The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, 2. köideB. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly [and others], 1797 - 3650 pages |
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... pow'r to flow , Fix'd in a stupid lethargy of woe : But when its way th ' impetuous paffion found , I rend my treffes , and my breaft I wound ; I rave , then weep ; I curfe , and then complain ; Now fwell to rage , now melt in tears ...
... pow'r to flow , Fix'd in a stupid lethargy of woe : But when its way th ' impetuous paffion found , I rend my treffes , and my breaft I wound ; I rave , then weep ; I curfe , and then complain ; Now fwell to rage , now melt in tears ...
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... pow'r away ; And is my Abelard less kind than they ? Tears still are mine , and those I need not fpare , 45 Love but demands what elfe were fhed in pray'r ; No happier task these faded eyes pursue ; To read and weep is all they now can ...
... pow'r away ; And is my Abelard less kind than they ? Tears still are mine , and those I need not fpare , 45 Love but demands what elfe were fhed in pray'r ; No happier task these faded eyes pursue ; To read and weep is all they now can ...
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... pow'r , And careful watch'd the Planetary hour . Superior , and alone , Confucius ftood , Who taught that useful science , to be good . But on the South , a long majestic race Of Egypt's Priests the gilded niches grace , Who measur'd ...
... pow'r , And careful watch'd the Planetary hour . Superior , and alone , Confucius ftood , Who taught that useful science , to be good . But on the South , a long majestic race Of Egypt's Priests the gilded niches grace , Who measur'd ...
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... pow'r unbounded virtue join'd , His own ftrict judge , and patron of mankind , Much - fuff'ring heroes next their honours claim , Those of lefs noify , and lefs guilty fame , Fair Virtue's filent train : fupreme of these Here ever ...
... pow'r unbounded virtue join'd , His own ftrict judge , and patron of mankind , Much - fuff'ring heroes next their honours claim , Those of lefs noify , and lefs guilty fame , Fair Virtue's filent train : fupreme of these Here ever ...
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... pow'r unknown Straight chang'd the scene , and fnatch'd me from the throne . Before my view appear'd a structure fair , Its fite uncertain , if in earth or air ; With rapid motion turn'd the manfion round ; With ceaseless noife the ...
... pow'r unknown Straight chang'd the scene , and fnatch'd me from the throne . Before my view appear'd a structure fair , Its fite uncertain , if in earth or air ; With rapid motion turn'd the manfion round ; With ceaseless noife the ...
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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.