The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Comp. from Original Manuscripts; with a Critical Essay on His Writings and GeniusC. Bathurst, 1769 - 578 страници |
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... fame , are a few fwans , who , when they catch a medal , convey it carefully to the Temple of IMMOR TALITY , where it is confecrated . Thefe fwans , of later ages , have indeed been rarae aves : What innumerable names have been dropped ...
... fame , are a few fwans , who , when they catch a medal , convey it carefully to the Temple of IMMOR TALITY , where it is confecrated . Thefe fwans , of later ages , have indeed been rarae aves : What innumerable names have been dropped ...
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... fame , they stand in the most confpicuous line , who have reaped the harvest of glory , in the active scenes of life . The bulk of mankind , are more folicitous to learn the history of statesmen and warriors , than to be acquainted with ...
... fame , they stand in the most confpicuous line , who have reaped the harvest of glory , in the active scenes of life . The bulk of mankind , are more folicitous to learn the history of statesmen and warriors , than to be acquainted with ...
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... fame . But when we perufe the lives of the learned , when we admire the fentiments which adorn their pages , when we approve the moral and focial rules , by which they framed their con- duct ; we then pay the juft tribute of applaufe ...
... fame . But when we perufe the lives of the learned , when we admire the fentiments which adorn their pages , when we approve the moral and focial rules , by which they framed their con- duct ; we then pay the juft tribute of applaufe ...
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... fame is thus firmly rooted , Mr. POPE ftands capitally distinguished . Our bard , however , experienced the common fate of every man who ftarts from the crowd . Ignorance and envy waged war against his merit . So true is Moliere's ...
... fame is thus firmly rooted , Mr. POPE ftands capitally distinguished . Our bard , however , experienced the common fate of every man who ftarts from the crowd . Ignorance and envy waged war against his merit . So true is Moliere's ...
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... fame opportu nity of doing in their art , he as commonly ex- celled as he copied . ) Mr. POPE's difcernment , however , was too acute not to perceive the defects of fuch irregu- lar and defultory habits of study . For though a retentive ...
... fame opportu nity of doing in their art , he as commonly ex- celled as he copied . ) Mr. POPE's difcernment , however , was too acute not to perceive the defects of fuch irregu- lar and defultory habits of study . For though a retentive ...
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Страница 265 - Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge Thy foe. If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way...
Страница 256 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
Страница 231 - 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; Born but to die, and...
Страница 80 - She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For, as in bodies, thus in souls we find, What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Страница 298 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ; Enough, that Virtue fill'd the space between ; Prov'd by the ends of being, to have been.
Страница 229 - But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at ev'ry pore? Or quick effluvia darting thro' the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain?
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Страница 239 - Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod; The state of Nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man.
Страница 231 - 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...
Страница 226 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, 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.