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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... observe , that in this estimate I appear to be confirmed by the present Commissioners of Fine Arts , who , in selecting the Poets from whose works subjects for six vacant spaces in the new Palace of Westminster were to be executed by ...
... observe , that in this estimate I appear to be confirmed by the present Commissioners of Fine Arts , who , in selecting the Poets from whose works subjects for six vacant spaces in the new Palace of Westminster were to be executed by ...
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... observe , " Just as the twig is bent , the tree's inclined . " Do you wish to characterise ambition somewhat favourably ? You call it , " The glorious fault of angels and of gods . " Or describing a great conqueror , " A mighty hunter ...
... observe , " Just as the twig is bent , the tree's inclined . " Do you wish to characterise ambition somewhat favourably ? You call it , " The glorious fault of angels and of gods . " Or describing a great conqueror , " A mighty hunter ...
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... observe how the words " present " and " lifted " carry on the drama of the scene ) : — Present the cross before my lifted eye , Teach me at once , and learn of me to die ; Ah then , thy once - loved Eloisa see , It will be then no crime ...
... observe how the words " present " and " lifted " carry on the drama of the scene ) : — Present the cross before my lifted eye , Teach me at once , and learn of me to die ; Ah then , thy once - loved Eloisa see , It will be then no crime ...
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... observe so much separate order between the different poems as heretofore ) , were the fruits of his matured years and settled powers . They henceforth fall under one class of composition , that which treats of men , their manners , and ...
... observe so much separate order between the different poems as heretofore ) , were the fruits of his matured years and settled powers . They henceforth fall under one class of composition , that which treats of men , their manners , and ...
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... ( Observe how the gentle and amiable Congreve " loved , " and the caustic and cynical Swift " endured . " ) The courtly Talbot , Somers , Sheffield , read , E'en mitred Rochester would nod the head , ( said to have been the ordinary ...
... ( Observe how the gentle and amiable Congreve " loved , " and the caustic and cynical Swift " endured . " ) The courtly Talbot , Somers , Sheffield , read , E'en mitred Rochester would nod the head , ( said to have been the ordinary ...
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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...