The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, Volume 1J. Nichol, 1856 |
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... verses as mine that are not inserted in this collection . And perhaps nothing could make it worth my while to own what are really so , but to avoid the imputation of so many dull and immoral things as , partly by malice , and partly by ...
... verses as mine that are not inserted in this collection . And perhaps nothing could make it worth my while to own what are really so , but to avoid the imputation of so many dull and immoral things as , partly by malice , and partly by ...
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... verses than of those which are called Pastorals ; nor a smaller , than of those which are truly so . It therefore seems necessary to give some account of this kind of poem ; and it is my design to comprise in this short paper the ...
... verses than of those which are called Pastorals ; nor a smaller , than of those which are truly so . It therefore seems necessary to give some account of this kind of poem ; and it is my design to comprise in this short paper the ...
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... verses were thus at first- All nature mourns , the birds their songs deny , Nor wasted brooks the thirsty flowers supply ; 80 If Delia smile , the flowers begin to spring , The brooks to murmur , and the birds to sing . STREPHON . Say ...
... verses were thus at first- All nature mourns , the birds their songs deny , Nor wasted brooks the thirsty flowers supply ; 80 If Delia smile , the flowers begin to spring , The brooks to murmur , and the birds to sing . STREPHON . Say ...
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... verse on this relenting stone : ' Let Nature change , let Heaven and Earth deplore , Fair Daphne's dead , and Love is now no more ! ' " Tis done , and Nature's various charms decay ; See gloomy clouds obscure the cheerful day ! Now hung ...
... verse on this relenting stone : ' Let Nature change , let Heaven and Earth deplore , Fair Daphne's dead , and Love is now no more ! ' " Tis done , and Nature's various charms decay ; See gloomy clouds obscure the cheerful day ! Now hung ...
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... verse makes many more in prose . " Tis with our judgments as our watches , none Go just alike , yet each believes his own . In poets as true genius is but rare , True taste as seldom is the critic's share ; Both must alike from Heaven ...
... verse makes many more in prose . " Tis with our judgments as our watches , none Go just alike , yet each believes his own . In poets as true genius is but rare , True taste as seldom is the critic's share ; Both must alike from Heaven ...
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ALEXANDER POPE Ambrose Philips ancient Bavius beauty bless'd blest bliss breast breath bright charms court cried critics crown'd Curll Cynthus divine Dunciad e'er earth Eclogues Elkanah Settle envy EPISTLE eternal eyes fair fame fate fire fix'd flames flowers fools genius glory Gnome grace groves happy head heart Heaven honour Horace Iliad kings knave laws learn'd live Lord Lord Bolingbroke mankind mind mortal Muse Muse's Nature Nature's ne'er never numbers nymph o'er once passion pastoral peace plain pleased poem poet Pope Pope's praise pride proud rage reason rhyme rise sacred Sappho satire sense shade shine sighs sing skies smile soft song soul spleen Sylphs taught tears Thalestris thee Theocritus things thou thought trembling truth Twas Umbriel VARIATIONS verse virtue WESTMINSTER ABBEY whate'er Whig wings write youth
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Page 177 - 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 : 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 37 - And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is still, — the style is excellent; The sense, they humbly take upon content. Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found...
Page 38 - whispers through the trees;' If crystal streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep;' Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Page 29 - 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 210 - 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 71 - 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,) With earnest eyes, and round, unthinking face, He first the snuff-box open'd, then the case, And thus broke out — -"My lord, why, what the devil!
Page 45 - And speak, though sure, with seeming diffidence: Some positive, persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so ; But you, with pleasure, own your errors past, 570 And make each day a critique on the last.
Page 207 - To see all others' faults, and feel our own : Condemn'd in business or in arts to drudge, Without a second, or without a judge : Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land ? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
Page 197 - For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 212 - tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out : Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, thro...