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... Popes and cardinals , high dignitaries and their secretaries , lawyers and phy- sicians , are found in the roll of ... Pope and a few of our greater poets , and have exercised a most important influ- ence over those who were acquainted ...
... Popes and cardinals , high dignitaries and their secretaries , lawyers and phy- sicians , are found in the roll of ... Pope and a few of our greater poets , and have exercised a most important influ- ence over those who were acquainted ...
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... Pope . In his writings we per- petually discover some elegant epigrammatic turn ; satire so polished , that it cannot offend ; and humour so delicate , that it satisfies the most fastidious . But epitaphs may be considered Pope's ...
... Pope . In his writings we per- petually discover some elegant epigrammatic turn ; satire so polished , that it cannot offend ; and humour so delicate , that it satisfies the most fastidious . But epitaphs may be considered Pope's ...
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... Pope's epitaphs display or fall short of the requirements of this style of composition ? First , with regard to the name of the dead . His inscrip- tions have been satirically called " Epitaphs to be let , " because he constantly omits ...
... Pope's epitaphs display or fall short of the requirements of this style of composition ? First , with regard to the name of the dead . His inscrip- tions have been satirically called " Epitaphs to be let , " because he constantly omits ...
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... Pope must tell what Harcourt cannot speak . Oh ! let thy once - lov'd friend inscribe thy stone , And with a father's sorrows mix his own . Pope's finest epitaph , because the noblest memorial of God - given intellect in the fewest ...
... Pope must tell what Harcourt cannot speak . Oh ! let thy once - lov'd friend inscribe thy stone , And with a father's sorrows mix his own . Pope's finest epitaph , because the noblest memorial of God - given intellect in the fewest ...
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... Popes and cardinals , high dignitaries and their secretaries , lawyers and phy- sicians , are found in the roll of ... Pope and a few of our greater poets , and have exercised a most important influ- ence over those who were acquainted ...
... Popes and cardinals , high dignitaries and their secretaries , lawyers and phy- sicians , are found in the roll of ... Pope and a few of our greater poets , and have exercised a most important influ- ence over those who were acquainted ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Aaron Hill afterwards Ambrose Philips Anacreon beauty Ben Jonson Bishop blest Book born breast breath celebrated character charms Cupid dead dear death Delitiæ Delitiarum died distich doth Duke Dunciad Earl edition elegant English epigrammatic Epigrammatists epitaph eyes fair fame fate flourished B.C. following epigram Foundling Hospital Fugitive Pieces Gentleman's Magazine give grace grave Greek Anthology Greek epigram hath heart heaven honour Horace Walpole inscription Jacobs John Johnson King Lady Latin lines live London Lord lovers Martial Meleager mind monument mourn Muses ne'er never Nichols Notes and Queries o'er Oxford poet Poetical poetry Pope praise published Queen rose satire says Select Epigrams Shakespeare similar sleep smile soul stanza sweet Tadlow tears tell thee thine Thomas thou thought tomb Translated Venus verses virtue Westminster Westminster School wife William write written wrote
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Página 127 - tis the mind that makes the body rich ; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honour peereth in the meanest habit. What, is the jay more precious than the lark, Because his feathers are more beautiful ? Or is the adder better than the eel, Because his painted skin contents the eye ? O, no, good Kate ; neither art thou the worse For this poor furniture, and mean array.
Página 217 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; Which is as thin of substance as the air ; And more inconstant than the wind...
Página xxxvi - I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun...
Página 142 - This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air : thence I have follow'd it, Or it hath drawn me rather.
Página 305 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Página 460 - But hail, thou goddess sage and holy! Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended.
Página 57 - When to the Sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Página 519 - Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear : — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not ' Good night ' — but in some brighter clime Bid me
Página 137 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Página 20 - Ay me! I fondly dream! Had ye been there, for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore. The Muse herself for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore?