The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Life, Volumen 2Little, Brown, 1859 |
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... things , one knows not what to call , Their generation's so equivocal ; To tell them would a hundred tongues require , Or one vain wit's , that might a hundred tire . But you who seek to give and merit fame , And justly bear a critic's ...
... things , one knows not what to call , Their generation's so equivocal ; To tell them would a hundred tongues require , Or one vain wit's , that might a hundred tire . But you who seek to give and merit fame , And justly bear a critic's ...
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... drives that cloud away , Truth breaks upon us with resistless day . Trust not yourself ; but your defects to know , Make use of every friend - and every foe . A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep OF POPE . 11.
... drives that cloud away , Truth breaks upon us with resistless day . Trust not yourself ; but your defects to know , Make use of every friend - and every foe . A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep OF POPE . 11.
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With a Life Alexander Pope. A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep , or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain , And drinking largely sobers us again . Fir'd at first sight with what the ...
With a Life Alexander Pope. A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep , or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain , And drinking largely sobers us again . Fir'd at first sight with what the ...
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... in vain ) with " sleep ; " Then , at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought , 2 Ben Johnson's Every Man out of his Humour . A needless Alexandrine ends the song , That , like 16 THE POEMS.
... in vain ) with " sleep ; " Then , at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought , 2 Ben Johnson's Every Man out of his Humour . A needless Alexandrine ends the song , That , like 16 THE POEMS.
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... things seem large which we through mist descry , Dulness is ever apt to magnify . Some foreign writers , some our own despise ; The ancients only , or the moderns prize . Thus wit , like faith , by each man is applied To one small sect ...
... things seem large which we through mist descry , Dulness is ever apt to magnify . Some foreign writers , some our own despise ; The ancients only , or the moderns prize . Thus wit , like faith , by each man is applied To one small sect ...
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Página 3 - To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. Some few in that, but numbers err in this, Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss; A fool might once himself alone expose, Now one in verse makes many more in prose. Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Página 48 - Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd 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, In doubt to deem himself a God, or Beast; In doubt his Mind or Body to prefer...
Página 86 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge Thy foe. If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way!
Página 69 - For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Página 6 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides; Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...
Página 49 - Two principles in human nature reign, Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain ; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call ; Each works its end, to move or govern all ; And to their proper operation still Ascribe all good, to their improper — ilL Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole.
Página 135 - You show us Rome was glorious, not profuse, And pompous buildings once were things of use; Yet shall, my lord, your just, your noble rules, Fill half the land with imitating fools ; Who random drawings from your sheets shall take; And of one beauty many blunders make...
Página 46 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name : Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point : This kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on thee.
Página 17 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with
Página 61 - One in their nature, which are two in ours ; And reason raise o'er instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis Man.