The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with life of the author and notes by J. LuptonW. Tegg, 1867 - 526 pages |
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... spreading beech displays , Hylas and Egon sung their rural lays ; This mourn'd a faithless , that an absent love , And Delia's name and Doris ' fill'd the grove . Ye Mantuan nymphs , your sacred succour bring ; Hylas ' and ¯gon's rural ...
... spreading beech displays , Hylas and Egon sung their rural lays ; This mourn'd a faithless , that an absent love , And Delia's name and Doris ' fill'd the grove . Ye Mantuan nymphs , your sacred succour bring ; Hylas ' and ¯gon's rural ...
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... spread ; The forest wonder'd at the unusual grain ; And secret transports touch'd the conscious swain . Fair Liberty , Britannia's goddess , rears Her cheerful head , and leads the golden years . Ye vigorous swains ! while youth ...
... spread ; The forest wonder'd at the unusual grain ; And secret transports touch'd the conscious swain . Fair Liberty , Britannia's goddess , rears Her cheerful head , and leads the golden years . Ye vigorous swains ! while youth ...
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... spreads on every place ; The face of nature we no more survey ; All glares alike , without distinction gay : But true expression , like the unchanging sun , Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It gilds all objects , but it ...
... spreads on every place ; The face of nature we no more survey ; All glares alike , without distinction gay : But true expression , like the unchanging sun , Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It gilds all objects , but it ...
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... spreading notion of the town ; They reason and conclude by precedent , And own stale nonsense which they ne'er invent . Some judge of authors ' names , not works , and then Nor praise nor blame the writings , but the men . Of all the ...
... spreading notion of the town ; They reason and conclude by precedent , And own stale nonsense which they ne'er invent . Some judge of authors ' names , not works , and then Nor praise nor blame the writings , but the men . Of all the ...
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... Spread all his sails , and durst the deeps explore ; He steer'd securely , and discover'd far , Led by the light of the M¿onian star . Poets , a race long unconfined and free , Still fond and proud of savage liberty , Received his laws ...
... Spread all his sails , and durst the deeps explore ; He steer'd securely , and discover'd far , Led by the light of the M¿onian star . Poets , a race long unconfined and free , Still fond and proud of savage liberty , Received his laws ...
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Page 197 - Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! Thou Great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill; And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
Page 157 - AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot, Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 159 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, 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 197 - 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.
Page 233 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or...
Page 28 - 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 166 - 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...
Page 407 - 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 167 - Created half to rise, and half to fall ; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world...
Page 314 - So impudent I own myself no knave :} So odd, my country's ruin makes me grave. > 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 touched and shamed by ridicule alone.