The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, 2. köideB. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly [and others], 1797 - 3650 pages |
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... Letters of the Prefident Montefquieu ; the beauty of which writer is his expreffive brevity ; which Lord Hervey has lengthened to an unnatural degree , espe- cially as Roxana is fuppofed to write juft after she has swallowed a deadly ...
... Letters of the Prefident Montefquieu ; the beauty of which writer is his expreffive brevity ; which Lord Hervey has lengthened to an unnatural degree , espe- cially as Roxana is fuppofed to write juft after she has swallowed a deadly ...
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... letter of Abelard's to a Friend , which contained the history of his misfortune , fell into the hands of Eloifa . This awakening all her tenderness , occafioned thofe celebrated letters ( out of which the following is partly extracted ) ...
... letter of Abelard's to a Friend , which contained the history of his misfortune , fell into the hands of Eloifa . This awakening all her tenderness , occafioned thofe celebrated letters ( out of which the following is partly extracted ) ...
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... letters trembling I unclofe , That well - known name awakens all my woes . NOTES . 25 30 VER . 24. Forgot myfelf to flone ] This is an expreffion of Mil- ton ; as is alfo , caverns fhagged with horrid thorn , and the epithets , pale ...
... letters trembling I unclofe , That well - known name awakens all my woes . NOTES . 25 30 VER . 24. Forgot myfelf to flone ] This is an expreffion of Mil- ton ; as is alfo , caverns fhagged with horrid thorn , and the epithets , pale ...
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... letters that paffed betwixt Eloifa and Abelard , and which had been a few years before published in London by ... letters , ver . 51 , is taken and amplified ; and it is a little remarkable that this ufe of letters is in the fourth book ...
... letters that paffed betwixt Eloifa and Abelard , and which had been a few years before published in London by ... letters , ver . 51 , is taken and amplified ; and it is a little remarkable that this ufe of letters is in the fourth book ...
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Alexander Pope. Heav'n first taught letters for fome wretch's aid , Some banish'd lover , or fome captive maid ; 55 They live , they speak , they breathe what love infpires , Warm from the foul , and faithful to its fires , The virgin's ...
Alexander Pope. Heav'n first taught letters for fome wretch's aid , Some banish'd lover , or fome captive maid ; 55 They live , they speak , they breathe what love infpires , Warm from the foul , and faithful to its fires , The virgin's ...
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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.