The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, Volume 1J. Gladding, 1836 - English poetry |
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... kind which any nation has produced ever since the time of Virgil ; but this he said before Mr. Pope's Pastorals appeared . Mr. Walsh pronounces on our Shepherd's boy ( as Mr. Pope called himself , ) the following judgment , in a letter ...
... kind which any nation has produced ever since the time of Virgil ; but this he said before Mr. Pope's Pastorals appeared . Mr. Walsh pronounces on our Shepherd's boy ( as Mr. Pope called himself , ) the following judgment , in a letter ...
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... kind of reward which he received for his writings , which do honour to our age and country , his religion rendering him incapable of a place , which the Lord Treasurer Oxford used to express his con- cern for , but without offering him ...
... kind of reward which he received for his writings , which do honour to our age and country , his religion rendering him incapable of a place , which the Lord Treasurer Oxford used to express his con- cern for , but without offering him ...
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... kind of hint as to the order of time in which they are to be taken . The old man then lay down satisfied in the conscience of having , by this one act , paid his just debts , obliged a woman who , he was told , had merit , and shown an ...
... kind of hint as to the order of time in which they are to be taken . The old man then lay down satisfied in the conscience of having , by this one act , paid his just debts , obliged a woman who , he was told , had merit , and shown an ...
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... months ago , is a master - piece in its kind . The observations follow one another , like those in Horace's Art of Poetry , without that methodical re- gularity which would have been requisite in a prose writer LIFE OF POPE . xiii.
... months ago , is a master - piece in its kind . The observations follow one another , like those in Horace's Art of Poetry , without that methodical re- gularity which would have been requisite in a prose writer LIFE OF POPE . xiii.
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... kind of beauty in the numbers , and concludes with saying , " That we have three poems in our tongue of the same nature , and each a master - piece in its kind ; the Essay on Trans- lated Verse , the Essay on the Art of Poetry xiv LIFE ...
... kind of beauty in the numbers , and concludes with saying , " That we have three poems in our tongue of the same nature , and each a master - piece in its kind ; the Essay on Trans- lated Verse , the Essay on the Art of Poetry xiv LIFE ...
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Page 240 - 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; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer...
Page 267 - God loves from whole to parts: but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake! The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race...
Page 73 - The world recedes ; it disappears ! Heaven opens on my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring ! Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! O grave, where is thy victory ? O death, where is thy sting...
Page 233 - Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar, Wait the great teacher, Death ; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never Is, but always to be blest ; The soul, uneasy, and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 84 - As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. *Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, 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.
Page 101 - 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.
Page 80 - 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.
Page 245 - 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.
Page 76 - First follow nature and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same : Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, 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...
Page 252 - Thus then to man the voice of nature spake — "Go, from the creatures thy instructions take: Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.