The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life of the AuthorPhillips & Sampson, 1848 |
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... ancients their pattern . The most considerable genius appears in the famous Tasso , and our Spenser . Tasso , in his Aminta , as far excelled all pastoral writers , as in his Gierusalemme , he has outdone the epic poets of his own ...
... ancients their pattern . The most considerable genius appears in the famous Tasso , and our Spenser . Tasso , in his Aminta , as far excelled all pastoral writers , as in his Gierusalemme , he has outdone the epic poets of his own ...
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... ancient and modern critics ever thought . " The Iliad is so far from being a wild paradise , that it is the most regular garden , and laid out with more symmetry , than any ever was . Every thing therein is not only in the place it ...
... ancient and modern critics ever thought . " The Iliad is so far from being a wild paradise , that it is the most regular garden , and laid out with more symmetry , than any ever was . Every thing therein is not only in the place it ...
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... ancient purity : to which our poet made this modest reply , That , not having attempted any thing in the drama , it might in him be deemed too much presumption . To which he was answered , That this did not require great knowledge of ...
... ancient purity : to which our poet made this modest reply , That , not having attempted any thing in the drama , it might in him be deemed too much presumption . To which he was answered , That this did not require great knowledge of ...
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... ancient court thee to his shrine , Though ev'ry laurel through the dome be thine , ( From the proud epic down to those that shade The gentler brow of the soft Lesbian maid , ) Go to the good and just , and awful train , Thy soul's ...
... ancient court thee to his shrine , Though ev'ry laurel through the dome be thine , ( From the proud epic down to those that shade The gentler brow of the soft Lesbian maid , ) Go to the good and just , and awful train , Thy soul's ...
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... plant shall aid , From storm a shelter , and from heat a shade . 15 ( 1 ) Isa . xi . ver . 1. ( 2 ) Ch . xlv . ver . 8. ( 3 ) Ch . xxv ver . 4 . All crimes shall cease , and ancient frands shall fail ( 51 ) Messiah, A sacred Eclogue.
... plant shall aid , From storm a shelter , and from heat a shade . 15 ( 1 ) Isa . xi . ver . 1. ( 2 ) Ch . xlv . ver . 8. ( 3 ) Ch . xxv ver . 4 . All crimes shall cease , and ancient frands shall fail ( 51 ) Messiah, A sacred Eclogue.
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Страница 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!
Страница 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...
Страница 5 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage !' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Страница 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...
Страница 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!
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 236 - Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.