Selected Poems of Alexander PopePearson Education, 1916 - 146 páginas |
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... race supply , The bright - ey'd perch with fins of Tyrian dye . The silver eel , in shining volumes roll'd , The yellow carp , in scales bedropp'd with gold , Swift trouts , diversified with crimson stains , And pikes , the tyrants of ...
... race supply , The bright - ey'd perch with fins of Tyrian dye . The silver eel , in shining volumes roll'd , The yellow carp , in scales bedropp'd with gold , Swift trouts , diversified with crimson stains , And pikes , the tyrants of ...
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... hairy springes we the birds betray , Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey , Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare , And beauty draws us with a single hair . ΙΟ 20 Th ' advent'rous Baron the bright locks admir'd ; He 30.
... hairy springes we the birds betray , Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey , Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare , And beauty draws us with a single hair . ΙΟ 20 Th ' advent'rous Baron the bright locks admir'd ; He 30.
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... race preside , Watch all their ways , and all their actions guide : Of these the chief the care of Nations own , And guard with Arms divine the British Throne . ' Our humbler province is to tend the Fair , Not a less pleasing , tho ...
... race preside , Watch all their ways , and all their actions guide : Of these the chief the care of Nations own , And guard with Arms divine the British Throne . ' Our humbler province is to tend the Fair , Not a less pleasing , tho ...
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... race , Are , as when women , wondrous fond of place . Behold , four Kings in majesty rever'd , With hoary whiskers and a forky beard ; And four fair Queens whose hands sustain a flow'r , Th ' expressive emblem of their softer pow'r ...
... race , Are , as when women , wondrous fond of place . Behold , four Kings in majesty rever'd , With hoary whiskers and a forky beard ; And four fair Queens whose hands sustain a flow'r , Th ' expressive emblem of their softer pow'r ...
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... Race . But thou , false guardian of a charge too good , Thou , mean deserter of thy brother's blood ! See on these ruby lips the trembling breath , These cheeks now fading at the blast of death : Cold is that breast which warm'd the ...
... Race . But thou , false guardian of a charge too good , Thou , mean deserter of thy brother's blood ! See on these ruby lips the trembling breath , These cheeks now fading at the blast of death : Cold is that breast which warm'd the ...
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Abelard Addison ALEXANDER POPE Ambrose Philips Arbuthnot Atalantis Bavius beauty Belinda Bentley blest breast breath Canto charms Cibber clouds Colley Cibber criticism Dæmons dead death divine dread Duke dull Dulness Dunce Dunciad e'er Earl edited Eloïsa Epistle to Dr Essay Essay on Criticism eternal Ev'n ev'ry Extracts eyes F. W. Bateson fair fame fate flow'rs fool Francis Atterbury Gnome Goddess grace hair hand head heart heav'n honour Kings Lady Lock Lord Lord Hervey lov'd lovers maid moral Muse Nature nymph o'er once Passion Pastorals poet poetry Pope Pope's pow'r pray'rs pride Queen rage rest rise Roman round Sappho satire Scriblerus Club Selected Poems sense shining sighs soft soul spirits Swift Sylphs tears Thalestris thee thine thou thro throne trembling Twickenham Umbriel verse Whig Windsor Forest wings youth ΙΟ
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Página 122 - 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, To enjoy is to obey.
Página 22 - 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 gen'rous pleasure to be charm'd with wit.
Página 63 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Página 83 - 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 63 - Hope humbly then: with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher Death; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that Hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never Is, but always To be blest: The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Página 123 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Página 29 - A heav'nly image in the glass appears, To that she bends, to that her eyes she rears; Th' inferior Priestess, at her altar's side, Trembling begins the sacred rites of Pride. Unnumber'd treasures ope at once, and here The various...
Página 23 - Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
Página 134 - Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child ; With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age ; Above temptation, in a low estate ; And uncorrupted...
Página 39 - Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine,' The victor cried; 'the glorious prize is mine! While fish in streams, or birds delight in air, Or in a coach and six the British- fair, As long as Atalantis shall be read...