The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, 1. köideJ. Nichol, 1856 |
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... Belinda , tuos violare capillos ; Sed juvat , hoc precibus me tribuisse tuis . ' TO MRS ARABELLA FERMOR . MART . MADAM , —It will be in vain to deny that I have some regard for this piece , since I dedicate it to you . Yet you may bear ...
... Belinda , tuos violare capillos ; Sed juvat , hoc precibus me tribuisse tuis . ' TO MRS ARABELLA FERMOR . MART . MADAM , —It will be in vain to deny that I have some regard for this piece , since I dedicate it to you . Yet you may bear ...
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... Belinda , as it is now managed , resembles you in nothing but in beauty . If this poem had as many graces as there are in your person , or in your mind , yet I could never hope it should pass through the world half so uncensured as you ...
... Belinda , as it is now managed , resembles you in nothing but in beauty . If this poem had as many graces as there are in your person , or in your mind , yet I could never hope it should pass through the world half so uncensured as you ...
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... Belinda still her downy pillow press'd , Her guardian Sylph1 prolong'd the balmy rest : ' Twas he had summon'd to her silent bed The morning - dream that hover'd o'er her head , A youth more glittering than a birth - night beau , ( That ...
... Belinda still her downy pillow press'd , Her guardian Sylph1 prolong'd the balmy rest : ' Twas he had summon'd to her silent bed The morning - dream that hover'd o'er her head , A youth more glittering than a birth - night beau , ( That ...
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... Belinda , if report say true , Thy eyes first open'd on a billet - doux ; Wounds , charms , and ardours , were no sooner read , But all the vision vanish'd from thy head . And now , unveil'd , the toilet stands display'd , Each silver ...
... Belinda , if report say true , Thy eyes first open'd on a billet - doux ; Wounds , charms , and ardours , were no sooner read , But all the vision vanish'd from thy head . And now , unveil'd , the toilet stands display'd , Each silver ...
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... Belinda smiled , and all the world was gay . All but the Sylph - with careful thoughts oppress'd , The impending woe sat heavy on his breast . He summons straight his denizens of air ; The lucid squadrons round the sails repair ; Soft o ...
... Belinda smiled , and all the world was gay . All but the Sylph - with careful thoughts oppress'd , The impending woe sat heavy on his breast . He summons straight his denizens of air ; The lucid squadrons round the sails repair ; Soft o ...
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ALEXANDER POPE ancient Atalantis beauty behold Belinda bless'd blest breast breath bright charms courser court cries critics crown'd Curll Cynthus Dunciad e'er earth ease Eclogues envy EPISTLE eternal Eurydice eyes fair fame fate fire flames flowers fools glory Gnome grace groves hair happy head heart Heaven honour kings knave laws learn'd learning live lock Lord Lord Bolingbroke maid mankind mind mortal Muse Muse's Nature ne'er never numbers nymph o'er once painted passion peace plain pleased poem poet Pope Pope's praise pride proud rage rhyme rise river Loddon Rosicrucian round sacred satire sense shade shine sighs silver sing skies smile soft soul spleen spring streams Sylphs tears Thalestris thee Theocritus things thou thought trembling Umbriel VARIATIONS verse virtue WESTMINSTER ABBEY winds wings write youth
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Page 221 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Page 40 - 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...
Page 29 - Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose, Now one in verse makes many more in prose. 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 179 - Great in the earth as in th' ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze. Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent. Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 171 - Tis ours to trace him only in our own. He, who through vast immensity can pierce, See worlds on worlds compose one universe, Observe how system into system runs, What other planets circle other suns, What varied being peoples every star, May tell why Heaven has made us as we are.
Page 212 - 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 174 - Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Page 173 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 73 - She said ; then raging to Sir Plume repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs : (Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane,) With earnest eyes, and round, unthinking face, He first the snuff-box open'd, then the case, And thus broke out — -"My lord, why, what the devil!
Page 213 - Oh! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale? When statesmen, heroes, kings, in dust repose, Whose sons shall blush their fathers -were thy foes, Shall then this verse to future age pretend Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend?