The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Comp. from Original Manuscripts; with a Critical Essay on His Writings and GeniusC. Bathurst, 1769 - 578 σελίδες |
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... objects of ambition are more or lefs diftant . The habit of application will be vigorous or faint , as the reward propofed is great or fmall , near or remote . When genius wanders without a friendly guide to direct its steps , and ...
... objects of ambition are more or lefs diftant . The habit of application will be vigorous or faint , as the reward propofed is great or fmall , near or remote . When genius wanders without a friendly guide to direct its steps , and ...
Σελίδα 30
... objects a barrenness of invention to Mr. POPE , it is to be wished that he had previously defined what invention is , or at leaft what he intended by the ufe of that word . As he has omitted it however , an attempt will be made in its ...
... objects a barrenness of invention to Mr. POPE , it is to be wished that he had previously defined what invention is , or at leaft what he intended by the ufe of that word . As he has omitted it however , an attempt will be made in its ...
Σελίδα 31
... objects , that there is not a fingle rural image in thefe paftorals that is new , it is no more than what our poet himfelf premises , with that candor and modesty which is ever attendant on genuine merit . For in his excellent difcourfe ...
... objects , that there is not a fingle rural image in thefe paftorals that is new , it is no more than what our poet himfelf premises , with that candor and modesty which is ever attendant on genuine merit . For in his excellent difcourfe ...
Σελίδα 34
... objects , which are not to be found in na- ture . The figs and honey which he affigns * as a reward to a victorious ... object of defire . Any other premium than figs and honey , might therefore , in Sicily , have been affigned with ...
... objects , which are not to be found in na- ture . The figs and honey which he affigns * as a reward to a victorious ... object of defire . Any other premium than figs and honey , might therefore , in Sicily , have been affigned with ...
Σελίδα 36
... objects that " a mixture of British and Grecian ideas , may be justly deemed a ble- mish in the PASTORALS of POPE : and pro- priety , " he adds , " is certain to be violated when he couples Pactolus with the Thames , ' & c . How far ...
... objects that " a mixture of British and Grecian ideas , may be justly deemed a ble- mish in the PASTORALS of POPE : and pro- priety , " he adds , " is certain to be violated when he couples Pactolus with the Thames , ' & c . How far ...
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Σελίδα 265 - Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge Thy foe. If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way...
Σελίδα 256 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
Σελίδα 231 - With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and...
Σελίδα 80 - She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For, as in bodies, thus in souls we find, What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Σελίδα 298 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ; Enough, that Virtue fill'd the space between ; Prov'd by the ends of being, to have been.
Σελίδα 229 - But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at ev'ry pore? Or quick effluvia darting thro' the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain?
Σελίδα 116 - He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts...
Σελίδα 239 - Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod; The state of Nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man.
Σελίδα 231 - KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest...
Σελίδα 226 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.