The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly, Τόμος 21835 |
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... mean difficulty : he has , however , executed his task in a way equally honorable to his understanding and his industry , and the result is an impartial and critical history of one of the most important epochs of ancient or modern times ...
... mean difficulty : he has , however , executed his task in a way equally honorable to his understanding and his industry , and the result is an impartial and critical history of one of the most important epochs of ancient or modern times ...
Σελίδα 11
... means or leisure for pur- suing a regular course of study ; and as the learned languages do not form a part of the education of Females , the only access which they have to the valuable stores of antiquity is through the me- dium of ...
... means or leisure for pur- suing a regular course of study ; and as the learned languages do not form a part of the education of Females , the only access which they have to the valuable stores of antiquity is through the me- dium of ...
Σελίδα 14
... mean share of the critic's praise , and the attention of the public .'- Bibliographical Miscellany . One of the most admirable works which antiquity has be- queathed to us , we have here in the accurate and graceful trans- lation of the ...
... mean share of the critic's praise , and the attention of the public .'- Bibliographical Miscellany . One of the most admirable works which antiquity has be- queathed to us , we have here in the accurate and graceful trans- lation of the ...
Σελίδα 15
... mean , be to himself a friend , To follow nature , and regard his end ; 250 255 Or looks on heaven with more than mortal eyes ; Bids his free soul expatiate in the skies , Amid her kindred stars familiar roam , Survey the region , and ...
... mean , be to himself a friend , To follow nature , and regard his end ; 250 255 Or looks on heaven with more than mortal eyes ; Bids his free soul expatiate in the skies , Amid her kindred stars familiar roam , Survey the region , and ...
Σελίδα 35
... means resemble Pope's beautiful and romantic de- scription of it . Father St. Romain , the officiating priest , walked with him round the whole demesne . The abbess , who was in her eighty - second year , desired to see our traveller ...
... means resemble Pope's beautiful and romantic de- scription of it . Father St. Romain , the officiating priest , walked with him round the whole demesne . The abbess , who was in her eighty - second year , desired to see our traveller ...
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Abelard admire ALEXANDER POPE alludes ancient Balaam beauty bishop bless'd Boileau character charms church court critic divine Doddington duke e'er ears Eloisa ELOISA TO ABELARD England English EPISTLE ev'n eyes fame fate folly fool genius give grace grave hate heart Heaven honor Horace king knave knowlege labor lady language laugh laws learn'd learned live lord lord Bolingbroke lord chamberlains Lord Hervey mankind mind minister Muse nature ne'er never noble numbers o'er once paint panegyric passion Pindaric pleased poem poet poet's poetry poor Pope Pope's praise pride prince proud queen queen Caroline Quintilian rage rhyme rich rules Sappho satire SATIRE IV Sejanus sense Shakspeare soul style Tacitus taste thee things thou thought tongue tremble true truth verse vice virtue Walpole Warburton Warton whig whore wife win widows words write
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Σελίδα 72 - whispers through the trees ;' If crystal streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep;' Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Σελίδα 196 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Σελίδα 70 - Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face of nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay ; But true expression, like th' unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
Σελίδα 61 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchang'd, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides, Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...
Σελίδα 67 - A little learning is a dangerous thing! Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
Σελίδα 110 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;) " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace " Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : " One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead— " And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Σελίδα 180 - They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge. No place is sacred, not the church is free, Ev'n Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me: Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me, just at dinner-time.
Σελίδα 73 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Σελίδα 81 - Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do ; Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Σελίδα 69 - The manners, passions, unities, what not? All which, exact to rule, were brought about, Were but a combat in the lists left out. "What! leave the combat out?" exclaims the knight; Yes, or we must renounce the Stagirite. "Not so, by Heaven" (he answers in a rage), "Knights, squires, and steeds, must enter on the stage.