The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks, Volumen 2J. Rivington, 1824 |
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... hand , poems on the most unfavourable and trivial subjects have , through the mere genius of their authors , been engraven on the tablets of immortality . Thus we have the Battle of the Frogs and Mice of Homer ; the Georgics of Virgil ...
... hand , poems on the most unfavourable and trivial subjects have , through the mere genius of their authors , been engraven on the tablets of immortality . Thus we have the Battle of the Frogs and Mice of Homer ; the Georgics of Virgil ...
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... any individual was born a poet it was Pope . In- dications of this had manifested themselves as early as eight or nine years of age . In his early progress he refused to be led by the hand through long and thorny ways ix.
... any individual was born a poet it was Pope . In- dications of this had manifested themselves as early as eight or nine years of age . In his early progress he refused to be led by the hand through long and thorny ways ix.
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... hand through long and thorny ways , but went to the living well and drank . As he approached , the great masters of former ages seem to have unfolded their works to him ; and he read and enjoyed them at a time of life when others are ...
... hand through long and thorny ways , but went to the living well and drank . As he approached , the great masters of former ages seem to have unfolded their works to him ; and he read and enjoyed them at a time of life when others are ...
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... hand , and in the skilful use of them no one ever excelled him ; but he never employs them more frequently or longer than the occasion requires . As soon as the idea is communicated , the reader is not in- truded upon by useless ...
... hand , and in the skilful use of them no one ever excelled him ; but he never employs them more frequently or longer than the occasion requires . As soon as the idea is communicated , the reader is not in- truded upon by useless ...
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... hand , no single man is born with a right of controuling the opinions of all the rest ; so on the other , the world has no title to de- mand , that the whole care and time of any parti- cular person should be sacrificed to its entertain ...
... hand , no single man is born with a right of controuling the opinions of all the rest ; so on the other , the world has no title to de- mand , that the whole care and time of any parti- cular person should be sacrificed to its entertain ...
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Adrastus Æneid ancient Aonia appear Argos Bard beautiful blest Bowles breast bright character charms Chaucer crown'd Cynthus dame DAPHNIS delight Dryden Dryope Dunciad earth Eclogues Eteocles ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame fate fire fix'd flames flow'ry fury genius gentle grace grove hæc heav'n Homer honours House of Fame Iliad images IMITATIONS Isaiah Jove joys lines live Lord Lycidas lyre mihi moral mournful Muse nature night NOTES numbers Nymphs o'er Ovid passage Pastoral Petrarch Phaon Phoebus plains pleas'd poem poet poetical poetry Pope pow'r praise quæ quod rage rise rocks sacred Sappho shade shepherds shine sing skies soft soul Spenser spring Statius sublime sweet Temple Thebes thee Theocritus thine thou thought throne tibi translation trees trembling Twas verse Vertumnus Virg Virgil Warburton Warton wife write youth
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Página 53 - 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 348 - To th' instruments divine respondence meet: The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall : The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call : The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Página 61 - If we would copy Nature, it may be useful to take this Idea along with us, that Pastoral is an image of what they call the golden age. So that we are not to describe our shepherds as shepherds at this day really are, but as they may be conceived then to have been ; when the best of men followed the employment.
Página 56 - Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old Bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wisard stream : Ay me ! I fondly dream ! Had ye been there...
Página 106 - 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 ploughshare end.
Página 95 - Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves, Where, other groves and other streams along, With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves, And hears the unexpressive nuptial song In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the saints above, In solemn troops and sweet societies That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Página 109 - 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! See barbarous nations at thy gates attend, Walk in thy light, and in thy temple bend; See thy bright altars throng'd with prostrate kings, And heap'd with products of Sabean springs!
Página 271 - Then came the smallest tribe I yet had seen, Plain was their dress, and modest was their mien. Great idol of mankind ! we neither claim The praise of merit, nor aspire to fame ! But safe in deserts from th...
Página 108 - The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead, And boys in flowery bands the tiger lead; The steer and lion at one crib shall meet, And harmless serpents lick the pilgrim's feet.
Página 84 - Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade ; Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade ; Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.