The Works of Alexander Pope, 4. köideJ.F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... is clear ; You only coarsely rail , or darkly sneer : His style is elegant , his diction pure , Whilst none thy crabbed numbers can endure , Hard as thy heart , and as thy birth obscure . 5 If he has thorns , they all on roses.
... is clear ; You only coarsely rail , or darkly sneer : His style is elegant , his diction pure , Whilst none thy crabbed numbers can endure , Hard as thy heart , and as thy birth obscure . 5 If he has thorns , they all on roses.
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... numbers came . 125 NOTES . in his tenth epistle , has done the same in giving many amusing particulars of his father ... number of speeches from Ogilby's translation , tacked together with verses of his own . He had the address to ...
... numbers came . 125 NOTES . in his tenth epistle , has done the same in giving many amusing particulars of his father ... number of speeches from Ogilby's translation , tacked together with verses of his own . He had the address to ...
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... numbers , ] From Ovid , 66 Sponte sua carmen numeros veniebat ad aptos , Et quod conabar scribere , versus erat . " Ver . 130. no father disobey'd . ] When Mr. Pope was yet a child , his father , though no Poet , would set him to make ...
... numbers , ] From Ovid , 66 Sponte sua carmen numeros veniebat ad aptos , Et quod conabar scribere , versus erat . " Ver . 130. no father disobey'd . ] When Mr. Pope was yet a child , his father , though no Poet , would set him to make ...
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... numbers ; who could take offence While pure Description held the place of Sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flow'ry theme , A painted mistress , or a purling stream . NOTES . 150 and peculiarly appropriated , with much art , to the ...
... numbers ; who could take offence While pure Description held the place of Sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flow'ry theme , A painted mistress , or a purling stream . NOTES . 150 and peculiarly appropriated , with much art , to the ...
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... numbers , under their proper heads . But the growing splendour of his own works ' so eclipsed the faint efforts of this opposition , that he trusted to its own weakness and malignity for the justice due unto it . About this time , Mr ...
... numbers , under their proper heads . But the growing splendour of his own works ' so eclipsed the faint efforts of this opposition , that he trusted to its own weakness and malignity for the justice due unto it . About this time , Mr ...
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Page 13 - twas when he knew no better. Dare you refuse him? Curll invites to dine, He'll write a. Journal, or he'll turn divine.' Bless me ! a packet - ' 'Tis a stranger sues, A Virgin Tragedy, an Orphan Muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage!' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Page 32 - Peace to all such ! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone. Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 32 - 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 408 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.
Page 337 - Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year, most part, deform'd With dripping rains, or withered by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies, And fields without a flower, for warmer France With all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden fruitage, and her myrtle bowers.
Page 37 - Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son; Got, while his soul did huddled notions try; And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy.
Page 77 - Rolls o'er my grotto, and but sooths my sleep. There, my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place. There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul : And he, whose lightning pierc'd th...
Page 45 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Page 53 - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Page 11 - And curses Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What Drop or Nostrum can this plague remove?