The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, 1. köideJames Nichol, 1856 - 326 pages |
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... reason to think they can have no reputation which will continue long , or which deserves to do so : for they have always fallen short , not only of what I read of others , but even of my own ideas of poetry . If any one should imagine I ...
... reason to think they can have no reputation which will continue long , or which deserves to do so : for they have always fallen short , not only of what I read of others , but even of my own ideas of poetry . If any one should imagine I ...
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... reason they are not yet more correct is owing to the consideration how short a time they and I have to live . A man that can expect but sixty years may be ashamed to employ thirty in measuring syllables and bringing sense and rhyme ...
... reason they are not yet more correct is owing to the consideration how short a time they and I have to live . A man that can expect but sixty years may be ashamed to employ thirty in measuring syllables and bringing sense and rhyme ...
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... reason his expression is sometimes not concise enough : for the Tetrastic has obliged him to extend his sense to the length of four lines , which would have been more closely confined in the couplet . In the manners , thoughts , and ...
... reason his expression is sometimes not concise enough : for the Tetrastic has obliged him to extend his sense to the length of four lines , which would have been more closely confined in the couplet . In the manners , thoughts , and ...
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... reason wrong . By strange transfusion to improve the mind , Draw off the sense we have , to pour in new ; Which yet , with all their skill , they ne'er could do . Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit , And 30 POPE'S POETICAL WORKS .
... reason wrong . By strange transfusion to improve the mind , Draw off the sense we have , to pour in new ; Which yet , with all their skill , they ne'er could do . Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit , And 30 POPE'S POETICAL WORKS .
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... reason to admire . Then Criticism the Muse's handmaid proved , To dress her charms , and make her more beloved : But following wits from that intention stray'd , Who could not win the mistress , woo'd the maid ; Against the poets their ...
... reason to admire . Then Criticism the Muse's handmaid proved , To dress her charms , and make her more beloved : But following wits from that intention stray'd , Who could not win the mistress , woo'd the maid ; Against the poets their ...
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ALEXANDER POPE ancient Bavius beauty bless'd blest bliss breast breath bright charms court cried critics crown'd Curll Cynthus divine Dunciad e'er earth ease 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