The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, 1. köideJ. Gladding, 1836 |
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... ne'er oblig'd : Like Cato give his little senate laws , And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and Templars ev'ry sentence raise , And wonder with a foolish face of praise ; Who but must laugh , if such a man there be ! Who ...
... ne'er oblig'd : Like Cato give his little senate laws , And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and Templars ev'ry sentence raise , And wonder with a foolish face of praise ; Who but must laugh , if such a man there be ! Who ...
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... ne'er transgress its end : Let it be seldom , and compell'd by need ; And have , at least , their precedent to plead . The critic else proceeds without remorse , Seizes your fame , and puts his laws in force . I know there are , to ...
... ne'er transgress its end : Let it be seldom , and compell'd by need ; And have , at least , their precedent to plead . The critic else proceeds without remorse , Seizes your fame , and puts his laws in force . I know there are , to ...
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... er the vales , and seem to tread the sky ! The eternal snows appear already pass'd , And the first clouds and ... ne'er was , nor is , nor e'er shall be . In every work regard the writer's end , Since none can compass more than ...
... er the vales , and seem to tread the sky ! The eternal snows appear already pass'd , And the first clouds and ... ne'er was , nor is , nor e'er shall be . In every work regard the writer's end , Since none can compass more than ...
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... ne'er contain .'- ' Then build a new , or act it on a plain . ' Thus critics of less judgment than caprice , Curious , not knowing , not exact , but nice , Form short ideas ; and offend in arts ( As most in manners ) by a love to parts ...
... ne'er contain .'- ' Then build a new , or act it on a plain . ' Thus critics of less judgment than caprice , Curious , not knowing , not exact , but nice , Form short ideas ; and offend in arts ( As most in manners ) by a love to parts ...
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... er the unbending corn , and skims along the main . Hear how Timotheus ' varied lays surprise , And bid alternate ... ne'er advance a judginent of their own , But catch the spreading notion of the town ; 410 They reason and conclude ...
... er the unbending corn , and skims along the main . Hear how Timotheus ' varied lays surprise , And bid alternate ... ne'er advance a judginent of their own , But catch the spreading notion of the town ; 410 They reason and conclude ...
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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.