The Age of Pope (1700-1744).G. Bell and sons, 1899 - 260 страници |
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... received the relation , who was entrapped in her uncle's house , carried off by four men in masks , and treated in the most brutal manner . And in 1711 the Duke of Newcastle , having become acquainted with a design for carrying off his ...
... received the relation , who was entrapped in her uncle's house , carried off by four men in masks , and treated in the most brutal manner . And in 1711 the Duke of Newcastle , having become acquainted with a design for carrying off his ...
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... receiving gentle- men visitors in their bedrooms . He objects also to other foreign habits introduced by ' travelled ladies , ' and fears that the peace , however much to be desired , may cause the importation of a number of French ...
... receiving gentle- men visitors in their bedrooms . He objects also to other foreign habits introduced by ' travelled ladies , ' and fears that the peace , however much to be desired , may cause the importation of a number of French ...
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... received much friendly counsel ; and he had another wise friend in Sir William Trumbull , formerly Secretary of State , who recognized his genius , and gave him as warm a friendship as an old man can offer to a young one . The dissolute ...
... received much friendly counsel ; and he had another wise friend in Sir William Trumbull , formerly Secretary of State , who recognized his genius , and gave him as warm a friendship as an old man can offer to a young one . The dissolute ...
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... received the highest honour a poem could then have . It was praised by Addison in the Spectator as a very fine poem , ' and ' a masterpiece in its kind . ' The ' kind , ' suggested by the Ars Poetica of Horace , and the Art Poétique of ...
... received the highest honour a poem could then have . It was praised by Addison in the Spectator as a very fine poem , ' and ' a masterpiece in its kind . ' The ' kind , ' suggested by the Ars Poetica of Horace , and the Art Poétique of ...
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... received high praise from the Scotch philosopher , Dugald Stewart . The charm of poetical ex- pression is lost or nearly lost in translations , and while the sense may be retained the aroma of the verse is gone . The popularity of the ...
... received high praise from the Scotch philosopher , Dugald Stewart . The charm of poetical ex- pression is lost or nearly lost in translations , and while the sense may be retained the aroma of the verse is gone . The popularity of the ...
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Страница 99 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Страница 92 - I hear a voice, you cannot hear, Which says, I must not stay; I see a hand, you cannot see, Which beckons me away.
Страница 26 - Ixion fixed, the wretch shall feel The giddy motion of the whirling mill, In fumes of burning chocolate shall glow, And tremble at the sea that froths below!
Страница 128 - She was a very beautiful woman, of a noble spirit, and there was a dignity in her grief amidst all the wildness of her transport; which, methought, struck me with an instinct of sorrow, that, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since.
Страница 196 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Страница 66 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man...
Страница 73 - As home he goes beneath the joyous moon. Ye that keep watch in heaven, as earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, Ye constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre. Great source of day! best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam His praise.
Страница 26 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride...
Страница 224 - Comes slowly grazing through the adjoining meads, Whose stealing pace and lengthened shade we fear, Till torn-up forage in his teeth we hear; When nibbling sheep at large pursue their food, And unmolested kine rechew the cud; When curlews cry beneath the village walls, And to her straggling brood the partridge calls...
Страница 98 - Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which he did with such judgment and such fancy, as made his little domain the envy of the great, and the admiration of the .skilful ; a place to be visited by travellers, and copied by designers.