The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by R. Carruthers, Volume 31853 |
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... Translator , and the Duchess of Newcastle Settle , Banks , and Broome ... PAGE 179 179 180 183 184 185 .... 186 Caxton the Printer 187 Colley Cibber's Periwig , & c . 187 Ridpath and Mist 189 The Geese that saved the Capitol 189 The ...
... Translator , and the Duchess of Newcastle Settle , Banks , and Broome ... PAGE 179 179 180 183 184 185 .... 186 Caxton the Printer 187 Colley Cibber's Periwig , & c . 187 Ridpath and Mist 189 The Geese that saved the Capitol 189 The ...
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... translated him into their languages ) of all this number not a man hath stood up to say one word in his defence . The only exception is the author of the following poem , who doubtless had either a better insight into the grounds of ...
... translated him into their languages ) of all this number not a man hath stood up to say one word in his defence . The only exception is the author of the following poem , who doubtless had either a better insight into the grounds of ...
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... translated into French . Essay on Man , by the Abbé Reynel , in verse ; by Monsieur Silhouette , in prose , 1737 ; and since by others in French , Italian , and Latin . lived with the great without flattery ; been a friend 14 THE DUNCIAD .
... translated into French . Essay on Man , by the Abbé Reynel , in verse ; by Monsieur Silhouette , in prose , 1737 ; and since by others in French , Italian , and Latin . lived with the great without flattery ; been a friend 14 THE DUNCIAD .
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... with saying , that " there are three poems in our tongue of the same nature , and each a master - piece in its kind ; the Essay on Translated 18 Spectator , No. 253 . Verse ; the Essay on the Art of Poetry ; 22 TESTIMONIES OF AUTHORS .
... with saying , that " there are three poems in our tongue of the same nature , and each a master - piece in its kind ; the Essay on Translated 18 Spectator , No. 253 . Verse ; the Essay on the Art of Poetry ; 22 TESTIMONIES OF AUTHORS .
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... translation of the Iliad , celebrated by numerous pens , yet shall it suffice to mention the indefatigable 19 Letter to B. B. at the end of the Remarks on Pope's Homer , 1717 . 20 Printed 1728 , p . 12 . 21 Alma , cant . ii . SIR ...
... translation of the Iliad , celebrated by numerous pens , yet shall it suffice to mention the indefatigable 19 Letter to B. B. at the end of the Remarks on Pope's Homer , 1717 . 20 Printed 1728 , p . 12 . 21 Alma , cant . ii . SIR ...
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Popular passages
Page 284 - 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. Man, like the generous vine, supported lives ; The strength he gains is from th
Page 261 - 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...
Page 252 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 291 - 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 ? But still this world (so fitted for the knave) Contents us not.
Page 3 - Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word ; Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Page 271 - Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...
Page 298 - See the sole bliss heav'n could on all bestow ! Which who but feels can taste, but thinks can know: Yet poor with fortune, and with learning blind, The bad must miss, the good, untaught, will find; 330 Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through nature up to nature's God: Pursues that chain which links th...