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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... thing remarkable happened to our poet , either at his birth , or during his early infancy . No bees were feen to hang upon his lips , no doves bound his temples with the laurel of Apollo , or the myrtle of Venus . He He was born in ...
... thing remarkable happened to our poet , either at his birth , or during his early infancy . No bees were feen to hang upon his lips , no doves bound his temples with the laurel of Apollo , or the myrtle of Venus . He He was born in ...
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... thing which he did not pursue with pleasure : and his masters either wanted fagacity to difcover the bent of his genius , or talents to adapt , their inftructions accordingly , fo as to render his ftudies an amufe- ment to him . Finding ...
... thing which he did not pursue with pleasure : and his masters either wanted fagacity to difcover the bent of his genius , or talents to adapt , their inftructions accordingly , fo as to render his ftudies an amufe- ment to him . Finding ...
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... thing , he used to fay , he could never forgive his philofophic mafter , was the dedication to the effay * . : He likewise read Sir William Temple's effays ; but when he met with any thing political in them , he owned that he had no ...
... thing , he used to fay , he could never forgive his philofophic mafter , was the dedication to the effay * . : He likewise read Sir William Temple's effays ; but when he met with any thing political in them , he owned that he had no ...
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... thing fixed in his perfon , that doth induce contempt , hath alfo a perpetual fpur within himself , to refcue and deliver himself from fcorn . This confideration , therefore , might render render our poet more affiduous to cultivate his ...
... thing fixed in his perfon , that doth induce contempt , hath alfo a perpetual fpur within himself , to refcue and deliver himself from fcorn . This confideration , therefore , might render render our poet more affiduous to cultivate his ...
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... things in general eftimation , are not always valued because they are in themselves exquifite , but because they are fcarce and rare . If they are common , they in fome degree lofe their value , and confequently any other reward ...
... things in general eftimation , are not always valued because they are in themselves exquifite , but because they are fcarce and rare . If they are common , they in fome degree lofe their value , and confequently any other reward ...
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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.