The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeMacmillan and Company, limited, 1895 - 505 pages |
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Page xi
... whole , regarded as a compromise with opinions formerly elevated to the place of principles . The result was inevitable , that the moral influence of the clergy had fallen from its original height . The Universities throughout the first ...
... whole , regarded as a compromise with opinions formerly elevated to the place of principles . The result was inevitable , that the moral influence of the clergy had fallen from its original height . The Universities throughout the first ...
Page xxvii
... whole by the wellknown dedication to Congreve . The translation of the Odyssey occupied Pope and his con- ductors from 1723 to ' 5 , by which latter year the whole work ( including the Batrachomyomachia by Parnell ) had been absolved ...
... whole by the wellknown dedication to Congreve . The translation of the Odyssey occupied Pope and his con- ductors from 1723 to ' 5 , by which latter year the whole work ( including the Batrachomyomachia by Parnell ) had been absolved ...
Page xxxvi
... whole tribe of poetasters whose names the Dunciad was afterwards to preserve , nailed to the post by quotations from their own works . The chief , or at all events , the tenderest victim was Ambrose Phillips , who resorted to the ...
... whole tribe of poetasters whose names the Dunciad was afterwards to preserve , nailed to the post by quotations from their own works . The chief , or at all events , the tenderest victim was Ambrose Phillips , who resorted to the ...
Page li
... whole , have departed more frequently from the ordinary rule as to the position of the cæsura in the verse . The ear is delighted after listening to a page of Pope ; an entire poem is apt to weary by the regularity of the cadence ...
... whole , have departed more frequently from the ordinary rule as to the position of the cæsura in the verse . The ear is delighted after listening to a page of Pope ; an entire poem is apt to weary by the regularity of the cadence ...
Page liii
... whole care and time of any particular person should be sacrificed to its entertainment . Therefore I cannot but believe that writers and readers are under equal obligations , for as much fame , or pleasure , as each affords the other ...
... whole care and time of any particular person should be sacrificed to its entertainment . Therefore I cannot but believe that writers and readers are under equal obligations , for as much fame , or pleasure , as each affords the other ...
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Page lv - ch. xxxv. 7.—'The parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: In the habitations where dragons lay, shall be grass, and reeds, and rushes.' Ch. Iv. 13.—'Instead of the thorn shall come up the firtree, and instead of the briar shall come up the myrtle-tree.
Page 165 - To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; 110 But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. IV. Go, wiser thou ! and, in thy scale of sense, Weigh thy Opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fancy'st such, i
Page 247 - Like Cato, give his little Senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; 210 While Wits and Templars ev'ry sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise: Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if ATTIC us
Page 197 - me bound, Or think Thee Lord alone of Man, When thousand Worlds are round : Let not this weak, unknowing hand 25 Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge thy Foe. If I am right, thy grace impart, If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way.
Page 168 - And hound sagacious on the tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that fills the Flood, To that which warbles thro' the vernal wood: The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
Page 197 - Save me alike from foolish Pride, Or impious Discontent, At aught thy Wisdom has deny'd, 35 Or aught thy Goodness lent. Teach me to feel another's Woe, To hide the Fault I see; That Mercy I to others show, That Mercy show to me. 40 Mean tho
Page 165 - And" now a bubble burst, and now a world. 90 Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar ; Wait the great teacher Death ; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that Hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast
Page 170 - Know thy own point : This kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. Submit.—In this, or any other sphere, 285 Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour 3 . All Nature is but Art, unknown to
Page 27 - Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. 300 As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit. For works may have more wit than does 'em good, As bodies perish thro' excess of blood. Others for Language all their care
Page 26 - Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. In every work regard the writer's End, Since none can compass more than they intend ; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in