The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Ed. by the Rev. H. F. CaryD. Appleton & Company, 1867 - 485 pages |
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... natural talent , seldom much esteemed so long as the possessor of it is living , a puny misshapen and sickly being , unfit for any active employment of life ... nature only dressed by art ; he judged of beauty by fashion ; ALEXANDER POPE ,
... natural talent , seldom much esteemed so long as the possessor of it is living , a puny misshapen and sickly being , unfit for any active employment of life ... nature only dressed by art ; he judged of beauty by fashion ; ALEXANDER POPE ,
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... nature . He lived in the smiles of fortune , and basked in the favour of the great . In his smooth and polished verse , we meet with no prodigies of nature , but with miracles of wit ; the thunders of his pen are whispered flatteries ...
... nature . He lived in the smiles of fortune , and basked in the favour of the great . In his smooth and polished verse , we meet with no prodigies of nature , but with miracles of wit ; the thunders of his pen are whispered flatteries ...
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... nature . The complete character of this poem consists in sim- plicity , brevity , and delicacy ; the two first of which render an eclogue natural , and the last delightful . If we would copy nature , it may be useful to take this idea ...
... nature . The complete character of this poem consists in sim- plicity , brevity , and delicacy ; the two first of which render an eclogue natural , and the last delightful . If we would copy nature , it may be useful to take this idea ...
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... natural way ; but a regard must be had to the subject ; that it contain some particular beauty in itself , and that it be ... nature and simplicity . The subjects of his Idyllia are purely pastoral ; but he is not so exact in his persons ...
... natural way ; but a regard must be had to the subject ; that it contain some particular beauty in itself , and that it be ... nature and simplicity . The subjects of his Idyllia are purely pastoral ; but he is not so exact in his persons ...
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... nature laughs , the groves are fresh and fair , The sun's mild lustre warms the vital air ; If Sylvia smiles , new glories gild the shore , And vanquish'd nature seems to charm no more . STREPHON . In spring the fields , in autumn hills ...
... nature laughs , the groves are fresh and fair , The sun's mild lustre warms the vital air ; If Sylvia smiles , new glories gild the shore , And vanquish'd nature seems to charm no more . STREPHON . In spring the fields , in autumn hills ...
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Page 53 - 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 : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 224 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives...
Page 26 - 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 464 - Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off the ethereal plain ; As Argus
Page 46 - 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 50 - Fired at first sight with what the muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanced, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise!
Page 82 - And hence th' egregious wizard shall foredoom The fate of Louis, and the fall of Rome. Then cease, bright nymph ! to mourn thy ravished hair, Which adds new glory to the shining sphere! Not all the tresses that fair head can boast, Shall draw such envy as the Lock you lost. For after all the murders of your eye, When, after millions slain, yourself shall die; When those fair suns shall set, as set they must, And all those tresses shall be laid in dust, This lock the Muse shall consecrate to fame,...
Page 230 - 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 283 - His gardens next your admiration call, On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Page 277 - Of mimic statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to flatter, left of all his store ! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame ; this lord of useless thousands ends.