The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe, 4. köide1847 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 3
... poetry bid fairest to succeed at present , which deliver doctrines , not display events . Of this sort is didactic and descriptive poetry . Accordingly , the moderns have produced many excellent pieces of this kind . We may mention the ...
... poetry bid fairest to succeed at present , which deliver doctrines , not display events . Of this sort is didactic and descriptive poetry . Accordingly , the moderns have produced many excellent pieces of this kind . We may mention the ...
Page 12
... poet , " The worker from the work distinct was known . " Essay on Man , Ep . iii . ver . 229 . It must also be a matter of surprise to those who have perused this poem in the same spirit in which it was written , to find the author ...
... poet , " The worker from the work distinct was known . " Essay on Man , Ep . iii . ver . 229 . It must also be a matter of surprise to those who have perused this poem in the same spirit in which it was written , to find the author ...
Page 26
... Poet's modest and sober Introduction in which he truly observes , that no wisdom less than omni- scient " Can tell why Heav'n has made us as we are . " Yet though we be unable to discover the particular reasons for this mode of our ...
... Poet's modest and sober Introduction in which he truly observes , that no wisdom less than omni- scient " Can tell why Heav'n has made us as we are . " Yet though we be unable to discover the particular reasons for this mode of our ...
Page 30
... Poet ; you may reasonably , if you please , receive much comfort from the HOPE of a happy futurity ; a hope implanted in the human breast by God himself for this very purpose , as an earnest of that bliss , which , always flying from us ...
... Poet ; you may reasonably , if you please , receive much comfort from the HOPE of a happy futurity ; a hope implanted in the human breast by God himself for this very purpose , as an earnest of that bliss , which , always flying from us ...
Page 33
... poetry by an antithesis , throws occasionally his ridicule on those heavenly spirits . The Indian , says the Poet , contents himself without any thing of that flame , which devours at the same time that it nourisheth . " Comm . p . 77 ...
... poetry by an antithesis , throws occasionally his ridicule on those heavenly spirits . The Indian , says the Poet , contents himself without any thing of that flame , which devours at the same time that it nourisheth . " Comm . p . 77 ...
Common terms and phrases
absurd Addison admirable alludes avarice Balaam beauty Ben Jonson better Boileau Bolingbroke Cæsar cause character Cicero COMMENTARY court divine doctrine Dryden Duchess of Marlborough Duke Dunciad edition elegant Epistle equal Essay evil expression folly fool genius give grace happiness hath Heaven honour Horace human imitation Julius Cæsar King knave lines live Lord Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke Lord Burlington Lucretius malè mankind manner mind moral Muse Nature never NOTES numbers object observed opinion original passage perfect philosopher Pindar Plato pleasure poem Poet Poet's poetry Pope Pope's praise pride principle quæ Quid reason Religion Riches ridicule ruling passion Sappho satire says Self-love sense soul spirit sublime supposed Swift taste thee things thou thought translation true truth verse vice virtue Voltaire Warburton Warton whole WILLIAM WARBURTON words write
Popular passages
Page 425 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 48 - 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 340 - Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer...
Page 284 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Page 23 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze!
Page 34 - In Pride, in reas'ning Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Page 97 - Praise ye him, sun and moon : Praise him, all ye stars of light. Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, And ye waters that be above the heavens. Let them praise the name of the LORD: For he commanded, and they were created.
Page 54 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 30 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 43 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam : Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through 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?