Two Lectures on the Poetry of Pope, and on His Own Travels in America: Delivered to the Leeds Mechanics' Institution & Literary Society, December 5th and 6th, 1850 |
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... portions of that great community , ( although I would not more implicitly trust to young America than I would to Young England upon this point , ) the reverence for Pope still partook largely of the sounder original faith of the parent ...
... portions of that great community , ( although I would not more implicitly trust to young America than I would to Young England upon this point , ) the reverence for Pope still partook largely of the sounder original faith of the parent ...
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... portion of my remarks thoroughly obsolete . The New England country through which we passed looks cheerful , interspersed with frequent villages and numerous churches - bearing the mark at the same time of the long winter and barren ...
... portion of my remarks thoroughly obsolete . The New England country through which we passed looks cheerful , interspersed with frequent villages and numerous churches - bearing the mark at the same time of the long winter and barren ...
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... portion of the State of New York . At Rochester , an odd coincidence occurred to me , striking enough I think to be mentioned , though it only concerned myself . After the arrival of the railway carriage , and the usual copious meal of ...
... portion of the State of New York . At Rochester , an odd coincidence occurred to me , striking enough I think to be mentioned , though it only concerned myself . After the arrival of the railway carriage , and the usual copious meal of ...
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... portion of territory immediately annexed to Washington . When they are here , the members of Congress are mostly packed together in large and very inferior boarding - houses , a great portion of them not bringing their wives and ...
... portion of territory immediately annexed to Washington . When they are here , the members of Congress are mostly packed together in large and very inferior boarding - houses , a great portion of them not bringing their wives and ...
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... portion of it lashed into noise and storm . I thought it was very near being , and to some extent it was , quite a sublime position , but it rather detracted from the grandeur of the effect at least , that his own excitement was so ...
... portion of it lashed into noise and storm . I thought it was very near being , and to some extent it was , quite a sublime position , but it rather detracted from the grandeur of the effect at least , that his own excitement was so ...
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Page 16 - Peace to all such! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please. And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yev with jealous eyes.
Page 11 - 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, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Page 21 - 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 21 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and shamed by ridicule alone.
Page 19 - But why then publish? Granville the polite, And knowing Walsh, would tell me I could write; Well-natured Garth inflamed with early praise; And Congreve loved, and Swift endured my lays; The courtly Talbot, Somers, Sheffield read; Ev'n mitred Rochester would nod the head, And St. John's self (great Dryden's friends before) With open arms received one poet more.
Page 18 - Of all her dears she never slander'd one, But cares not if a thousand are undone. Would Chloe know if you're alive or dead ? She bids her footman put it in her head. Chloe is prudent — Would you too be wise ? Then never break your heart when Chloe dies.
Page 11 - True wit is nature to advantage dressed, — What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Page 11 - For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best.
Page 21 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart ; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. To Him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all.
Page 11 - Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest; The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.