The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author ...Z. & B. F. Pratt, 1846 |
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... less peevish in his sickness than he used to be in his health , neither much afraid of dying , nor ( which in him had been more likely ) much ashamed of marrying . The evening before he expired he called his young wife to the bed - side ...
... less peevish in his sickness than he used to be in his health , neither much afraid of dying , nor ( which in him had been more likely ) much ashamed of marrying . The evening before he expired he called his young wife to the bed - side ...
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... less exalted sense of his own merit . Mr. Pope could not well bear such repeated re- proaches , but boldly told Mr. Addison , that he ap- pealed from his judgment to the public , and that he had long known him too well to expect any ...
... less exalted sense of his own merit . Mr. Pope could not well bear such repeated re- proaches , but boldly told Mr. Addison , that he ap- pealed from his judgment to the public , and that he had long known him too well to expect any ...
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... less inclination than ability . Contemplative life is not only my scene , but my habit too . I began my life where most people end theirs , with a disgust of all that the world calls ambition . I don't know why it is called so : for ...
... less inclination than ability . Contemplative life is not only my scene , but my habit too . I began my life where most people end theirs , with a disgust of all that the world calls ambition . I don't know why it is called so : for ...
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... less ceremony in his Notes on the Iliad than , in the opinion of some people , was due to her sex . This learned lady was not without a sense of the injury , and took an oppor- tunity of discovering her resentment . " Upon finishing ...
... less ceremony in his Notes on the Iliad than , in the opinion of some people , was due to her sex . This learned lady was not without a sense of the injury , and took an oppor- tunity of discovering her resentment . " Upon finishing ...
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... less were capable to correct or revise him . The friends of Mr. Pope , therefore , strongly im- portuned him to undertake the whole of Shakspeare's plays , and , if possible , by comparing all the different copies now to be procured ...
... less were capable to correct or revise him . The friends of Mr. Pope , therefore , strongly im- portuned him to undertake the whole of Shakspeare's plays , and , if possible , by comparing all the different copies now to be procured ...
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Страница 73 - The world recedes: it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy Victory? O Death! where is thy Sting.
Страница 84 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Страница 120 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart ; To make mankind in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Страница 104 - Whatever spirit, careless of his charge, His post neglects, or leaves the fair at large, Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins, Be...
Страница 80 - A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
Страница 84 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes: Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...
Страница 100 - Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face: Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes. The busy sylphs surround their darling care, These set the head, and those divide the hair, Some fold the sleeve, while others plait the gown; And Betty's praised for labours not her own. CANTO II NOT with more glories, in th...
Страница 288 - She, who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules ; Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, Yet has her humour most, when she obeys...
Страница 80 - OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Страница 83 - Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face of Nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay ; But true expression, like th' unchanging sun, Clears, and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It gilds all objects, but it alters none.