Selected Poems of Alexander PopeCrofts, 1926 - 271 pages |
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... equal steps to rise . Just precepts thus from great examples giv'n , She drew from them what they deriv'd from Heav'n . The gen'rous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire , And taught the world with Reason to admire . -Then Criticism the Muse's ...
... equal steps to rise . Just precepts thus from great examples giv'n , She drew from them what they deriv'd from Heav'n . The gen'rous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire , And taught the world with Reason to admire . -Then Criticism the Muse's ...
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... equal ranks , and fair array , But with th ' occasion and the place comply , Conceal his force , nay seem sometimes to fly . Those oft are stratagems which errors seem , Nor is it Homer nods , but we that dream . Still green with bays ...
... equal ranks , and fair array , But with th ' occasion and the place comply , Conceal his force , nay seem sometimes to fly . Those oft are stratagems which errors seem , Nor is it Homer nods , but we that dream . Still green with bays ...
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... equal syllables alone require , - Tho ' oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join ; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvary'd chimes , With sure returns of ...
... equal syllables alone require , - Tho ' oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join ; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvary'd chimes , With sure returns of ...
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... equal curls , and well conspir'd to deck With shining ringlets the smooth iv'ry neck . Love in these labyrinths his slaves detains , And mighty hearts are held in slender chains . With hairy springes we the birds betray , Slight lines ...
... equal curls , and well conspir'd to deck With shining ringlets the smooth iv'ry neck . Love in these labyrinths his slaves detains , And mighty hearts are held in slender chains . With hairy springes we the birds betray , Slight lines ...
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... their visits to delay , And send the godly in a pet to pray ; A nymph there is , that all thy pow'r disdains , And thousands more in equal mirth maintains . 60 65 But oh ! if e'er thy Gnome could spoil a THE RAPE OF THE LOCK 41.
... their visits to delay , And send the godly in a pet to pray ; A nymph there is , that all thy pow'r disdains , And thousands more in equal mirth maintains . 60 65 But oh ! if e'er thy Gnome could spoil a THE RAPE OF THE LOCK 41.
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ALEXANDER POPE Balaam beauty Belinda blessing blest charms Colley Cibber Court Critics Dæmons divine Duke Dunciad e'er Earl of Burlington ease eighteenth century Epistle Essay on Criticism ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame fate flow'rs Folly fool gen'ral gen'rous genius give glory Gnome grace happy heart Heav'n honour Horace int'rest King knave laugh laws learn'd learned live Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Fanny Lord Hervey mankind mind Moral Essays Muse Nature ne'er never numbers nymph o'er once painted Passion pleas'd pleasure poem Poet poetry Pope Pope's pow'r praise pray'r pride proud Queen rage Reason rhyme rich rise rules Sappho Satire Scriblerus Club Self-love sense shine soul spirit Sylphs taste Thalestris thee things thou thought thro tremble Truth verse Vice Virtue Walpole Warburton Whig whole Wife wise write
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Page 158 - Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies: His wit all see-saw between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis.
Page 76 - As Eastern priests in giddy circles run, And turn their heads to imitate the sun. Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule — Then drop into thyself, and be a fool!
Page 155 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Page 43 - She said ; then raging to Sir Plume repairs, And bids her Beau demand the precious hairs: (Sir Plume of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane...
Page 9 - Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky, Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way; Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!
Page 74 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees. Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 86 - Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
Page 74 - 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 66 - 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 ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 32 - Beam new transient Colours flings, Colours that change whene'er they wave their Wings. Amid the Circle, on the gilded Mast, Superior by the head, was Ariel...