The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeD. Appleton, 1869 - 485 pages |
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... sure , held to everything , but still the exhibition is highly curious , and we know not whether to be most pleased or surprised . The " Rape of the Lock " is the most exquisite specimen of filigree work ever invented . It is admirable ...
... sure , held to everything , but still the exhibition is highly curious , and we know not whether to be most pleased or surprised . The " Rape of the Lock " is the most exquisite specimen of filigree work ever invented . It is admirable ...
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... by no means the universal con- cern of the world , but only the affair of idle men who write in their closets , and of idle men who read there . Yet sure , upon the whole , a bad author BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
... by no means the universal con- cern of the world , but only the affair of idle men who write in their closets , and of idle men who read there . Yet sure , upon the whole , a bad author BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
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Alexander Pope Rev. Henry Francis Cary. Yet sure , upon the whole , a bad author deserves better usage than a bad critic ; for a writer's endeavour , for the most part , is to please his readers , and he fails merely through the ...
Alexander Pope Rev. Henry Francis Cary. Yet sure , upon the whole , a bad author deserves better usage than a bad critic ; for a writer's endeavour , for the most part , is to please his readers , and he fails merely through the ...
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... sure to be commended by the best and most knowing , he is as sure of being envied by the worst and most ignorant , which are the majority ; for it is with a fine genius as with a fine fashion , all those are displeased at it who are not ...
... sure to be commended by the best and most knowing , he is as sure of being envied by the worst and most ignorant , which are the majority ; for it is with a fine genius as with a fine fashion , all those are displeased at it who are not ...
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... sure yourself and your own reach to know , How far your genius , taste , and learning go ; Launch not beyond your depth , but be discreet , And mark that point where sense and dulness meet . Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit ...
... sure yourself and your own reach to know , How far your genius , taste , and learning go ; Launch not beyond your depth , but be discreet , And mark that point where sense and dulness meet . Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit ...
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Page 219 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, 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 249 - 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...
Page 223 - 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 293 - Dreading even 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 plaistered posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers' load, On wings of winds came flying...
Page 50 - A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
Page 365 - Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me ; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone.
Page 44 - Hark! they whisper; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?
Page 249 - 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?
Page 96 - Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and sacred be her fame; Before true passion all those views remove, Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love...
Page 292 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.