The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Ed., with Notes and Introductory MemoirMacmillan and Company, limited, 1893 - 505 páginas |
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... died in the year 1645 , there is nothing beyond a mere conjecture to justify the application of an intrinsically un- interesting discovery . The poet no doubt claimed kindred with the family bearing his name formerly ennobled as earls ...
... died in the year 1645 , there is nothing beyond a mere conjecture to justify the application of an intrinsically un- interesting discovery . The poet no doubt claimed kindred with the family bearing his name formerly ennobled as earls ...
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... died in 1708 , a year before the Pastorals were actually published ; but he lived to point out to his young friend the path from which the latter never swerved during his literary career ; he bade him be a ' correct poet , ' or in other ...
... died in 1708 , a year before the Pastorals were actually published ; but he lived to point out to his young friend the path from which the latter never swerved during his literary career ; he bade him be a ' correct poet , ' or in other ...
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... died shortly afterwards in 1734 , secure of a certain kind of immortality . Pope's first acquaintance with Swift , destined to ripen into an intimacy of paramount influence upon the younger of the pair , connects itself with the pub ...
... died shortly afterwards in 1734 , secure of a certain kind of immortality . Pope's first acquaintance with Swift , destined to ripen into an intimacy of paramount influence upon the younger of the pair , connects itself with the pub ...
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... died in 1721 and Parnell in 1718 . 2 He was enabled to hold his estates , but not freed from the consequences of the Act of Attainder which prevented his taking public office or his seat in the House of Lords . His father , an old roué ...
... died in 1721 and Parnell in 1718 . 2 He was enabled to hold his estates , but not freed from the consequences of the Act of Attainder which prevented his taking public office or his seat in the House of Lords . His father , an old roué ...
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... died after an open and free acknowledgment of the faith from the profession of which he had never swerved , and in a calm tranquillity offering a consoling contrast to the turbulence of his intellectual life . The date of his death was ...
... died after an open and free acknowledgment of the faith from the profession of which he had never swerved , and in a calm tranquillity offering a consoling contrast to the turbulence of his intellectual life . The date of his death was ...
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Página 44 - Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, " Sister spirit, come away ! " What is this absorbs me quite ? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my...
Página 196 - 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.
Página 273 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Página 90 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Página 202 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen: Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Página 75 - Form a strong line about the silver bound, And guard the wide circumference around. 'Whatever spirit, careless of his charge, His post neglects, or leaves the fair at large, Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins, Be...
Página 55 - Some to Conceit alone their taste confine, And glitt'ring thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus, unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art.
Página 223 - 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.
Página 191 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Página 196 - 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.