The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, 2. köideB. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly [and others], 1797 - 3650 pages |
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... Thefe two lines have been quoted as the most smooth and mellifluous in our language ; and they are fuppofed to derive their sweetness and harmony from the mixture of fo many Iambics . Pope himfelf preferred the following line to all he ...
... Thefe two lines have been quoted as the most smooth and mellifluous in our language ; and they are fuppofed to derive their sweetness and harmony from the mixture of fo many Iambics . Pope himfelf preferred the following line to all he ...
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... thefe long delays ? Poor Sappho dies while careless Phaon stays . 245 O launch the bark , nor fear the watʼry plain ; 250 Venus for thee fhall smooth her native main . O launch thy bark , fecure of profp'rous gales ; Cupid for thee ...
... thefe long delays ? Poor Sappho dies while careless Phaon stays . 245 O launch the bark , nor fear the watʼry plain ; 250 Venus for thee fhall smooth her native main . O launch thy bark , fecure of profp'rous gales ; Cupid for thee ...
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... thefe deep folitudes ] These very beautiful lines ap- pear truly to Lord Kaims to be faulty and exceptionable , on ac count of the pause that intervenes between the verb and the con- fequent fubftantive . Hide Hide it , my heart ...
... thefe deep folitudes ] These very beautiful lines ap- pear truly to Lord Kaims to be faulty and exceptionable , on ac count of the pause that intervenes between the verb and the con- fequent fubftantive . Hide Hide it , my heart ...
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... thefe circumftances , in the fcenery view of the mo- naftery , have perhaps a little impropriety when introduced into a place fo lately founded as was the Paraclete ; but are fo well ima gined , and fo highly painted , that they demand ...
... thefe circumftances , in the fcenery view of the mo- naftery , have perhaps a little impropriety when introduced into a place fo lately founded as was the Paraclete ; but are fo well ima gined , and fo highly painted , that they demand ...
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... Thefe works fhew us the taste of the age . His words are : " T'envoye ores Boece de Confolation , que j'ai tranflaté en François , jaçoit que bien entendes le Latin . It is to be regretted that we have no exact picture of the perfon and ...
... Thefe works fhew us the taste of the age . His words are : " T'envoye ores Boece de Confolation , que j'ai tranflaté en François , jaçoit que bien entendes le Latin . It is to be regretted that we have no exact picture of the perfon 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.