 . Being too hard to please , or too apt to admire , ver . 384 . 5. Partiality - too much love to a sect - to the ancients or moderns ...
... whole , ver . 233 to 288. Critics in wit , language , versification , only , 288 , 305 , 339 , & c . 4 . Being too hard to please , or too apt to admire , ver . 384 . 5. Partiality - too much love to a sect - to the ancients or moderns ...
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... whole , nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves , and rapture warms the mind Nor lose , for that malignant dull delight , The generous pleasure to be charm'd with wit . But , in such lays as neither ebb nor flow , Correctly ...
... whole , nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves , and rapture warms the mind Nor lose , for that malignant dull delight , The generous pleasure to be charm'd with wit . But , in such lays as neither ebb nor flow , Correctly ...
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... whole depend upon a part : They talk of principles , but notions prize , And all to one loved folly sacrifice . Once on a time , La Mancha's knight , they say , A certain bard encountering on the way , Discoursed in terms as just , with ...
... whole depend upon a part : They talk of principles , but notions prize , And all to one loved folly sacrifice . Once on a time , La Mancha's knight , they say , A certain bard encountering on the way , Discoursed in terms as just , with ...
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... whole oceans roll : Ah , come not , write not , think not once of me , Nor share one pang of all I felt for thee . Thy oaths I quit , thy memory resign ; Forget , renounce me , hate whate'er was mine . Fair eyes , and tempting looks ...
... whole oceans roll : Ah , come not , write not , think not once of me , Nor share one pang of all I felt for thee . Thy oaths I quit , thy memory resign ; Forget , renounce me , hate whate'er was mine . Fair eyes , and tempting looks ...
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... 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 soothe my pensive ghost ; He best can ...
... 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 soothe my pensive ghost ; He best can ...
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Seite 240 - 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 9 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Seite 5 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage !' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Seite 73 - Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years, slide soft away, In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day : Sound sleep by night ; study and ease, Together mix'd ; sweet recreation, And innocence which most does please With meditation. Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die : Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where...
Seite 249 - Know, Nature's children all divide her care; The fur that warms a monarch warm'da bear. While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!
Seite 98 - Soft yielding minds to Water glide away, And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental Tea. The graver Prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of mischief still on Earth to roam. The light Coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of Air.
Seite 246 - Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
Seite 236 - Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Seite 78 - Some beauties yet no precepts can declare, For there's a happiness as well as care. Music resembles poetry ; in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master-hand alone can reach. If, where the rules not far enough extend, (Since rules were made but to promote their end) Some lucky license answer to the full Th' intent propos'd, that license is a rule.
Seite 73 - 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.