... The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volumen 2

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Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1825
 

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Página 145 - How Time himself stands still at her command, Realms shift their place, and ocean turns to land. Here gay Description ^Egypt glads with showers, Or gives to Zembla fruits, to Barca flowers ; Glittering with ice here hoary hills are seen, There painted valleys of eternal green, In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow. All these, and more, the cloud-compelling queen...
Página 105 - Abelard ! ill-fated youth, Thy tale will justify this truth : But well I weet, thy cruel wrong Adorns a nobler poet's song. Dan Pope for thy misfortune griev'd, With kind concern and skill has weav'd A silken web ; and ne'er shall fade Its colours ; gently has he laid The mantle o'er thy sad distress, And Venus shall the texture bless.
Página 104 - ... any art or science, which have not been touched upon by others ; we have little else left us, but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights. If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry...
Página 251 - The critic eye, that microscope of wit, Sees hairs and pores, examines bit by bit : How parts relate to parts, or they to whole, The body's harmony, the beaming soul, Are things which Kuster, Burman, Wasse shall see, When man's whole frame is obvious to a flea.
Página 173 - And all who knew those Dunces to reward. Amid that area wide they took their stand, Where the tall May-pole once o'erlook'd the Strand, But now (so ANNE and Piety ordain) A Church collects the saints of Drury-lane. 30 With Authors, Stationers obey'd the call ; The field of glory is a field for all ! Glory, and gain, th' industrious tribe provoke ; And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke.
Página 253 - Through school and college, thy kind cloud o'ercast, Safe and unseen, the young ^Eneas past : Thence bursting glorious, all at once let down, Stunn'd with his giddy larum half the town. Intrepid then, o'er seas and lands he flew : Europe he saw, and Europe saw him too. There all thy gifts and graces we display, Thou, only thou, directing all our way : To where the Seine, obsequious as she runs, Pours at great Bourbon's feet her silken...
Página 87 - WELL then, poor G lies under ground ! So there's an end of honest Jack : So little justice here he found, 'Tis ten to one he'll ne'er come back.
Página 148 - In merry old England it once was a rule, The King had his Poet, and also his Fool : But now we're so frugal, I'd have you to know it, That Cibber can serve both for Fool and for Poet.
Página 246 - Some gentle JAMES, to bless the land again; To stick the Doctor's Chair into the Throne, Give law to Words, or war with Words alone, Senates and Courts with Greek and Latin rule, And turn the Council to a Grammar School!
Página 87 - SWIFT, To Lady Betty Gertnaine, Jan. 1733. f " 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 e'en among the great : A safe companion, and an easy friend, Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end.

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