The Works of Alexander Pope: The life [by W.J. Courthope] and indexJ. Murray, 1889 |
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The Works of Alexander Pope: The life [by W.J. Courthope] and index Alexander Pope Πλήρης προβολή - 1889 |
The Works of Alexander Pope: The life [by W. J. Courthope] and index Alexander Pope Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 1967 |
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Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 364 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Σελίδα 370 - The principal object, then, proposed in these poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men...
Σελίδα 110 - Ixion fix'd, the wretch shall feel The giddy motion of the whirling mill, In fumes of burning chocolate shall glow, And tremble at the sea that froths below...
Σελίδα 319 - Argyll, the state's whole thunder born to wield, And shake alike the senate and the field?
Σελίδα 35 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice
Σελίδα 52 - And hence perhaps may be given some reason of that common observation, that men who have a great deal of wit, and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment or deepest reason...
Σελίδα 64 - To one small sect, and all are damn'd beside. Meanly they seek the blessing to confine. And force that sun but on a part to shine, Which not alone the southern wit sublimes, But ripens spirits in cold northern climes...
Σελίδα 50 - MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much, as his observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.
Σελίδα 378 - Though they may write in verse, though they may in a certain sense be masters of the art of versification, Dryden and Pope are not classics of our poetry, they are classics of our prose.
Σελίδα 61 - 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.