The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life of the AuthorCrosby, Nichols, Lee, 1860 - 578 pages |
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Page ix
... ancients their pattern . The most considerable genius appears in the famous Tasso , and our Spenser . Tasso , in his Aminta , as far excelled all pastoral writers , a in his Gierusalemme , he has outdone the epic poets of his own ...
... ancients their pattern . The most considerable genius appears in the famous Tasso , and our Spenser . Tasso , in his Aminta , as far excelled all pastoral writers , a in his Gierusalemme , he has outdone the epic poets of his own ...
Page xxv
... ancient and modern critics ever thought . " The Iliad is so far from being a wild paradise , that it is the most regular garden , and laid out with more symmetry , than any ever was . Every thing therein is not only in the place it ...
... ancient and modern critics ever thought . " The Iliad is so far from being a wild paradise , that it is the most regular garden , and laid out with more symmetry , than any ever was . Every thing therein is not only in the place it ...
Page xxviii
... ancient purity : to which our poet made this modest reply , That , not having attempted any thing in the drama , it might in him be deemed too much presumption . To which he was answered , That this did not require great knowledge of ...
... ancient purity : to which our poet made this modest reply , That , not having attempted any thing in the drama , it might in him be deemed too much presumption . To which he was answered , That this did not require great knowledge of ...
Page 51
... plant shall aid , From storm a shelter , and from heat a shade . 13 ( 1 ) Isa xi . ver 1. ( 2 ) Ch . xlv . ver 8. ( 3 ) Ch . 11V gr . 4 . All crimes shall cease , and ancient frauds shall fæ ̈ ( 51 ) Messiah, A sacred Eclogue.
... plant shall aid , From storm a shelter , and from heat a shade . 13 ( 1 ) Isa xi . ver 1. ( 2 ) Ch . xlv . ver 8. ( 3 ) Ch . 11V gr . 4 . All crimes shall cease , and ancient frauds shall fæ ̈ ( 51 ) Messiah, A sacred Eclogue.
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... ancient frauds shall fæ ̈ · Returning Justice ' lift aloft her scale ; Peace o'er the world her olive wand , extend , 25 30 35 And white - robed Innocence from heaven descend . 20 Swift fly the years , and rise the expected mon ! Oh ...
... ancient frauds shall fæ ̈ · Returning Justice ' lift aloft her scale ; Peace o'er the world her olive wand , extend , 25 30 35 And white - robed Innocence from heaven descend . 20 Swift fly the years , and rise the expected mon ! Oh ...
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