The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander PopeHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 - 672 pages |
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... line from Cadmus trace , From godlike Perseus those of Argive race . Unhappy Cadmus ' fate who does not know , And the long series of succeeding woe ? 320 How oft the Furies from the deeps of night Arose , and mix'd with men in mortal ...
... line from Cadmus trace , From godlike Perseus those of Argive race . Unhappy Cadmus ' fate who does not know , And the long series of succeeding woe ? 320 How oft the Furies from the deeps of night Arose , and mix'd with men in mortal ...
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... line : Heav'n had not crown'd his wishes with a son , But two fair daughters heir'd his state and throne . To him Apollo ( wondrous to relate ! But who can pierce into the depths of fate ? ) Had sungExpect thy sons on Argos ' shore , A ...
... line : Heav'n had not crown'd his wishes with a son , But two fair daughters heir'd his state and throne . To him Apollo ( wondrous to relate ! But who can pierce into the depths of fate ? ) Had sungExpect thy sons on Argos ' shore , A ...
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... line . Learn hence for ancient rules a just es- teem ; To copy Nature is to copy them . 140 Some beauties yet no precepts can de- clare , For there's a happiness as well as care . Music resembles poetry ; in each Are nameless graces ...
... line . Learn hence for ancient rules a just es- teem ; To copy Nature is to copy them . 140 Some beauties yet no precepts can de- clare , For there's a happiness as well as care . Music resembles poetry ; in each Are nameless graces ...
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... line ; 90 Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit , One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit . Poets , like painters , thus unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace , With gold and jewels cover every part , And ...
... line ; 90 Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit , One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit . Poets , like painters , thus unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace , With gold and jewels cover every part , And ...
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... line , it whispers thro ' 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 ...
... line , it whispers thro ' 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 ...
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Page 141 - 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 90 - Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face ; Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes. The busy sylphs surround their darling care, These set the head, and those divide the hair, Some fold the sleeve, whilst others plait the gown ; And Betty's prais'd for labours not her own. CANTO II. NOT with more glories, in th...
Page 139 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy Reason would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Page 98 - Cares produce, Or who would learn one earthly Thing of Use ? To patch, nay ogle, might become a Saint, Nor could it sure be such a Sin to paint. But since, alas ! frail Beauty must decay...
Page 72 - 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 : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 94 - The little engine on his fingers' ends; This just behind Belinda's neck he spread, As o'er the fragrant steams she bends her head. Swift to the lock a thousand sprites repair...
Page 93 - Falls undistinguish'd by the victor spade! Thus far both armies to Belinda yield; Now to the baron fate inclines the field. His warlike Amazon her host invades, Th' imperial consort of the crown of spades.
Page 168 - But clear and artless pouring through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows ? Whose seats the weary traveller repose ? Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise ? " The Man of Ross," each lisping babe replies. Behold the market-place with poor o'erspread ! The Man of Ross...
Page 138 - Say first, of God above, or man below What can we reason, but from what we know? Of man, what see we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer?
Page 91 - 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.