The Works of Alexander Pope, Volumen 3J. Murray, 1881 |
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... things by initial letters . " If this was the feeling of an intimate friend of Pope's , living always within reach of an explanation of difficulties , how much more must it be ours , to whom the things and persons described in these ...
... things by initial letters . " If this was the feeling of an intimate friend of Pope's , living always within reach of an explanation of difficulties , how much more must it be ours , to whom the things and persons described in these ...
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... thing that strikes us is a certain contradiction between the reforming ardour professed in the lines quoted above and the ethical system which Pope had formulated in the Essay on Man ' and in the ' Moral Essays . ' It was natural that ...
... thing that strikes us is a certain contradiction between the reforming ardour professed in the lines quoted above and the ethical system which Pope had formulated in the Essay on Man ' and in the ' Moral Essays . ' It was natural that ...
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... thing than our wits ) our judgments jump in the notion that all scribblers should be passed by in silence . *** let Gildon and Phillips rest in peace . " Unfortunately his in- vention or his inclination proved , in the end , too strong ...
... thing than our wits ) our judgments jump in the notion that all scribblers should be passed by in silence . *** let Gildon and Phillips rest in peace . " Unfortunately his in- vention or his inclination proved , in the end , too strong ...
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... things a ' candid satirist , ' and his satire , as Pope says , was directed against pretenders . Take , for instance , his account of his motives in his Address ' A son Esprit . ' He supposes an objector to protest that it was wrong in ...
... things a ' candid satirist , ' and his satire , as Pope says , was directed against pretenders . Take , for instance , his account of his motives in his Address ' A son Esprit . ' He supposes an objector to protest that it was wrong in ...
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... things , which he thus formed , were lasting ; his most familiar correspondence and his most bitter satire continued till his death to bear marks of his early intercourse with Cicero , Seneca , and Montaigne ; and he invariably viewed ...
... things , which he thus formed , were lasting ; his most familiar correspondence and his most bitter satire continued till his death to bear marks of his early intercourse with Cicero , Seneca , and Montaigne ; and he invariably viewed ...
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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.