The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeMacmillan and Company, limited, 1893 - 505 pages |
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Page xii
... true critic and the true student were rare among the children of our Augustan age . For in this age literature is in the main regarded under two aspects - as a political instrument and as an intellectual stimulant . The literary hero of ...
... true critic and the true student were rare among the children of our Augustan age . For in this age literature is in the main regarded under two aspects - as a political instrument and as an intellectual stimulant . The literary hero of ...
Page xxxvi
... true foster - father of the work , to Swift 1 . There is no necessity for entering at length into the effect which this unparalleled satire created , and the endless warfare into which by its publication Pope had with full consciousness ...
... true foster - father of the work , to Swift 1 . There is no necessity for entering at length into the effect which this unparalleled satire created , and the endless warfare into which by its publication Pope had with full consciousness ...
Page xl
... True Narrative of the method by which Pope's letters have been published ' ( a paper doubtless drawn up by Pope at the same time ) it was stated that he had recalled from his several correspondents the letters formerly written to them ...
... True Narrative of the method by which Pope's letters have been published ' ( a paper doubtless drawn up by Pope at the same time ) it was stated that he had recalled from his several correspondents the letters formerly written to them ...
Page xlvi
... true generosity of spirit held him fast to his father's faith ; and as he became the tool of no political faction , so he permitted no arguments of self - interest to weigh against the dictates of an unaffected piety . Yet there remains ...
... true generosity of spirit held him fast to his father's faith ; and as he became the tool of no political faction , so he permitted no arguments of self - interest to weigh against the dictates of an unaffected piety . Yet there remains ...
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... true , that , in every age , the highest character for sense and learning has been obtain'd by those who have been most indebted to them . For , to say truth , whatever is very good sense , must have been common sense in all times ; and ...
... true , that , in every age , the highest character for sense and learning has been obtain'd by those who have been most indebted to them . For , to say truth , whatever is very good sense , must have been common sense in all times ; and ...
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Page 200 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 45 - Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Page 201 - 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; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err...
Page 277 - 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...
Page 46 - Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, " Sister spirit, come away ! " What is this absorbs me quite ? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my...
Page 58 - But most by numbers judge a poet's song; And smooth or rough, with them is right or wrong: In the bright Muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire...
Page 200 - 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 92 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes to virtue wonder'd how they wept.
Page 215 - 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. 310 Man, like the gen'rous vine, supported lives; The strength he gains is from th
Page 227 - 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.