The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Carefully Collated and Compared with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and CommentatorsEditor, and sold, 1778 |
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Page xvii
... rich youth ( if nature warm his heart , And all his projects stand inform'd with art ) Here clear the caves , there ope the leading vein ; The mines detected flame with gold again . 60 How vaft , how copious , are thy new defigns ! 65 ...
... rich youth ( if nature warm his heart , And all his projects stand inform'd with art ) Here clear the caves , there ope the leading vein ; The mines detected flame with gold again . 60 How vaft , how copious , are thy new defigns ! 65 ...
Page xxii
... decay'd , That facred wifdom from her bounds is fled , That there the fource of fcience flows no more , Whence its rich ftreams fupply'd the world before . 30 Illuftrious 137 1 1 Illuftrious names ! that once in Latium [ xxii ]
... decay'd , That facred wifdom from her bounds is fled , That there the fource of fcience flows no more , Whence its rich ftreams fupply'd the world before . 30 Illuftrious 137 1 1 Illuftrious names ! that once in Latium [ xxii ]
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... rich Pactolus flow , And trees weep amber on the banks of Po ; Bleft Thames's fhores the brightest beauties yield , Feed here my lambs , I'll feek no diftant field . DAPHNIS . Celestial Venus haunts Idalia's groves ; Diana Cynthus ...
... rich Pactolus flow , And trees weep amber on the banks of Po ; Bleft Thames's fhores the brightest beauties yield , Feed here my lambs , I'll feek no diftant field . DAPHNIS . Celestial Venus haunts Idalia's groves ; Diana Cynthus ...
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... rich perfumes refresh the fruitful field , Nor fragrant herbs their native incenfe yield . The balmy Zephyrs , filent fince her death , Lament the ceafing of a sweeter breath ; 50 Th'in- Th'induftrious bees neglect their golden ftore ...
... rich perfumes refresh the fruitful field , Nor fragrant herbs their native incenfe yield . The balmy Zephyrs , filent fince her death , Lament the ceafing of a sweeter breath ; 50 Th'in- Th'induftrious bees neglect their golden ftore ...
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... Rich Industry fits smiling on the plains , And peace and plenty tell a Stuart reigns . Not thus the land appear'd in ages past , A dreary defart and a gloomy waste , * 35 40 To favage beafts and favage laws a prey , And kings more ...
... Rich Industry fits smiling on the plains , And peace and plenty tell a Stuart reigns . Not thus the land appear'd in ages past , A dreary defart and a gloomy waste , * 35 40 To favage beafts and favage laws a prey , And kings more ...
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Page 57 - 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 256 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam : Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line...
Page 337 - To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the column, or the arch to bend, To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot.
Page 101 - What boots the regal circle on his head, His giant limbs, in state unwieldy spread; That long behind he trails his pompous robe, And, of all monarchs, only grasps the globe? The baron now his diamonds pours apace; Th...
Page 288 - Pursues that chain which links th' immense design, Joins heav'n and earth, and mortal and divine; Sees, that no being any bliss can know, But touches some above, and some below; Learns, from this union of the rising whole, The first, last purpose of the human soul; And knows where faith, law, morals, all began, All end, in love of God, and love of man.
Page 294 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe.
Page 284 - Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go ! and pretend your family is young, Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. Look next on greatness : say where greatness lies, Where, but among the heroes and the wise...
Page 92 - And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transform'd to combs, the speckled and the white.
Page 279 - Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? • Where grows ? — where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil...
Page 330 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!