The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volumen 3J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1751 |
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... You , OWARBURTON ! whofe eye refin❜d 15 Can fee the greatness of an honest mind ; Can fee each Virtue and each Grace unite , And tafte the Raptures of a pure Delight ; You vifit oft his awful Page with Care , And [ ix ] PART.
... You , OWARBURTON ! whofe eye refin❜d 15 Can fee the greatness of an honest mind ; Can fee each Virtue and each Grace unite , And tafte the Raptures of a pure Delight ; You vifit oft his awful Page with Care , And [ ix ] PART.
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... a juft expreffion , bold , Yet ne'er degrade fair SATIRE to a Scold : Let no unworthy mien her form debase , But let her fmile , and let her frown with grace : 250 255 In mirth be temp❜rate , temp'rate in her spleen ; xx ESSAY ON SATIRE .
... a juft expreffion , bold , Yet ne'er degrade fair SATIRE to a Scold : Let no unworthy mien her form debase , But let her fmile , and let her frown with grace : 250 255 In mirth be temp❜rate , temp'rate in her spleen ; xx ESSAY ON SATIRE .
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... Grace a- The Mufe's charms refiftlefs then affail , When wrapt in Irony's tranfparent veil : Her beauties half - conceal'd the more furprize , 265 And keener luftre sparkles in her eyes . Then be your line with fharp encomiums graed ...
... Grace a- The Mufe's charms refiftlefs then affail , When wrapt in Irony's tranfparent veil : Her beauties half - conceal'd the more furprize , 265 And keener luftre sparkles in her eyes . Then be your line with fharp encomiums graed ...
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... grace ; By turns bid Vice or Virtue strike our eyes , Now bid a Wolfey or a Cromwel rise ; 346 350 Now with a touch more facred and refin'd , 355 Call forth aCHESTERFIELD's orLONSDALE's mind . Here sweet or strong may ev'ry Colour flow ...
... grace ; By turns bid Vice or Virtue strike our eyes , Now bid a Wolfey or a Cromwel rise ; 346 350 Now with a touch more facred and refin'd , 355 Call forth aCHESTERFIELD's orLONSDALE's mind . Here sweet or strong may ev'ry Colour flow ...
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... grace of arguments or inftructions , depends on their concifenefs . I was unable to treat this part of my fubject more in detail , without be- coming dry and tedious ; or more poetically , without facrificing perfpicuity to ornament ...
... grace of arguments or inftructions , depends on their concifenefs . I was unable to treat this part of my fubject more in detail , without be- coming dry and tedious ; or more poetically , without facrificing perfpicuity to ornament ...
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Página 37 - As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength; So, cast and mingled with his very frame.
Página 102 - 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 87 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Página 27 - KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest...
Página 23 - 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.
Página 4 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Página 5 - Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know ? Of man, what see we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer ? Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, "Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
Página 43 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Página 87 - Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede ; The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make an enemy of all mankind!
Página 141 - That charm shall grow, while what fatigues the Ring, Flaunts and goes down, an unregarded thing...