The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, 2. köideB. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly [and others], 1797 - 3650 pages |
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... fubject of Roxana to Ufbeck from the incomparable Perfian Letters of the Prefident Montefquieu ; the beauty of which ... fubjects are , The Hebrew Mother to Titus Vefpafian , Erminia to Tancred , Radamiftus to Zenobia , Semiramis ...
... fubject of Roxana to Ufbeck from the incomparable Perfian Letters of the Prefident Montefquieu ; the beauty of which ... fubjects are , The Hebrew Mother to Titus Vefpafian , Erminia to Tancred , Radamiftus to Zenobia , Semiramis ...
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... fubject to fits , he perfuaded his followers , that during those trances he received infpirations , from whence he dictated his laws : he is faid to have been the inventor of the Runic characters . P. This rude nation had great ideas ...
... fubject to fits , he perfuaded his followers , that during those trances he received infpirations , from whence he dictated his laws : he is faid to have been the inventor of the Runic characters . P. This rude nation had great ideas ...
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... fubject is much inferior to his pathetic Douglas . VER . 178. But in the centre of the hallow'd choir , & c . ] In ... fubjects of their works ; which fculpture bears a resemblance , in its manner and character , to the manner and ...
... fubject is much inferior to his pathetic Douglas . VER . 178. But in the centre of the hallow'd choir , & c . ] In ... fubjects of their works ; which fculpture bears a resemblance , in its manner and character , to the manner and ...
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... fubjects from Homer , he mentions Bouchardon with the honour he deferves , and relates the following anecdote ... fubject . A following line in Virgil , which is indeed taken from Homer , fur- nishes a noble subject for fculpture ...
... fubjects from Homer , he mentions Bouchardon with the honour he deferves , and relates the following anecdote ... fubject . A following line in Virgil , which is indeed taken from Homer , fur- nishes a noble subject for fculpture ...
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... fubject . A differtation on this topic , which I have read , may perhaps one day be published . Even his file has been reprefented as too fwelling and bombaft ; but , carefully examined , it will appear not to abound with those violent ...
... fubject . A differtation on this topic , which I have read , may perhaps one day be published . Even his file has been reprefented as too fwelling and bombaft ; but , carefully examined , it will appear not to abound with those violent ...
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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.