The Works of Alexander Pope, 2. köideJ. Murray, 1871 - 10 pages |
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... pow'r of understanding fails ; 3 Where beams of warm imagination play , ' The memory's soft figures melt away . ' Nile were supposed to be of this class , and it was believed that they were fashioned by the action of the sun upon the ...
... pow'r of understanding fails ; 3 Where beams of warm imagination play , ' The memory's soft figures melt away . ' Nile were supposed to be of this class , and it was believed that they were fashioned by the action of the sun upon the ...
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... pow'r of music all our hearts allow , And what Timotheus was , is Dryden now . " 1 Our poet here endeavours to fasten on Virgil a most insufferable absur- dity , which no poetical hyperbole will justify , namely , the reality of these ...
... pow'r of music all our hearts allow , And what Timotheus was , is Dryden now . " 1 Our poet here endeavours to fasten on Virgil a most insufferable absur- dity , which no poetical hyperbole will justify , namely , the reality of these ...
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... pow'r of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play , The memory's soft figures melt away . ] These observations are collected from an intimate knowledge of human nature . The cause of that languor and heaviness in the ...
... pow'r of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play , The memory's soft figures melt away . ] These observations are collected from an intimate knowledge of human nature . The cause of that languor and heaviness in the ...
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... pow'r adored , But chiefly Love - to Love an altar built , Of twelve vast French romances , neatly gilt . There lay three garters , half a pair of gloves , And all the trophies of his former loves ; 1 Wakefield remarks , that this line ...
... pow'r adored , But chiefly Love - to Love an altar built , Of twelve vast French romances , neatly gilt . There lay three garters , half a pair of gloves , And all the trophies of his former loves ; 1 Wakefield remarks , that this line ...
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... pow'r Shrink his thin essence like a rivelled flow'r : " Or , as Ixion fixed , the wretch shall feel The giddy motion of the whirling mill , ' That is , her ear - drops set with brilliants . - WAKEFIELD . 2 To crisp in our earlier ...
... pow'r Shrink his thin essence like a rivelled flow'r : " Or , as Ixion fixed , the wretch shall feel The giddy motion of the whirling mill , ' That is , her ear - drops set with brilliants . - WAKEFIELD . 2 To crisp in our earlier ...
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Page 462 - To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill; And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than Hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue.
Page 158 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign Tyrants and of Nymphs at home; Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes Tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a Court; 10 In various talk th...
Page 491 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Page 356 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire; He asks no .angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 501 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 365 - Great wits are sure to madness near allied; And thin partitions do their bounds divide: Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Page 153 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. « Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Page 156 - Planets through the boundless Sky. Some less refin'd, beneath the Moon's pale Light Pursue the Stars that shoot athwart the Night ; Or suck the Mists in grosser Air below, Or dip their Pinions in the painted Bow, Or brew fierce Tempests on the wintry Main, Or o'er the Glebe distil the kindly Rain.
Page 463 - If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way!
Page 47 - Fired at first sight with what the muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind ; But more...