The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Compiled from Original Manuscripts; with a Critical Essay on His Writings and GeniusC. Bathurst, H. Woodfall, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, W. Johnston, B. White, T. Caslon, T. Longman, B. Law, Johnson and Payne, S. Bladon, T. Cadell, and the executors of A. Millar., 1769 - 578 páginas |
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... less exquifite in itself , is most likely to become the object of defire . Any other premium than figs and honey , might therefore , in Sicily , have been affigned with greater propriety , and would have difplayed more invention in the ...
... less exquifite in itself , is most likely to become the object of defire . Any other premium than figs and honey , might therefore , in Sicily , have been affigned with greater propriety , and would have difplayed more invention in the ...
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... less than a fortnight , in the year 1711 , when he was about the age of twenty - three . Our author fent a copy of it to the Lady , with whom he was acquainted , and she was fo delighted with it , that the diftributed copies of it among ...
... less than a fortnight , in the year 1711 , when he was about the age of twenty - three . Our author fent a copy of it to the Lady , with whom he was acquainted , and she was fo delighted with it , that the diftributed copies of it among ...
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... less my sense , the more my love ap- 66 pears . The fecond line in the Latin is flat and lan- guid , but the tranflator has improved it by an elegant turn of fentiment . It may be faid of the fucceeding lines like- wife , that they ...
... less my sense , the more my love ap- 66 pears . The fecond line in the Latin is flat and lan- guid , but the tranflator has improved it by an elegant turn of fentiment . It may be faid of the fucceeding lines like- wife , that they ...
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... less paffionate , and rather to perform the duties of his holy function , in her dying moments . " Ah no --- in facred veftments may'ft thou " ftand , " The hallow'd taper trembling in thy hand , " Present the Crofs before my lifted eye ...
... less paffionate , and rather to perform the duties of his holy function , in her dying moments . " Ah no --- in facred veftments may'ft thou " ftand , " The hallow'd taper trembling in thy hand , " Present the Crofs before my lifted eye ...
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... less than 6000 and our author afterwards fold it to Lintot * for 1200 l . in money , befides all the books ing written in the envelopes of letters ; which occafioned Swift's calling him - Paper - fparing Pope . The foul copy of the ...
... less than 6000 and our author afterwards fold it to Lintot * for 1200 l . in money , befides all the books ing written in the envelopes of letters ; which occafioned Swift's calling him - Paper - fparing Pope . The foul copy of the ...
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Página 265 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Página 231 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!
Página 123 - In some lone isle, or distant northern land; Where the gilt chariot never marks the way, Where none learn ombre, none e'er taste bohea!
Página 231 - The proper study of mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err...
Página 192 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Página 124 - Who would not scorn what Housewife's Cares produce, Or who would learn one earthly Thing of Use ? To patch, nay ogle, might become a Saint, Nor could it sure be such a Sin to paint. But since, alas ! frail Beauty must decay...
Página 163 - Come, Abelard ! for what hast thou to dread ? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature stands check'd ; Religion disapproves ; Ev'n thou art cold — yet Eloisa loves. 260 Ah hopeless, lasting flames ! like those that burn To light the dead, and warm th
Página 381 - But chief her shrine where naked Venus keeps, And Cupids ride the Lion of the Deeps; Where, eas'd of Fleets, the Adriatic main Wafts the smooth Eunuch and enamour'd swain.
Página 80 - She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For, as in bodies, thus in souls we find, What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Página 239 - Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod; The state of Nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man.