The Works of Alexander Pope, Volumen 3J. Murray, 1881 - 10 páginas |
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Página ix
... those which have been expressed in the earlier part of the work , will have no reason to complain of any breach of continuity in the method in which the evidence , whether it tells against Pope or in his favour , is laid before him PREFACE.
... those which have been expressed in the earlier part of the work , will have no reason to complain of any breach of continuity in the method in which the evidence , whether it tells against Pope or in his favour , is laid before him PREFACE.
Página xi
... evidence as to Pope's character is subjected to anything like a rigorous examination . The excellent Globe edition , the work of Professor Ward , is too well known to require notice from me ; and the same may be said of the admirable ...
... evidence as to Pope's character is subjected to anything like a rigorous examination . The excellent Globe edition , the work of Professor Ward , is too well known to require notice from me ; and the same may be said of the admirable ...
Página 4
... evidence proves incontestably that , with regard to the second of the motives thus alleged , he was himself the first aggressor in many of the quarrels in which he was engaged , and that , as to the third , a large element of personal ...
... evidence proves incontestably that , with regard to the second of the motives thus alleged , he was himself the first aggressor in many of the quarrels in which he was engaged , and that , as to the third , a large element of personal ...
Página 7
... evidence , a considerable portion of the poet's text , which might have been explained by those who lived nearest to his own time , has been left , as of merely secondary interest , to the tender mercies of modern conjec- ture ...
... evidence , a considerable portion of the poet's text , which might have been explained by those who lived nearest to his own time , has been left , as of merely secondary interest , to the tender mercies of modern conjec- ture ...
Página 9
... evidence will prove almost to certainty - to pervert and misinterpret the sense of the poems which had been entrusted to his care . In the Epilogue to the Satires , Pope , with bitter irony , represents the Queen forgiving the Prince of ...
... evidence will prove almost to certainty - to pervert and misinterpret the sense of the poems which had been entrusted to his care . In the Epilogue to the Satires , Pope , with bitter irony , represents the Queen forgiving the Prince of ...
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Página 254 - 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 537 - 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 151 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter...
Página 119 - Let no man say when he is tempted ; I am tempted of God ; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed : then, when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin ; and sin, .when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Página 255 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Página 353 - To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays, And yet deny the Careless Husband praise, Or say our fathers never broke a rule ; Why then, I say, the public is a fool. But let them own, that greater faults than we They had, and greater virtues, I '11 agree.
Página 69 - twould a saint provoke" (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke), " No, let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead— And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.
Página 263 - 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.
Página 296 - Rolls o'er my grotto, and but soothes my sleep. There, my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place. There St John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...
Página 178 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.