The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeA.L. Burt, 1890 - 550 pages |
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... whole care and time of any particular person should be sacrificed to its enter- tainment . Therefore I cannot but believe that writers and readers are under equal obligations , for as much fame , or pleasure , as each affords the other ...
... whole care and time of any particular person should be sacrificed to its enter- tainment . Therefore I cannot but believe that writers and readers are under equal obligations , for as much fame , or pleasure , as each affords the other ...
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... I made use of the judgment of authors dead and living ; that I omitted no means in my power to be in- formed of my errors , both by my friends and enemies ; but versa a whole poem for the sake of some particular PREFACE . 19.
... I made use of the judgment of authors dead and living ; that I omitted no means in my power to be in- formed of my errors , both by my friends and enemies ; but versa a whole poem for the sake of some particular PREFACE . 19.
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Alexander Pope. versa a whole poem for the sake of some particular lines . I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer , as the power of rejecting his own thoughts ; and it must be this ( if anything ) that can give ...
Alexander Pope. versa a whole poem for the sake of some particular lines . I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer , as the power of rejecting his own thoughts ; and it must be this ( if anything ) that can give ...
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... whole beauty from a natural ease of thought and smoothness of verse : whereas that of most other kinds consists in the strength and fulness of both . In a letter of his to Mr. Walsh about this time , we find an enumeration of several ...
... whole beauty from a natural ease of thought and smoothness of verse : whereas that of most other kinds consists in the strength and fulness of both . In a letter of his to Mr. Walsh about this time , we find an enumeration of several ...
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... whole eclogue should be so too . For we cannot suppose poetry in those days to have been the business of men , but their recreation at vacant hours . : 4 5 But with respect to the present age , nothing more conduces to make these ...
... whole eclogue should be so too . For we cannot suppose poetry in those days to have been the business of men , but their recreation at vacant hours . : 4 5 But with respect to the present age , nothing more conduces to make these ...
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Page 359 - Hark! they whisper; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?
Page 189 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state : •> From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could. suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 221 - Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! Thou Great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind...
Page 358 - 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.
Page 273 - Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all see-saw, between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile Antithesis.
Page 74 - The berries crackle, and the mill turns round; On shining altars of Japan they raise The silver lamp; the fiery spirits blaze: From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide, While China's earth receives the smoking tide: At once they gratify their scent and taste, And frequent cups prolong the rich repast.
Page 187 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 184 - Before her, fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain; As Argus
Page 85 - And hence th' egregious wizard shall foredoom The fate of Louis, and the fall of Rome. Then cease, bright nymph ! to mourn thy ravished hair, Which adds new glory to the shining sphere! Not all the tresses that fair head can boast, Shall draw such envy as the Lock you lost. For after all the murders of your eye, When, after millions slain, yourself shall die; When those fair suns shall set, as set they must, And all those tresses shall be laid in dust, This lock the Muse shall consecrate to fame,...
Page 193 - All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high, progressive life may go! Around, how wide! how deep extend below! Vast chain of Being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing.