The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. From the text of dr. Warburton. With the life of the author [by T. Cibber].C. Cooke, Paternoster Row, 1807 |
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... grow less flexible , and when , therefore , the departure of an old friend is very acutely felt . In the next year he lost his mother , not by an unexpected death , for she had lasted to the age of ninety - thrce ; but she did not die ...
... grow less flexible , and when , therefore , the departure of an old friend is very acutely felt . In the next year he lost his mother , not by an unexpected death , for she had lasted to the age of ninety - thrce ; but she did not die ...
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... grown trees expand the smallest leaf ; Here half an acre's corn is half a sheaf ; Here hills with naked heads the tempest meet , Rocks at their sides , and torrents at their fect ; Or lazy lakes , unconscious of a flood , Whose dull ...
... grown trees expand the smallest leaf ; Here half an acre's corn is half a sheaf ; Here hills with naked heads the tempest meet , Rocks at their sides , and torrents at their fect ; Or lazy lakes , unconscious of a flood , Whose dull ...
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... , as when Adonis dy'd . And with your golden darts now ufclefs grown Inferibe a verse on this relentles ftone . Popes Poems Vide Winter , Pastoral Vol Line 25. Page 6 Thus sung the shepherds till th ' approach of night.
... , as when Adonis dy'd . And with your golden darts now ufclefs grown Inferibe a verse on this relentles ftone . Popes Poems Vide Winter , Pastoral Vol Line 25. Page 6 Thus sung the shepherds till th ' approach of night.
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... grown , 25 Inscribe a verse on this relenting stone : " Let nature change , let heaven and earth deplore ; " Fair Daphne's dead , and love is now no more ! " VOL . I. F 30 35 ' Tis done ; and Nature's various charms PASTORALS . 61.
... grown , 25 Inscribe a verse on this relenting stone : " Let nature change , let heaven and earth deplore ; " Fair Daphne's dead , and love is now no more ! " VOL . I. F 30 35 ' Tis done ; and Nature's various charms PASTORALS . 61.
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... growing honours rear , And future navies on thy shores appear . Not Neptune's self from all his streams receives A wealthier tribute than to thine he gives . No seas so rich , so gay no banks appear , No lake so gentle , and no spring ...
... growing honours rear , And future navies on thy shores appear . Not Neptune's self from all his streams receives A wealthier tribute than to thine he gives . No seas so rich , so gay no banks appear , No lake so gentle , and no spring ...
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Adrastus ancient appear Balaam bear beauty Behold bless bless'd bliss blood breast bright charms critics crown'd Cynthus dæmon dame delight Dryden Dryope Dunciad e'er earth Eclogues Eteocles eternal ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame fate fix'd flame flow'rs fools fury genius give glory gnome gods grace groves hair happiness heart Heav'n honour Iliad Jove kind king learn'd light live lord Lord Bolingbroke maid mankind mind mournful Muse nature never night numbers nymph o'er once passion Phaon Phoebus plain pleas'd pleasure poem poets Polynices Pope Pope's pow'r praise pride rage reason reign rise sacred Sappho self-love sense shade shine sighs sing skies soft soul spread spring swain sylphs tears Thalestris Thebes thee Theocritus things thou thought trees trembling Twas Tydeus Vertumnus Virg Virgil virgin virtue wife winds wise wretched youth
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Страница 124 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Страница 125 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Страница 156 - To man's low passions, or their glorious ends, Teach me, like thee, in various nature wise, To fall with dignity, with temper rise; Form'd by thy converse, happily to steer, From grave to gay, from lively to severe ; Correct with spirit, eloquent with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to please.
Страница 100 - Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill ; But of the two less dangerous is th' offence To tire our patience than mislead our sense : Some few in that, but numbers err in this, Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose, Now one in verse makes many more in prose.
Страница 164 - Perhaps prosperity becalm'd his breast, Perhaps the wind just shifted from the east. Not therefore humble he who seeks retreat ; Pride guides his steps, and bids him shun the great.
Страница 130 - 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 166 - Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise: Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him or he dies; Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke.
Страница 139 - replies a pamper'd goose : And just as short of reason he must fall, Who thinks all made for one, not one for all.
Страница 128 - Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.