Two Lectures on the Poetry of Pope, and on His Own Travels in America: Delivered to the Leeds Mechanics' Institution & Literary Society, December 5th and 6th, 1850 |
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... verse , how well soe'er it flow , That tends to make one honest man my foe , Give virtue scandal , innocence a fear , Or from the soft - eyed virgin steal a tear . " I return to my authorities . I do not quote Bishop Warburton , as he ...
... verse , how well soe'er it flow , That tends to make one honest man my foe , Give virtue scandal , innocence a fear , Or from the soft - eyed virgin steal a tear . " I return to my authorities . I do not quote Bishop Warburton , as he ...
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... verses by a youth , we may call him a boy , of sixteen , I do not see why a rugged or inharmonious English verse need ever again have been written ; and what is more , I believe very few such have been written . Mr. Macaulay says on ...
... verses by a youth , we may call him a boy , of sixteen , I do not see why a rugged or inharmonious English verse need ever again have been written ; and what is more , I believe very few such have been written . Mr. Macaulay says on ...
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... verses was almost pre- cocious , the complete mastery of his art seems to have been gradually and laboriously developed . " So regular my rage , " was the description which he has himself applied to his own poetry . It was not so much ...
... verses was almost pre- cocious , the complete mastery of his art seems to have been gradually and laboriously developed . " So regular my rage , " was the description which he has himself applied to his own poetry . It was not so much ...
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... verse , —that , if I may so express myself , it has not the twang of Homer . All this , I think , must be admitted ; by some the poems of Sir Walter Scott , and old ballads like Chevy Chase , have been thought to convey a better notion ...
... verse , —that , if I may so express myself , it has not the twang of Homer . All this , I think , must be admitted ; by some the poems of Sir Walter Scott , and old ballads like Chevy Chase , have been thought to convey a better notion ...
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... verse as mean as mine . " My limits , more than my materials , warn me that I must desist . As , however , with reference to the single object which I have all along had in view , I think it more politic that I should let the words of ...
... verse as mean as mine . " My limits , more than my materials , warn me that I must desist . As , however , with reference to the single object which I have all along had in view , I think it more politic that I should let the words of ...
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Page 16 - Peace to all such! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please. And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yev with jealous eyes.
Page 11 - 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 them all.
Page 21 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood! The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line...
Page 21 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and shamed by ridicule alone.
Page 19 - But why then publish? Granville the polite, And knowing Walsh, would tell me I could write; Well-natured Garth inflamed with early praise; And Congreve loved, and Swift endured my lays; The courtly Talbot, Somers, Sheffield read; Ev'n mitred Rochester would nod the head, And St. John's self (great Dryden's friends before) With open arms received one poet more.
Page 18 - Of all her dears she never slander'd one, But cares not if a thousand are undone. Would Chloe know if you're alive or dead ? She bids her footman put it in her head. Chloe is prudent — Would you too be wise ? Then never break your heart when Chloe dies.
Page 11 - True wit is nature to advantage dressed, — What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Page 11 - For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best.
Page 21 - 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 11 - 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.