The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Carefully Collated and Compared with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and CommentatorsEditor, and sold, 1778 |
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... fix'd , the bright eternal temple ftands , Its profpect an unbounded view commands : Say , wond'rous youth , what column wilt thou chufe , What laurel'd arch for thy triumphant Muse ? Tho ' each great ancient court thee to his fhrine ...
... fix'd , the bright eternal temple ftands , Its profpect an unbounded view commands : Say , wond'rous youth , what column wilt thou chufe , What laurel'd arch for thy triumphant Muse ? Tho ' each great ancient court thee to his fhrine ...
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... fix'd his word , his faving pow'r remains ; Thy realm for ever lafts , thy own Messiah reigns ! Ch , lx . ver . 4 . + Ch . Ix . ver . 3 . Ch . lx . ver . 6 . Ch . lx . ver . 19 , 20 . § Ch . li . ver . vi . and ch . liv . ver . 10 ...
... fix'd his word , his faving pow'r remains ; Thy realm for ever lafts , thy own Messiah reigns ! Ch , lx . ver . 4 . + Ch . Ix . ver . 3 . Ch . lx . ver . 6 . Ch . lx . ver . 19 , 20 . § Ch . li . ver . vi . and ch . liv . ver . 10 ...
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... fix'd the limits fit , And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending wit .. As on the land while here the Ocean gains , $ 5 In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains ; Thus in the foul while memory prevails , The folid pow'r of ...
... fix'd the limits fit , And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending wit .. As on the land while here the Ocean gains , $ 5 In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains ; Thus in the foul while memory prevails , The folid pow'r of ...
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... fix'd on her alone . On her white breaft a fparkling Crofs fhe wore , Which Jews might kifs , and Infidels adore . Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose , Quick as her eyes , and as unfix'd as those : Favours to none , to all fhe ...
... fix'd on her alone . On her white breaft a fparkling Crofs fhe wore , Which Jews might kifs , and Infidels adore . Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose , Quick as her eyes , and as unfix'd as those : Favours to none , to all fhe ...
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... fix'd , the wretch fhall feel The giddy motion of the whirling Mill , In fumes of burning Chocolate fhall glow , And tremble at the sea that froths below ! 135 VOL . I. He He spoke ; the fpirits from the fails descend ; The RAPE of the ...
... fix'd , the wretch fhall feel The giddy motion of the whirling Mill , In fumes of burning Chocolate fhall glow , And tremble at the sea that froths below ! 135 VOL . I. He He spoke ; the fpirits from the fails descend ; The RAPE of the ...
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Página 57 - 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.
Página 256 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam : Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line...
Página 337 - To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the column, or the arch to bend, To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot.
Página 101 - What boots the regal circle on his head, His giant limbs, in state unwieldy spread; That long behind he trails his pompous robe, And, of all monarchs, only grasps the globe? The baron now his diamonds pours apace; Th...
Página 288 - Pursues that chain which links th' immense design, Joins heav'n and earth, and mortal and divine; Sees, that no being any bliss can know, But touches some above, and some below; Learns, from this union of the rising whole, The first, last purpose of the human soul; And knows where faith, law, morals, all began, All end, in love of God, and love of man.
Página 294 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe.
Página 284 - Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go ! and pretend your family is young, Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. Look next on greatness : say where greatness lies, Where, but among the heroes and the wise...
Página 92 - And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transform'd to combs, the speckled and the white.
Página 279 - Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? • Where grows ? — where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil...
Página 330 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!