The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeMacmillan and Company, limited, 1893 - 505 pages |
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Page ix
... literary history coinciding with the literary life of Pope is spoken of as our Augustan age . Were this transfer of title intended to imply the existence during the period in question of any royal patronage of letters such as the first ...
... literary history coinciding with the literary life of Pope is spoken of as our Augustan age . Were this transfer of title intended to imply the existence during the period in question of any royal patronage of letters such as the first ...
Page x
... literary henchmen in the coin dearest to the frugal souls of literary men , and cheapest to the condescending great , a social familiarity at times facilitated by the bottle . Their literary assailants they were eager to imprison and ...
... literary henchmen in the coin dearest to the frugal souls of literary men , and cheapest to the condescending great , a social familiarity at times facilitated by the bottle . Their literary assailants they were eager to imprison and ...
Page xii
... literary hero of these times will therefore not be a mind intent upon pondering and revealing the depths of human nature ; nor a poet who from out of the turmoil of political conflicts or social distractions betakes himself into the ...
... literary hero of these times will therefore not be a mind intent upon pondering and revealing the depths of human nature ; nor a poet who from out of the turmoil of political conflicts or social distractions betakes himself into the ...
Page xiii
... literary counter - coterie . Just as the world of politics in this age was limited to a very small numerical proportion of the nation whose affairs it swayed , so the world of literature , extremely confined in comparison to that of ...
... literary counter - coterie . Just as the world of politics in this age was limited to a very small numerical proportion of the nation whose affairs it swayed , so the world of literature , extremely confined in comparison to that of ...
Page xiv
... literary world may help to account for the importance with which its members invested even their most trivial disputes . But few escaped the taint of their age , and nothing in the life of Addison strikes his contemporaries as so ...
... literary world may help to account for the importance with which its members invested even their most trivial disputes . But few escaped the taint of their age , and nothing in the life of Addison strikes his contemporaries as so ...
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Page 200 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 45 - Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Page 201 - Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man. Placed 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; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err...
Page 277 - 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 46 - Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, " Sister spirit, come away ! " What is this absorbs me quite ? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my...
Page 58 - But most by numbers judge a poet's song; And smooth or rough, with them is right or wrong: In the bright Muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire...
Page 200 - 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 92 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage, Commanding tears to stream through every age; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept, And foes to virtue wonder'd how they wept.
Page 215 - In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity: All must be false that thwart this one great end ; And all of God, that bless mankind, or mend. 310 Man, like the gen'rous vine, supported lives; The strength he gains is from th
Page 227 - 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.