The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Carefully Collated and Compared with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and CommentatorsEditor, and sold, 1778 |
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Página vii
... youth may be made ( as it never fails to be in executions ) a cafe of compaffion . That I was never fo concerned about my works as to vindicate them in print , believing , if any thing was good , it would de- fend itself , and what was ...
... youth may be made ( as it never fails to be in executions ) a cafe of compaffion . That I was never fo concerned about my works as to vindicate them in print , believing , if any thing was good , it would de- fend itself , and what was ...
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... youth , as age confummate too : Your ftrains are regularly bold , and please With unforc'd care , and unaffected eafe , With proper thoughts , and lively images : Such as by nature to the ancients shewn , 5 IO 15 20 } Fancy improves ...
... youth , as age confummate too : Your ftrains are regularly bold , and please With unforc'd care , and unaffected eafe , With proper thoughts , and lively images : Such as by nature to the ancients shewn , 5 IO 15 20 } Fancy improves ...
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... youth ( if nature warm his heart , And all his projects stand inform'd with art ) Here clear the caves , there ope the leading vein ; The mines detected flame with gold again . 60 How vaft , how copious , are thy new defigns ! 65 How ev ...
... youth ( if nature warm his heart , And all his projects stand inform'd with art ) Here clear the caves , there ope the leading vein ; The mines detected flame with gold again . 60 How vaft , how copious , are thy new defigns ! 65 How ev ...
Página xxi
... youth he taught applaud , Pleas'd to behold the earneft of a god . IO 15 But hark , what fhouts , what gath'ring crouds rejoice ! Unftain'd their praise by any venal voice , Such as the ambitious vainly think their due , When ...
... youth he taught applaud , Pleas'd to behold the earneft of a god . IO 15 But hark , what fhouts , what gath'ring crouds rejoice ! Unftain'd their praise by any venal voice , Such as the ambitious vainly think their due , When ...
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... youth ferments your blood , And purer spirits fwell the sprightly flood ,糖 Alluding to the New Foreft , and the tyrannics exercifed there by Wil- Liam the First . William Rufus , fecond fon of William the Conqueror , Now Now range the ...
... youth ferments your blood , And purer spirits fwell the sprightly flood ,糖 Alluding to the New Foreft , and the tyrannics exercifed there by Wil- Liam the First . William Rufus , fecond fon of William the Conqueror , Now Now range the ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 57 - 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 256 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam : Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line...
Página 337 - To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the column, or the arch to bend, To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot.
Página 101 - What boots the regal circle on his head, His giant limbs, in state unwieldy spread; That long behind he trails his pompous robe, And, of all monarchs, only grasps the globe? The baron now his diamonds pours apace; Th...
Página 288 - Pursues that chain which links th' immense design, Joins heav'n and earth, and mortal and divine; Sees, that no being any bliss can know, But touches some above, and some below; Learns, from this union of the rising whole, The first, last purpose of the human soul; And knows where faith, law, morals, all began, All end, in love of God, and love of man.
Página 294 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe.
Página 284 - Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go ! and pretend your family is young, Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. Look next on greatness : say where greatness lies, Where, but among the heroes and the wise...
Página 92 - And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transform'd to combs, the speckled and the white.
Página 279 - Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? • Where grows ? — where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil...
Página 330 - 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 repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!