The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, Volumen 2J. Gladding, 1836 |
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Alexander Pope. For fainting age what cordial drop remains , If our intemperate youth the vessel drains ? Our fathers praised rank venison . You suppose , Perhaps , young men ! our fathers had no nose . Not so : a buck was then a week's ...
Alexander Pope. For fainting age what cordial drop remains , If our intemperate youth the vessel drains ? Our fathers praised rank venison . You suppose , Perhaps , young men ! our fathers had no nose . Not so : a buck was then a week's ...
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... youth , and follow'd without power : At home , though exiled ; free , though in the Tower ; In short , that reasoning , high immortal thing , Just less than Jove , and much above a king ; Nay , half in heaven - except ( what's mighty ...
... youth , and follow'd without power : At home , though exiled ; free , though in the Tower ; In short , that reasoning , high immortal thing , Just less than Jove , and much above a king ; Nay , half in heaven - except ( what's mighty ...
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... youth , And sets the passions on the side of truth , Forms the soft bosom with the gentlest art , And pours each human virtue in the heart . Let Ireland tell how wit upheld her cause , Her trade supported , and supplied her laws ; And ...
... youth , And sets the passions on the side of truth , Forms the soft bosom with the gentlest art , And pours each human virtue in the heart . Let Ireland tell how wit upheld her cause , Her trade supported , and supplied her laws ; And ...
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... youth of good queen Bess , But mere tuff - taffety what now remain'd ; So time , that changes all things , had ordain'd ! Our sons shall see it leisurely decay , First turn plain rash , then vanish quite away . This thing has travell'd ...
... youth of good queen Bess , But mere tuff - taffety what now remain'd ; So time , that changes all things , had ordain'd ! Our sons shall see it leisurely decay , First turn plain rash , then vanish quite away . This thing has travell'd ...
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... youth , engaged no more , At Fig's , at White's , with felons , or a whore , Pay their last duty to the court , and come All fresh and fragrant , to the drawing - room ; In hues as gay , and odours as divine , As the fair fields they ...
... youth , engaged no more , At Fig's , at White's , with felons , or a whore , Pay their last duty to the court , and come All fresh and fragrant , to the drawing - room ; In hues as gay , and odours as divine , As the fair fields they ...
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Página 6 - And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love? A dire dilemma! either way I'm sped. If foes, they write, if friends, they read me dead.
Página 11 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Página 10 - Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flowery theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream.
Página 131 - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
Página 7 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage !' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Página 306 - 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 6 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Página 11 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Página 305 - 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 14 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.