The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Revised and arranged expressly for the use of young people, by W.C. MacreadyBradbury & Evans, 1849 - 392 páginas |
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... heaven and earth deplore , " Fair Daphne's dead , and love is now no more ! " ' Tis done , and nature's various charms decay , See gloomy clouds obscure the cheerful day ! Now hung with pearls the dropping trees appear , Their faded ...
... heaven and earth deplore , " Fair Daphne's dead , and love is now no more ! " ' Tis done , and nature's various charms decay , See gloomy clouds obscure the cheerful day ! Now hung with pearls the dropping trees appear , Their faded ...
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... heaven descend . Swift fly the years , and rise the expected morn ! Oh spring to light , auspicious Babe , be born ! See Nature hastes her earliest wreaths to bring , With all the incense of the breathing spring : • " A Virgin shall ...
... heaven descend . Swift fly the years , and rise the expected morn ! Oh spring to light , auspicious Babe , be born ! See Nature hastes her earliest wreaths to bring , With all the incense of the breathing spring : • " A Virgin shall ...
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... heaven its sparkling portals wide display , And break upon thee in a flood of day . 0 No more the rising sun shall gild the morn , Nor evening Cynthia fill her silver horn ; But lost , dissolved in thy superior rays , One tide of glory ...
... heaven its sparkling portals wide display , And break upon thee in a flood of day . 0 No more the rising sun shall gild the morn , Nor evening Cynthia fill her silver horn ; But lost , dissolved in thy superior rays , One tide of glory ...
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... heaven itself though sevenfold Nilus flows , And harvests on a hundred realms bestows ; These now no more shall be the Muse's themes , Lost in my fame , as in the sea their streams . Let Volga's banks with iron squadrons shine , And ...
... heaven itself though sevenfold Nilus flows , And harvests on a hundred realms bestows ; These now no more shall be the Muse's themes , Lost in my fame , as in the sea their streams . Let Volga's banks with iron squadrons shine , And ...
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... heaven to hear . Of Orpheus now no more let poets tell , To bright Cecilia greater power is given ; His numbers raised a shade from hell , Hers lift the soul to heaven . Ꭰ TWO CHORUSES TO THE TRAGEDY OF BRUTUST . CHORUS OF ODE ON ST ...
... heaven to hear . Of Orpheus now no more let poets tell , To bright Cecilia greater power is given ; His numbers raised a shade from hell , Hers lift the soul to heaven . Ꭰ TWO CHORUSES TO THE TRAGEDY OF BRUTUST . CHORUS OF ODE ON ST ...
Términos y frases comunes
Adrastus Æneid Ambrose Philips ancient arms bard Bavius behold blest breast breath charms Cibber clouds Codrus court cried crown'd death divine dread Dryope Dulness Dunciad Eteocles eternal eyes fair fame fate fire fix'd flames flies fool genius give glory goddess gods gold grace hand head heart Heaven heroes honour Horace Jove king knave learning live Lord lyre mighty monumental brass mortal Muse nature ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er once Ovid passion Phoebus Pindar pleased poem poet Polynices praise pride proud Queen rage reign rhyme rise roll round sacred Sappho satire seem'd sense shade shine sighs sing skies smiles soft soul sound spread sylphs tears Thalestris Thebes thee thine things thou throne trembling verse VIRG Virgil virtue Whig winds wings wretched youth
Pasajes populares
Página 314 - Sense ! See Mystery to Mathematics fly! In vain, they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Página 127 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way ; Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven...
Página 12 - Rise, crown'd with light, imperial Salem, rise! Exalt thy towery head, and lift thy eyes! See a long race thy spacious courts adorn; See future sons and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks, on every side arise Demanding life, impatient for the skies!
Página 12 - Nor evening Cynthia fill her silver horn ; But lost, dissolved in thy superior rays, One tide of glory, one unclouded blaze O'erflow thy courts; the Light himself shall shine Reveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine...
Página 156 - That REASON, PASSION, answer one great aim ; That true SELF-LOVE and SOCIAL are the same ; That VIRTUE only makes our bliss below ; And all our knowledge is, OURSELVES TO KNOW. THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER. DEO OPT. MAX, FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord...
Página 37 - Who gave the ball or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes: At every word a reputation dies.
Página 27 - whispers through the trees:" If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep...
Página 127 - Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.
Página 11 - No more shall nation against nation rise, Nor ardent warriors meet with hateful eyes. Nor fields with gleaming steel be cover'd o'er, The brazen trumpets kindle rage no more ; But useless lances into scythes shall bend, And the broad falchion in a plough-share end.
Página 36 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home ; Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.