Selected Poems of Alexander PopeCrofts, 1926 - 271 pages |
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... falls with singular un- pleasantness upon the ear of the modern reader . It suggests to him that the skill of the Classical poet was mechanical skill in counting to ten . But the word " numbers " had a different denotation and a ...
... falls with singular un- pleasantness upon the ear of the modern reader . It suggests to him that the skill of the Classical poet was mechanical skill in counting to ten . But the word " numbers " had a different denotation and a ...
Page xxvii
... Fall of Tory ministry . Dispersal of the Tory wits . 1715-1725 . Pope makes himself independent financially by his translation of Homer and his edition of Shakespeare . 1715-1716 . Quarrel with Addison . 1718. Pope settles at Twickenham ...
... Fall of Tory ministry . Dispersal of the Tory wits . 1715-1725 . Pope makes himself independent financially by his translation of Homer and his edition of Shakespeare . 1715-1716 . Quarrel with Addison . 1718. Pope settles at Twickenham ...
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... fall and rise ! While , at each change , the son of Libyan Jove Now burns with glory , and then melts with love ; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow , Now sighs steal out , and tears begin to flow : Persians and Greeks like ...
... fall and rise ! While , at each change , the son of Libyan Jove Now burns with glory , and then melts with love ; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow , Now sighs steal out , and tears begin to flow : Persians and Greeks like ...
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... fall , and Rome . With Tyranny , then Superstition join'd , As that the body , this enslav'd the mind ; Much was believ'd , but little understood , And to be dull was constru'd to be good ; A second deluge Learning thus o'er - run , And ...
... fall , and Rome . With Tyranny , then Superstition join'd , As that the body , this enslav'd the mind ; Much was believ'd , but little understood , And to be dull was constru'd to be good ; A second deluge Learning thus o'er - run , And ...
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... fall To one man's treat , but for another's ball ? When Florio speaks , what virgin could withstand , If gentle Damon did not squeeze her hand ? With varying vanities , from ev'ry part , 85 90 55 95 100 They shift the moving Toy - shop ...
... fall To one man's treat , but for another's ball ? When Florio speaks , what virgin could withstand , If gentle Damon did not squeeze her hand ? With varying vanities , from ev'ry part , 85 90 55 95 100 They shift the moving Toy - shop ...
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ALEXANDER POPE Balaam beauty Belinda blessing blest charms Colley Cibber Court Critics Dæmons divine Duke Dunciad e'er Earl of Burlington ease eighteenth century Epistle Essay on Criticism ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame fate flow'rs Folly fool gen'ral gen'rous genius give glory Gnome grace happy heart Heav'n honour Horace int'rest King knave laugh laws learn'd learned live Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Fanny Lord Hervey mankind mind Moral Essays Muse Nature ne'er never numbers nymph o'er once painted Passion pleas'd pleasure poem Poet poetry Pope Pope's pow'r praise pray'r pride proud Queen rage Reason rhyme rich rise rules Sappho Satire Scriblerus Club Self-love sense shine soul spirit Sylphs taste Thalestris thee things thou thought thro tremble Truth verse Vice Virtue Walpole Warburton Whig whole Wife wise write
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Page 158 - Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies: His wit all see-saw between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis.
Page 76 - As Eastern priests in giddy circles run, And turn their heads to imitate the sun. Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule — Then drop into thyself, and be a fool!
Page 155 - 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...
Page 43 - She said ; then raging to Sir Plume repairs, And bids her Beau demand the precious hairs: (Sir Plume of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane...
Page 9 - Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky, Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way; Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!
Page 74 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees. Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 86 - Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
Page 74 - 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 66 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 32 - Beam new transient Colours flings, Colours that change whene'er they wave their Wings. Amid the Circle, on the gilded Mast, Superior by the head, was Ariel...