The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others: To which Were Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks, Volume 5C. and J. Rivington, 1824 |
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... is brevity of diction ; which , in a few instances , and those perhaps pardonable , has occasioned obscurity . It is hardly to be imagined how much sense , how much thinking , how much observation on human life , is condensed together B 2 ...
... is brevity of diction ; which , in a few instances , and those perhaps pardonable , has occasioned obscurity . It is hardly to be imagined how much sense , how much thinking , how much observation on human life , is condensed together B 2 ...
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... human life , is condensed together in a small compass . He was so accustomed to confine his thoughts in rhyme , that he tells us he could express them more shortly this way than in prose itself . On its first publication Pope did not ...
... human life , is condensed together in a small compass . He was so accustomed to confine his thoughts in rhyme , that he tells us he could express them more shortly this way than in prose itself . On its first publication Pope did not ...
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... human works , tho ' labour'd on with pain , A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain ; In God's , one single can its end produce , Yet serves to second too some other use . So man , who here seems principal alone , Perhaps acts ...
... human works , tho ' labour'd on with pain , A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain ; In God's , one single can its end produce , Yet serves to second too some other use . So man , who here seems principal alone , Perhaps acts ...
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... human breast ; Man never is , but always to be blest ; The soul , uneasy , and confin'd from home , Rests and expatiates in a world to come . " Essay on Man , Ep . i . ver . 95 . On these two last lines , Mr. Bowyer observes , " In the ...
... human breast ; Man never is , but always to be blest ; The soul , uneasy , and confin'd from home , Rests and expatiates in a world to come . " Essay on Man , Ep . i . ver . 95 . On these two last lines , Mr. Bowyer observes , " In the ...
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... human will , and overthrowing the barriers be- tween vice and virtue . This idea seems to have arisen from a too confined and partial view of the manner in which the poet has treated his subject , and from judging of it by detached ...
... human will , and overthrowing the barriers be- tween vice and virtue . This idea seems to have arisen from a too confined and partial view of the manner in which the poet has treated his subject , and from judging of it by detached ...
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Page 65 - 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 134 - Praise ye him, sun and moon : Praise him, all ye stars of light. Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, And ye waters that be above the heavens. Let them praise the name of the LORD: For he commanded, and they were created.
Page 194 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Page 50 - If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline? Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms; Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind, Or turns young Ammon loose to scourge mankind?
Page 74 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 82 - 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; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much...
Page 174 - Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Page 185 - When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by ? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging wall?
Page 407 - Bid harbours open, public ways extend, Bid temples worthier of the God ascend, Bid the broad arch the dangerous flood contain, The mole projected break the roaring main ; Back to his bounds their subject sea command, And roll obedient rivers through the land : These honours, peace to happy BRITAIN brings, These are imperial works, and worthy kings.
Page 123 - See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again : All forms that perish other forms supply, (By turns we catch the vital breath, and die) Like bubbles on the sea of matter born, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.