The poetical works of Alexander Pope, 2. köideCassell, Petter and Galpin, 1866 |
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Ambrose Philips ANTISTROPHE Balaam bards beauty behold bids bless'd blessing bliss breast breath Cæsar charms Costive Countess of Suffolk cried critics dame dear death e'en e'er ease envy EPIGRAM EPISTLE ESSAY ON CRITICISM Eurydice Eustace Budgell eyes fair faith fame fate fire fix'd flame fool gentle give grace Gulliver's Travels happiness hate hear heart Heaven honour Houyhnhnm Inigo Jones join'd king knave lady learn'd learning live lord man's mankind mind moral Muse nature nature's ne'er never night numbers o'er once Ovid pain passion pleas'd pleasure poets Pope praise pride rage reason rise rules sage Sappho seem'd self-love SEMICHORUS sense shade shine skies SMIL soft soul spouse squire STEPHEN DUCK taste thee things thou thought true Twas verse virtue whate'er whole wife wise youth
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Page 84 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 46 - Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd 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 46 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all' things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world...
Page 17 - 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...
Page 16 - 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 unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find 'the cooling western breeze...
Page 83 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heaven pursue.
Page 6 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear...
Page 15 - Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Page 75 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Page 55 - 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.