The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volumen 1W. Suttaby, 1807 - 408 páginas |
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... shade what does " not require a full view ; so that it may be said " that Homer is the painter who best knew how " to employ the shades and lights . The second " comparison is equally unjust how could Mr. " Pope say , ' that one can ...
... shade what does " not require a full view ; so that it may be said " that Homer is the painter who best knew how " to employ the shades and lights . The second " comparison is equally unjust how could Mr. " Pope say , ' that one can ...
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... shade , The gentler brow of the soft Lesbian maid , ) Go to the good and just , an awful train , Thy soul's delight , and glory of the fane ; While thro ' the earth thy dear remembrance flies , " Sweet to the world and grateful to the ...
... shade , The gentler brow of the soft Lesbian maid , ) Go to the good and just , an awful train , Thy soul's delight , and glory of the fane ; While thro ' the earth thy dear remembrance flies , " Sweet to the world and grateful to the ...
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... shade , The gentler brow of the soft Lesbian maid , ) Go to the good and just , an awful train , Thy soul's delight , and glory of the fane ; While thro ' the earth thy dear remembrance flies , “ Sweet to the world and grateful to the ...
... shade , The gentler brow of the soft Lesbian maid , ) Go to the good and just , an awful train , Thy soul's delight , and glory of the fane ; While thro ' the earth thy dear remembrance flies , “ Sweet to the world and grateful to the ...
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... oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade ? Or ask of yonder argent fields above Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove ! Of systems possible , if ' tis confest That wisdom 2 Epist . I. ESSAY ON MAN .
... oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade ? Or ask of yonder argent fields above Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove ! Of systems possible , if ' tis confest That wisdom 2 Epist . I. ESSAY ON MAN .
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... shades , whose well - accorded strife Gives all the strength and colour of our life . Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes , And when in act they cease , in prospect rise ; Present to grasp , and future still to find , The whole ...
... shades , whose well - accorded strife Gives all the strength and colour of our life . Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes , And when in act they cease , in prospect rise ; Present to grasp , and future still to find , The whole ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Addison Adrastus ancient arms Balaam bard Bavius beauty behold bless'd breast bright charms court crown'd Cynthus divine dread Dryden Dryope Dulness Dunciad e'er Eridanus Eteocles eternal ev'n eyes fair fame fate fire fix'd flames fool genius give glory goddess gods grace hand happy head heart Heav'n honour Iliad IMITATIONS Jove king knave learn'd learned live lord lov'd mankind mind mortal Muse nature ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er once passion Phaon plain pleas'd poet Pope pow'r praise pray'r pride proud queen rage reign rise roll round sacred Sappho satire sense shade shine sighs silvan sing skies Smil soft soul spread sylphs tears Thalestris Thebes thee thine things thou throne trembling Twas verse Vertumnus Virg Virgil virgin virtue Westminster Abbey whate'er Whig wings wretched write youth
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Página 156 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Página 43 - 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. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court. In various talk th...
Página 217 - And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own ? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came...
Página 82 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest, who have learned to dance : 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
Página 81 - And value books, as women men, for dress : Their praise is still — the style is excellent ; The sense, they humbly take upon content. Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Página 32 - What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue. What blessings thy free bounty gives Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives; T
Página 79 - A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ ; Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The generous pleasure to be charm'd with wit.
Página 374 - She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval and of Chaos old ! Before her, fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus
Página 2 - Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach ; from Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing.
Página xxxv - In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.