The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly, Volumen21835 |
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... is too antique for the English taste , and too Grecian for the banks of the Thames . Pan also is a lover in whose passion we have not learned to sympathise . Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves , When 12 WORKS OF POPE .
... is too antique for the English taste , and too Grecian for the banks of the Thames . Pan also is a lover in whose passion we have not learned to sympathise . Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves , When 12 WORKS OF POPE .
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... passion still , Might change Olympus for a nobler hill . 230 Happy the man whom this bright court ap- proves , 235 His sovereign favors , and his country loves : Happy next him , who to these shades retires , Whom nature charms , and ...
... passion still , Might change Olympus for a nobler hill . 230 Happy the man whom this bright court ap- proves , 235 His sovereign favors , and his country loves : Happy next him , who to these shades retires , Whom nature charms , and ...
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... passion , drives them to another shelter , or scatters them into dust and air . The natural curiosity to know something of the habits , manners , and personal appearance , of celebrated individuals finds but slight indulgence in the ...
... passion , drives them to another shelter , or scatters them into dust and air . The natural curiosity to know something of the habits , manners , and personal appearance , of celebrated individuals finds but slight indulgence in the ...
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... passion under the pretext of satirising vice , much may be forgiven to a woman , whose education placed her in the midst of this hazardous fami- liarity with evil . It is also to be remembered , that those letters were probably never ...
... passion under the pretext of satirising vice , much may be forgiven to a woman , whose education placed her in the midst of this hazardous fami- liarity with evil . It is also to be remembered , that those letters were probably never ...
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... passion . With the exception of the Elegy on an Unfortunate Lady , ' it is the only instance in which he thus let loose his sensibilities ; and it is equally the only instance in which he changed the strict model of his lan- guage for ...
... passion . With the exception of the Elegy on an Unfortunate Lady , ' it is the only instance in which he thus let loose his sensibilities ; and it is equally the only instance in which he changed the strict model of his lan- guage for ...
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Página 72 - whispers through the trees ;' If crystal streams ' with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep;' Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Página 196 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Página 70 - Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face of nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay ; But true expression, like th' unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
Página 61 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchang'd, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides, Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...
Página 67 - 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.
Página 110 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;) " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace " Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : " One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead— " And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Página 180 - They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge. No place is sacred, not the church is free, Ev'n Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me: Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me, just at dinner-time.
Página 73 - 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' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 81 - Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do ; Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Página 69 - The manners, passions, unities, what not? All which, exact to rule, were brought about, Were but a combat in the lists left out. "What! leave the combat out?" exclaims the knight; Yes, or we must renounce the Stagirite. "Not so, by Heaven" (he answers in a rage), "Knights, squires, and steeds, must enter on the stage.