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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... Poets from whose works subjects for six vacant spaces in the new Palace of Westminster were to be executed by living artists , named Chaucer , ( who by his antiquity as well as his merits was properly appointed to lead the line of ...
... Poets from whose works subjects for six vacant spaces in the new Palace of Westminster were to be executed by living artists , named Chaucer , ( who by his antiquity as well as his merits was properly appointed to lead the line of ...
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... poets , and who appears to wish , as I certainly do not , to have a hit at him whenever he can , concedes , however , thus much to him , -— " In the species of poetry wherein Pope excelled , he is superior to all man- kind , and I only ...
... poets , and who appears to wish , as I certainly do not , to have a hit at him whenever he can , concedes , however , thus much to him , -— " In the species of poetry wherein Pope excelled , he is superior to all man- kind , and I only ...
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... poets , the severest chastiser of vice , and the most persuasive teacher of wisdom . " How speaks Campbell , the author of the Pleasures of Hope , and the Battle of the Baltic ? If any one is entitled to speak of what true poetry is ...
... poets , the severest chastiser of vice , and the most persuasive teacher of wisdom . " How speaks Campbell , the author of the Pleasures of Hope , and the Battle of the Baltic ? If any one is entitled to speak of what true poetry is ...
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... poem of the Messiah , I do justice to the stately flow of verse upon the highest of human themes . Both Dr. Johnson and Dr. Warton give it a decided preference over the Pollio of Virgil , which is concerned with topics of close and ...
... poem of the Messiah , I do justice to the stately flow of verse upon the highest of human themes . Both Dr. Johnson and Dr. Warton give it a decided preference over the Pollio of Virgil , which is concerned with topics of close and ...
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... poem , the Rape of the Lock . Dr. Johnson calls this the most exquisite example of ludicrous poetry , though I do not think the word ludicrous a happy epithet of the Doctor's ; Dr. Warton calls it the best satire extant ; and we are ...
... poem , the Rape of the Lock . Dr. Johnson calls this the most exquisite example of ludicrous poetry , though I do not think the word ludicrous a happy epithet of the Doctor's ; Dr. Warton calls it the best satire extant ; and we are ...
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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...