The Works of Alexander Pope, Volumen 3J. Murray, 1881 |
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Página ix
... which have been expressed in the earlier part of the work , will have no reason to complain of any breach of continuity in the method in which the evidence , whether it tells against Pope or in his favour , is laid before him.
... which have been expressed in the earlier part of the work , will have no reason to complain of any breach of continuity in the method in which the evidence , whether it tells against Pope or in his favour , is laid before him.
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... reason is that Pope himself has made it almost im- possible to consider the nature of his poetical genius apart from his moral character . Whenever he was hard pressed by the many assailants whom his satire provoked , he was in the ...
... reason is that Pope himself has made it almost im- possible to consider the nature of his poetical genius apart from his moral character . Whenever he was hard pressed by the many assailants whom his satire provoked , he was in the ...
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... reason I feel it to be desirable , in the preface to a volume which contains some of his most bril- liant and characteristic writing , to make some reference to the very scholarly and interesting Sketch of Pope's Life and Genius by Mr ...
... reason I feel it to be desirable , in the preface to a volume which contains some of his most bril- liant and characteristic writing , to make some reference to the very scholarly and interesting Sketch of Pope's Life and Genius by Mr ...
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... reasons has hitherto been only partially explained . The Moral Essays and Satires deserve to be read with the same attention as ... reason , since his process of composition is so interesting in itself , and the general excellence of his ...
... reasons has hitherto been only partially explained . The Moral Essays and Satires deserve to be read with the same attention as ... reason , since his process of composition is so interesting in itself , and the general excellence of his ...
Página 42
... reasons has hitherto been only partially explained . The Moral Essays and Satires deserve to be read with the same attention as ... reason , since his process of composition is so interesting in itself , and the general excellence of his ...
... reasons has hitherto been only partially explained . The Moral Essays and Satires deserve to be read with the same attention as ... reason , since his process of composition is so interesting in itself , and the general excellence of his ...
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Página 381 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
Página 252 - View him with scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise, 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 533 - He, who still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left: And he, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, Means not, but blunders round about a meaning...
Página 118 - Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man ; but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin : and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Página 150 - Of mimic statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to flatter, left of all his store ! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame ; this lord of useless thousands ends.
Página 472 - Argyll, the state's whole thunder born to wield, And shake alike the senate and the field? Or Wyndham, just to freedom and the throne, The master of our passions and his own? Names which I long have...
Página 530 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Página 239 - Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song...
Página 176 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Página 91 - Nothing so true as what you once let fall, "Most women have no characters at all." Matter too soft a lasting mark to bear, And best distinguished by black, brown, or fair.