The Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem, 4. köideA. J. Valpy, 1835 |
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... to Esop , though not inserted in the collection which bears his name . ' His authority is Babrius , probably himself too late to be an authority : but Warton , from his Once on a time , so runs the fable , 14 WORKS OF POPE .
... to Esop , though not inserted in the collection which bears his name . ' His authority is Babrius , probably himself too late to be an authority : but Warton , from his Once on a time , so runs the fable , 14 WORKS OF POPE .
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... bear , A brighter Phoebus Phaon might appear : Would you with ivy wreathe your flowing hair , 25 Not Bacchus ' self with Phaon could compare : Yet Phoebus loved , and Bacchus felt the flame ; One Daphne warm'd , and one the Cretan dame ...
... bear , A brighter Phoebus Phaon might appear : Would you with ivy wreathe your flowing hair , 25 Not Bacchus ' self with Phaon could compare : Yet Phoebus loved , and Bacchus felt the flame ; One Daphne warm'd , and one the Cretan dame ...
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... bear ; The flying winds have lost them all in air ! Or when , alas ! shall more auspicious gales To these fond eyes restore thy welcome sails ? If you return , ah , why these long delays ? Poor Sappho dies while careless Phaon stays . O ...
... bear ; The flying winds have lost them all in air ! Or when , alas ! shall more auspicious gales To these fond eyes restore thy welcome sails ? If you return , ah , why these long delays ? Poor Sappho dies while careless Phaon stays . O ...
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... bear ; Let some kind nurse supply a mother's care ; And to his mother let him oft be led , Sport in her shades , and in her shades be fed : Teach him , when first his infant voice shall frame Imperfect words , and lisp his mother's name ...
... bear ; Let some kind nurse supply a mother's care ; And to his mother let him oft be led , Sport in her shades , and in her shades be fed : Teach him , when first his infant voice shall frame Imperfect words , and lisp his mother's name ...
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... bear , Or more improved the vegetable care . To her the shady grove , the flowery field , 5 The streams and fountains no delights could vield : ' Twas all her joy the ripening fruits to tend , And see the boughs with happy burdens bend ...
... bear , Or more improved the vegetable care . To her the shady grove , the flowery field , 5 The streams and fountains no delights could vield : ' Twas all her joy the ripening fruits to tend , And see the boughs with happy burdens bend ...
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Addison Ambrose Philips bard beauty bless bless'd bliss bosom breast charms countess of Suffolk court cried dame dear delight divine Dryope Dunciad e'er ease envy EPISTLE ev'n eyes fair fame fate fire flame flowery fool gentle grace grave Gulliver hand haste hear heart Heaven Homer honest honor Houyhnhnm husband Iliad join'd joys kind KIT-CAT CLUB knight lady learn'd LEMUEL GULLIVER live lord lord Harvey lyre Muse ne'er numbers nymph o'er once Ovid pass'd Phaon pleased pleasure poem poet Pope Pope's praise pride PROLOGUE quoth rage rise Sappho satire scene shade shine Siege of Damascus sigh sing smiles soft song soul spouse squire sung sure sweet Swift tears tell tender thee thine thou thought Tom D'Urfey translation tree Twas verse Vertumnus vex'd virgin virtue Warton wife wise wives woman youth
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Page 11 - Send for him up; take no excuse.' The toil, the danger of the seas, Great ministers ne'er think of these; Or, let it cost five hundred pound, No matter where the money's found, It is but so much more in debt, And that they ne'er consider'd yet. ' Good Mr. Dean, go change your gown, Let my lord know you're come to town.
Page 98 - And sensible soft melancholy. "Has she no faults then, (Envy says) Sir?" Yes, she has one, I must aver; When all the world conspires to praise her, The woman's deaf, and does not hear.
Page 80 - A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws, What bosom beats not in his country's cause ? Who sees him act, but envies every deed ? Who hears him groan, and does not wish to bleed?
Page 97 - Mournful cypress, verdant willow, Gilding my Aurelia's brows, Morpheus hovering o'er my pillow, Hear me pay my dying vows.
Page 9 - I'VE often wish'd that I had clear For life, six hundred pounds a year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end, A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land, set out to plant a wood.
Page 13 - Or gravely try to read the lines Writ underneath the country signs; Or, ' Have you nothing new to-day ' From Pope, from Parnell, or from Gay ?' Such tattle often entertains My lord and me as far as Staines, As once a week we travel down To Windsor, and again to town, Where all that passes inter nos Might be proclaim'd at Charing-cross.
Page 101 - ... In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow ; In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes Of hanging mountains, and of sloping greens ; Joy lives not here, to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where Wortley casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre, the...
Page 60 - Oh lasting as those colours may they shine, Free as thy stroke, yet faultless as thy line ; New graces yearly like thy works display, Soft without weakness, without glaring gay ; Led by some rule, that guides, but not constrains ; And finish'd more...
Page 64 - The shining robes, rich jewels, beds of state, And, to complete her bliss, a Fool for Mate. She glares in Balls, front Boxes, and the Ring, A vain, unquiet, glitt'ring, wretched Thing! Pride, Pomp, and State but reach her outward part; She sighs, and is no Duchess at her heart.
Page 49 - SEE the wild waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad sepulchre appears ! With nodding arches, broken temples spread, The very tombs now vanish'd like their dead!