The poetical works of Alexander PopeCrissy & Markley., 1865 |
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Page vii
... learned for a few months under a fourth priest . This was all the teaching I ever had ; and God knows , it extended a very little way . " The ruling passion , to use a favourite expression of his own , developed itself within him at a ...
... learned for a few months under a fourth priest . This was all the teaching I ever had ; and God knows , it extended a very little way . " The ruling passion , to use a favourite expression of his own , developed itself within him at a ...
Page viii
... learned versification wholly from Dryden's works , who had improved it much beyond any of our former poets , and would probably have brought it to its perfection , had he not been unhappily obliged to write so often in haste . " The ...
... learned versification wholly from Dryden's works , who had improved it much beyond any of our former poets , and would probably have brought it to its perfection , had he not been unhappily obliged to write so often in haste . " The ...
Page ix
... learned that un- pleasantly sarcastic and slighting manner of speaking of the fair sex of which he never got rid , and which sits so ill on the little invalid . And these intimacies , be it remembered , were formed long before he ...
... learned that un- pleasantly sarcastic and slighting manner of speaking of the fair sex of which he never got rid , and which sits so ill on the little invalid . And these intimacies , be it remembered , were formed long before he ...
Page xiv
... learned , the witty , the gay , the fair - the centre of a group of friends the most faithful , the most disinterested , the least exacting and jealous , that universal literature offers for our admiration , and all of them with a ...
... learned , the witty , the gay , the fair - the centre of a group of friends the most faithful , the most disinterested , the least exacting and jealous , that universal literature offers for our admiration , and all of them with a ...
Page xix
... learned , it required genius to invent and perfect it . The greatest defect to modern ears in Pope's verse is the monotony of the pauses and the too frequent finishing of the sense at the close of every second line . His rhymes are ...
... learned , it required genius to invent and perfect it . The greatest defect to modern ears in Pope's verse is the monotony of the pauses and the too frequent finishing of the sense at the close of every second line . His rhymes are ...
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Page 203 - 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 320 - Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying...
Page 16 - See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high, progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing.
Page 18 - Chaos of Thought and Passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; 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 22 - 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 13 - 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 202 - Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
Page 197 - 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. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives ; To enjoy is to obey.
Page 195 - Rise, crown'd with light, imperial Salem, rise ! Exalt thy towery head, and lift thy eyes ! See, a long race thy spacious courts adorn ; See future sons, and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks on every side arise, Demanding life, impatient for the skies...
Page 197 - FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. 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.