Two lectures, on the poetry of Pope, and on his own travels in America, by the earl of Carlisle, Volume 1 |
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... character and reputation of Pope , as a poet , had sunk , in general cotemporary estimation , considerably below their previous , and their proper level . I felt ruffled at this , as an injustice to an author whom my childhood had been ...
... character and reputation of Pope , as a poet , had sunk , in general cotemporary estimation , considerably below their previous , and their proper level . I felt ruffled at this , as an injustice to an author whom my childhood had been ...
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... character as a critic , is to state frankly what I do not claim for my client , the late Alexander Pope . I do not , then , pretend to place him on the very highest pedestal of poetry , among the few foremost of the tuneful monarchs and ...
... character as a critic , is to state frankly what I do not claim for my client , the late Alexander Pope . I do not , then , pretend to place him on the very highest pedestal of poetry , among the few foremost of the tuneful monarchs and ...
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... character , I fear it must be allowed , were at times disfigured by envy , resentment , and littleness . Compared , however , with most of his pre- decessors of the reign of Charles II . , and with many of his own cotemporaries , both ...
... character , I fear it must be allowed , were at times disfigured by envy , resentment , and littleness . Compared , however , with most of his pre- decessors of the reign of Charles II . , and with many of his own cotemporaries , both ...
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... character is rapt , vehement , abrupt ; his is composed , polished , methodical ; his haunt would not be the mountain top , or the foaming cataract , but the smooth parterre and the gilded saloon . You may prefer one bent of mind , as ...
... character is rapt , vehement , abrupt ; his is composed , polished , methodical ; his haunt would not be the mountain top , or the foaming cataract , but the smooth parterre and the gilded saloon . You may prefer one bent of mind , as ...
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... character of Lord Hervey , under the name of Sporus , is cited by Lord Byron as a specimen of his rich fancy , ( generally , but most erroneously , assumed to be the quality in which Pope was chiefly deficient , ) and with this specimen ...
... character of Lord Hervey , under the name of Sporus , is cited by Lord Byron as a specimen of his rich fancy , ( generally , but most erroneously , assumed to be the quality in which Pope was chiefly deficient , ) and with this specimen ...
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Page 9 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 14 - 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...
Page 9 - 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.
Page 9 - 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 19 - 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 17 - Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, (More silent far) where kings and poets lie ; Where MURRAY (long enough his country's pride) Shall be no more than TULLY, or than HYDE ! Rack'd with sciatics, martyr'd with the stone, Will any mortal let himself alone?
Page 19 - 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 15 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Page 9 - 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 18 - Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent: Spreads undivided, operates unspent...