The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeMacmillan, 1873 - 600 pages |
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Page xxx
... nature . It was very well for Walsh to have admonished him , as an author of sixteen , to take occasion ( in his ... natural vivacity of their dispositions had been heightened , and the charm of their manners had received an additional ...
... nature . It was very well for Walsh to have admonished him , as an author of sixteen , to take occasion ( in his ... natural vivacity of their dispositions had been heightened , and the charm of their manners had received an additional ...
Page xxxi
... nature of the attentions she received and permitted , to arouse the suspicions of her even - minded husband , or to offer materials sufficient at a later date to exercise the malice with which Horace Walpole endeavoured to colour all ...
... nature of the attentions she received and permitted , to arouse the suspicions of her even - minded husband , or to offer materials sufficient at a later date to exercise the malice with which Horace Walpole endeavoured to colour all ...
Page xxxvi
... natures could spare . Inferior but equally irrepressible combatants each contributed his buzz to the general sabbath of ... nature almost indefinitely to prolong . The Dunciad , instead of remaining his last word against the Dunces , was ...
... natures could spare . Inferior but equally irrepressible combatants each contributed his buzz to the general sabbath of ... nature almost indefinitely to prolong . The Dunciad , instead of remaining his last word against the Dunces , was ...
Page xlv
... nature , and instead of contenting himself with burning the offensive copies , he ordered his editor , Mallet , to revile Pope for his breach of trust in terms which reflect even less credit upon the offended than upon the offender ...
... nature , and instead of contenting himself with burning the offensive copies , he ordered his editor , Mallet , to revile Pope for his breach of trust in terms which reflect even less credit upon the offended than upon the offender ...
Page xlvi
... nature had bestowed upon him a brilliant eye and a melodious voice . To counteract the debilitating effects of his miserable health , he had been gifted with an indefatigable activity of mind , aided by an extraordinary memory . But he ...
... nature had bestowed upon him a brilliant eye and a melodious voice . To counteract the debilitating effects of his miserable health , he had been gifted with an indefatigable activity of mind , aided by an extraordinary memory . But he ...
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Page 40 - Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, " Sister spirit, come away ! " What is this absorbs me quite ? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my...
Page 274 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; 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...
Page 74 - The Berries crackle, and the Mill turns round ; On shining Altars of Japan they raise The silver Lamp ; the fiery Spirits blaze. From silver Spouts the grateful Liquors glide, While China's Earth receives the smoking Tide.
Page 49 - A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ : Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where Nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The gen'rous pleasure to be charm'd with wit.
Page 68 - And decks the goddess with the glitt'ring spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transform'd to combs, the speckled, and the white.
Page 52 - 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 65 - Muse! is due: This, ev'n Belinda may vouchsafe to view: Slight is the subject, but not so the praise, If she inspire, and he approve my lays. Say what strange motive, Goddess! could compel A well-bred lord t
Page 78 - 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...
Page 277 - Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Page 275 - Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing! that acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart; Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord.