The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, 1. köideJ. Gladding, 1836 |
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Alexander Pope. own fame as a poet ; that he had quitted the Muses to enter into the business of the public , and that all he spoke was through friendship to Mr. Pope , whom he advised to have a less exalted sense of his own merit . Mr ...
Alexander Pope. own fame as a poet ; that he had quitted the Muses to enter into the business of the public , and that all he spoke was through friendship to Mr. Pope , whom he advised to have a less exalted sense of his own merit . Mr ...
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... and Pope as the most pleasing versifier . - Cibber's Lives . He comes , he comes ! bid every hard preparo The song of triumph , and attend his car . Great Sheffield's muse the long procession heads , And throws xxxvi LIFE OF POPE .
... and Pope as the most pleasing versifier . - Cibber's Lives . He comes , he comes ! bid every hard preparo The song of triumph , and attend his car . Great Sheffield's muse the long procession heads , And throws xxxvi LIFE OF POPE .
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... muse ? Though each great ancient court thee to his shrine , Though ev'ry laurel through the dome be thine , ( From the proud epic down to those that shade The gentler brow of the soft Lesbian maid , ) Go to the good and just , and awful ...
... muse ? Though each great ancient court thee to his shrine , Though ev'ry laurel through the dome be thine , ( From the proud epic down to those that shade The gentler brow of the soft Lesbian maid , ) Go to the good and just , and awful ...
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... muse her sler Till in your native sha So when the nightinga The thrush may chant But charm'd to silenc And all the aërial au Soon as the flocks Two swains , whom Pour'd o'er the whi Fresh as the morn THE -POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER ...
... muse her sler Till in your native sha So when the nightinga The thrush may chant But charm'd to silenc And all the aërial au Soon as the flocks Two swains , whom Pour'd o'er the whi Fresh as the morn THE -POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER ...
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... muse her slender reed inspire , Till in your native shades you tune the lyre . So when the nightingale to rest removes , The thrush may chant to the forsaken greves , But charm'd to silence , listens while she sings , And all the aërial ...
... muse her slender reed inspire , Till in your native shades you tune the lyre . So when the nightingale to rest removes , The thrush may chant to the forsaken greves , But charm'd to silence , listens while she sings , And all the aërial ...
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Page 236 - KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer...
Page 263 - God loves from whole to parts: but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake! The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race...
Page 69 - The world recedes ; it disappears ! Heaven opens on my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring ! Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! O grave, where is thy victory ? O death, where is thy sting...
Page 229 - 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 : Man never Is, but always to be blest ; The soul, uneasy, and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 80 - As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. *Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar.
Page 97 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
Page 76 - A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
Page 241 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 72 - First follow nature and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same : Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art. Art from that fund each just supply provides, Works without show, and without pomp presides; In some fair body thus th...
Page 248 - Thus then to man the voice of nature spake — "Go, from the creatures thy instructions take: Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.