The Age of Pope (1700-1744).G. Bell and sons, 1899 - 260 страници |
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... the eighteenth century versemen , who appear to have looked upon satire as the beginning and thé end of poetry . Moreover Dryden may be regarded , without much B exaggeration , as the father of modern prose . Nothing INTRODUCTION.
... the eighteenth century versemen , who appear to have looked upon satire as the beginning and thé end of poetry . Moreover Dryden may be regarded , without much B exaggeration , as the father of modern prose . Nothing INTRODUCTION.
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... in morals enjoined by State authority in Cromwell's days , when theological pedantry discovered sin in what had hitherto been regarded as innocent , led , among the unsaintly mass of the people , to a hypocrisy 6 THE AGE OF POPE .
... in morals enjoined by State authority in Cromwell's days , when theological pedantry discovered sin in what had hitherto been regarded as innocent , led , among the unsaintly mass of the people , to a hypocrisy 6 THE AGE OF POPE .
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... Christ seems to have been regarded as little more than a useful kind of cement which held society together . The good sense 1 Lecky's England , vol . i . p . 373 . advocated so constantly by Pope in poetry was also con- 8 THE AGE OF POPE .
... Christ seems to have been regarded as little more than a useful kind of cement which held society together . The good sense 1 Lecky's England , vol . i . p . 373 . advocated so constantly by Pope in poetry was also con- 8 THE AGE OF POPE .
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... " Even Addison , while trying to instruct the Fair Sex ' as he likes to call them , apparently regarded its members as an inferior order of beings . He delights to dwell upon their foibles , on their dress , and on the INTRODUCTION . 15.
... " Even Addison , while trying to instruct the Fair Sex ' as he likes to call them , apparently regarded its members as an inferior order of beings . He delights to dwell upon their foibles , on their dress , and on the INTRODUCTION . 15.
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... regarded by the poet , or by the critics of his age , yet neither he nor they could have divined the rapid pro- gress of his fame , and that in about six years ' time he would be regarded as the greatest of living poets . The Essay on ...
... regarded by the poet , or by the critics of his age , yet neither he nor they could have divined the rapid pro- gress of his fame , and that in about six years ' time he would be regarded as the greatest of living poets . The Essay on ...
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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.