The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others: To which Were Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks, 3. köideC. and J. Rivington, 1824 |
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... Gnomes , Nymphs , and Salaman- ders . The Gnomes or Demons of Earth delight in mischief ; but the Sylphs , whose habitation is in the Air , are the best conditioned Creatures ima- ginable . For they say , any mortals may enjoy the most ...
... Gnomes , Nymphs , and Salaman- ders . The Gnomes or Demons of Earth delight in mischief ; but the Sylphs , whose habitation is in the Air , are the best conditioned Creatures ima- ginable . For they say , any mortals may enjoy the most ...
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... Gnomes and Sylphs , disguised like ruffians , had shot him , as a punishment for revealing the secrets of the Cabala ; a crime not to be pardoned by these jealous spirits , as Villars himself has declared in his book . " Warton . That ...
... Gnomes and Sylphs , disguised like ruffians , had shot him , as a punishment for revealing the secrets of the Cabala ; a crime not to be pardoned by these jealous spirits , as Villars himself has declared in his book . " Warton . That ...
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... Gnomes , Nymphs , and Salamanders ; he enlisted these imaginary beings in his service , as suitable agents for his purpose . But although he was indebted to this idea of the Rosicrucians for his machinery , the use he has made of them ...
... Gnomes , Nymphs , and Salamanders ; he enlisted these imaginary beings in his service , as suitable agents for his purpose . But although he was indebted to this idea of the Rosicrucians for his machinery , the use he has made of them ...
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... , when the mind , before its leaving this , has not been well purged and purified by philosophy ; which furnishes an occasion for much useful satire . Warburton . 65 The graver Prude sinks downward to a Gnome , THE RAPE OF THE LOCK . 173.
... , when the mind , before its leaving this , has not been well purged and purified by philosophy ; which furnishes an occasion for much useful satire . Warburton . 65 The graver Prude sinks downward to a Gnome , THE RAPE OF THE LOCK . 173.
Page 174
... Gnome , In search of mischief still on earth to roam . The light Coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair , And sport and flutter in the fields of Air . Know further yet ; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind , is by some Sylph embrac'd ...
... Gnome , In search of mischief still on earth to roam . The light Coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair , And sport and flutter in the fields of Air . Know further yet ; whoever fair and chaste Rejects mankind , is by some Sylph embrac'd ...
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Page 101 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 93 - And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is still, — the style is excellent; The sense, they humbly take upon content. Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found...
Page 45 - Ten Censure wrong for one who Writes amiss ; A Fool might once himself alone expose, Now One in Verse makes many more in Prose. 'Tis with our Judgments as our Watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 7 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again ; Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd : Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Page 186 - This day, black omens threat the brightest fair, That e'er deserv'da watchful spirit's care; Some dire disaster, or by force, or slight; But what, or where, the fates have wrapt in night. Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail china jar receive a flaw; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade; Forget her pray'rs, or miss a masquerade; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; Or whether Heav'n has doom'd that Shock must fall.
Page 53 - As half-form'd insects on the banks of Nile ; Unfinish'd things, one knows not what to call, Their generation's so equivocal : To tell 'em, would a hundred tongues require, Or one vain wit's, that might a hundred tire.
Page 81 - While from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise!
Page 204 - fore Gad, you must be civil! "Plague on't! 'tis past a jest — nay prithee, pox! "Give her the hair" — he spoke, and rapp'd his box. "It grieves me much" (replied the Peer again) "Who speaks so well should ever speak in vain. But by this Lock, this sacred Lock I swear, (Which never more shall join its parted hair; Which...
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Page 196 - And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies. Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast, When husbands, or when lap-dogs breathe their last; Or when rich china vessels fall'n from high, In glitt'ring dust and painted fragments lie! "Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine," (The victor cry'd) "the glorious prize is mine!