The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, 2. köideB. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly [and others], 1797 - 3650 pages |
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... NOTES . 5 Flendus * Ovid seems to have had the merit of inventing this beau- tiful species of writing epistles under feigned names . Though indeed Propertius has one composition of this fort , an Epiftle of Arethusa to Lycortas , B. iv ...
... NOTES . 5 Flendus * Ovid seems to have had the merit of inventing this beau- tiful species of writing epistles under feigned names . Though indeed Propertius has one composition of this fort , an Epiftle of Arethusa to Lycortas , B. iv ...
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... NOTES . VER . 12. A childish false thought ! VER . 17. No more ] This allusion to her infamous paffion is very indelicate indeed ! VER . 26. Not Bacchus felf ] These lines were evidently copied in the famous epigram of Lumine Acon ...
... NOTES . VER . 12. A childish false thought ! VER . 17. No more ] This allusion to her infamous paffion is very indelicate indeed ! VER . 26. Not Bacchus felf ] These lines were evidently copied in the famous epigram of Lumine Acon ...
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... NOTES . VER . 139. Stung with my love ] The ten next verses are much fuperior to the original . That NOTES . into the Ionian sea , in order to SAPPHO TO PHAON . 15.
... NOTES . VER . 139. Stung with my love ] The ten next verses are much fuperior to the original . That NOTES . into the Ionian sea , in order to SAPPHO TO PHAON . 15.
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... NOTES . into the Ionian sea , in order to cure themselves of the passion of love . Their various characters , and effects of this leap , are de- scribed with infinite pleasantry . One hundred and twenty - four males , and one hundred ...
... NOTES . into the Ionian sea , in order to cure themselves of the passion of love . Their various characters , and effects of this leap , are de- scribed with infinite pleasantry . One hundred and twenty - four males , and one hundred ...
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... NOTES . VER.40 . Love and Fame ] Fame is not a passion . VER . 41. Yet write ] This is taken from the Latin letters that passed betwixt Eloisa and Abelard , and which had been a few years before published in London by Rawlinson , and ...
... NOTES . VER.40 . Love and Fame ] Fame is not a passion . VER . 41. Yet write ] This is taken from the Latin letters that passed betwixt Eloisa and Abelard , and which had been a few years before published in London by Rawlinson , and ...
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Page 37 - Long-sounding aisles, and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence., and a dread repose: Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Page 313 - Inspiration ; his ideas are vast and sublime ; his people are a superior order of beings ; there is nothing about them, nothing in the air of their actions or their attitudes, or the style and cast of their limbs or features, that reminds us of their belonging to our own species.
Page 68 - As when a shepherd of the Hebrid Isles*, Placed far amid the melancholy main, (Whether it be lone fancy him beguiles ; Or that aerial beings sometimes deign To stand embodied, to our senses plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro: Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show.
Page 34 - And Saints with wonder heard the vows I made, Yet then, to those dread altars as I drew...
Page 397 - Go, then, where only bliss sincere is known! Go, where to love and to enjoy are one ! Yet take these tears, Mortality's relief, And, till we share your joys, forgive our grief: These little rites, a stone, a verse receive, Tis all a father, all a friend can give...
Page 306 - Who, careless now of interest, fame, or fate, Perhaps forgets that Oxford e'er was great ; Or deeming meanest what we greatest call, Beholds thee glorious only in thy fall.
Page 401 - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
Page 402 - OF manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit a man, simplicity a child : With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age : Above temptation in a low estate, And uncorrupted ev'n among the great : 6 A safe companion, and an easy friend, Unblam'd thro
Page 38 - Ev'n here, where frozen chastity retires, Love finds an altar for forbidden fires. I ought to grieve, but cannot what I ought; I mourn the lover, not lament the fault; I view my crime, but kindle at the view...
Page 397 - Who knew no Wish but what the world might hear : Of softest manners, unaffected mind, Lover of peace, and friend of human kind : Go live ! for Heav'n's Eternal year is thine, Go, and exalt thy Moral to Divine.