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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... epistle confiders the nature and state of man with respect to the Universe . Here the poet fhews how imperfect our reasonings must be both with respect to God and Man : For that as we know no more of man , than what we can learn from ...
... epistle confiders the nature and state of man with respect to the Universe . Here the poet fhews how imperfect our reasonings must be both with respect to God and Man : For that as we know no more of man , than what we can learn from ...
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... Epistle to Lord Cobham . " There is a woman's war , fays he , declared " against me by a certain Lord ; his weapons " are the fame which women and children use , a pin to scratch , and a squirt to befpatter . I " writ a fort of anfwer ...
... Epistle to Lord Cobham . " There is a woman's war , fays he , declared " against me by a certain Lord ; his weapons " are the fame which women and children use , a pin to scratch , and a squirt to befpatter . I " writ a fort of anfwer ...
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... Epistle of the fecond Book of Horace is truly excellent ; and though the fhining paffages may not be fo numerous as in the foregoing Epiftle ; yct fuch as ftrike us , are very fplendid , and much fuperior to the original more efpecially ...
... Epistle of the fecond Book of Horace is truly excellent ; and though the fhining paffages may not be fo numerous as in the foregoing Epiftle ; yct fuch as ftrike us , are very fplendid , and much fuperior to the original more efpecially ...
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... Epistle , though not finished till 1733 , was begun many years before , as our author affures us in his advertisement prefixed to it ; and as it alludes to the DUNCIAD , it was thought proper to men- tion it at this place , though out ...
... Epistle , though not finished till 1733 , was begun many years before , as our author affures us in his advertisement prefixed to it ; and as it alludes to the DUNCIAD , it was thought proper to men- tion it at this place , though out ...
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... epistle . Our poet having told his cafe , and humor- oully applied to his phyfician , in the manner one would ask for a recipe to kill vermin , he proceeds in the common character of fuch as afk advice , to acquaint his Doctor that he ...
... epistle . Our poet having told his cafe , and humor- oully applied to his phyfician , in the manner one would ask for a recipe to kill vermin , he proceeds in the common character of fuch as afk advice , to acquaint his Doctor that he ...
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Página 256 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
Página 192 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
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 265 - Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge Thy foe. 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 299 - Consult the Genius of the Place in all; That tells the Waters or to rise, or fall; Or helps th...
Página 152 - Oh! happy state! when souls each other draw, When love is liberty, and nature law...
Página 192 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Página 299 - Or helps th' ambitious Hill the heav'ns to scale, Or scoops in circling theatres the Vale; Calls in the Country, catches op'ning glades, Joins willing Woods, and varies shades from shades; Now breaks, or now directs, th' intending Lines; Paints as you plant, and, as you work, designs.
Página 355 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Página 264 - What conscience dictates to be done. Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heaven pursue.