The Works of Alexander Pope: PoetryJ. Murray, 1871 - Poets, English |
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... writing to Warburton on October 7 , 1743 , says , " I have given Bowyer your comment on the Essay on Criticism this ... writes word that he shall keep it back till Warburton goes to town . There is no doubt that the edition was printed ...
... writing to Warburton on October 7 , 1743 , says , " I have given Bowyer your comment on the Essay on Criticism this ... writes word that he shall keep it back till Warburton goes to town . There is no doubt that the edition was printed ...
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... writer , when the image had full possession of his I fear , arise sometimes merely from the ambiguity of words ; there is supposed to be some relation between a soft line and a soft can differ couch , or very little in their cadence ...
... writer , when the image had full possession of his I fear , arise sometimes merely from the ambiguity of words ; there is supposed to be some relation between a soft line and a soft can differ couch , or very little in their cadence ...
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... writer . " It is , however , certain that the poem before us is by no means destitute of a just integrity , and a lucid order . Each of the precepts and remarks naturally introduce the succeeding ones , so as to form an entire whole ...
... writer . " It is , however , certain that the poem before us is by no means destitute of a just integrity , and a lucid order . Each of the precepts and remarks naturally introduce the succeeding ones , so as to form an entire whole ...
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... writer who was openly abused in the poem , and there was an asperity in the language which savoured of personal hostility . He and Pope were slightly acquainted . " At his first coming to town , " says Dennis , " he was very importu ...
... writer who was openly abused in the poem , and there was an asperity in the language which savoured of personal hostility . He and Pope were slightly acquainted . " At his first coming to town , " says Dennis , " he was very importu ...
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... a mind , " said the infuriated critic , " to enquire between Sunninghill and Oaking- ham , for a young , squab , short gentleman , an eternal writer of amorous pastoral madrigals , and the very bow of the AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM . 13.
... a mind , " said the infuriated critic , " to enquire between Sunninghill and Oaking- ham , for a young , squab , short gentleman , an eternal writer of amorous pastoral madrigals , and the very bow of the AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM . 13.
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Page 462 - To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill; And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than Hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue.
Page 424 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right : In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity : All must be false that thwart this one great end ; And all of God, that bless mankind or mend.
Page 491 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Page 356 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire; He asks no .angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 365 - Great wits are sure to madness near allied; And thin partitions do their bounds divide: Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Page 153 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; 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 'em all.
Page 207 - What might this be? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Page 142 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Page 363 - 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?
Page 393 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.