The Works of Alexander Pope, Volumen 6Henry Lintot, 1737 |
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... fancy there are ceriain times , when most people are in a dif- pofition of being informed ; and ' tis incredible what a vaft good a little truth might do , spoken in fuch feafons . A fmall alms will do a great kindness , to people in ...
... fancy there are ceriain times , when most people are in a dif- pofition of being informed ; and ' tis incredible what a vaft good a little truth might do , spoken in fuch feafons . A fmall alms will do a great kindness , to people in ...
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... fancy my felf fo extremely like Alexander the great , as you would perfuade me . If I must be like him , ' tis you will make me fo , by complimenting me into a better opinion of my felf than I deferve : They made him think he was the ...
... fancy my felf fo extremely like Alexander the great , as you would perfuade me . If I must be like him , ' tis you will make me fo , by complimenting me into a better opinion of my felf than I deferve : They made him think he was the ...
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... fancy or conceit ; but in the better notion of wit , confider'd as propriety , furely method is not only neceffary for perfpicuity and harmony of parts , but gives beauty even to the minute and particular thoughts , which receive an ...
... fancy or conceit ; but in the better notion of wit , confider'd as propriety , furely method is not only neceffary for perfpicuity and harmony of parts , but gives beauty even to the minute and particular thoughts , which receive an ...
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... fancy of making his fhepherdefs in love with two men equally , is not to be defended , whatever pains he has taken to do it . As for what you ask of the Liberty of Borrowing ; ' tis very evi- dent the best Latin Poets have extended this ...
... fancy of making his fhepherdefs in love with two men equally , is not to be defended , whatever pains he has taken to do it . As for what you ask of the Liberty of Borrowing ; ' tis very evi- dent the best Latin Poets have extended this ...
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... fancy , and that Homer is very incorrect . While they talk at this rate , one would think them above the common rate of mortals : but generally they are great admi- ters of Ovid and Lucan ; and when they write them- felves , we find out ...
... fancy , and that Homer is very incorrect . While they talk at this rate , one would think them above the common rate of mortals : but generally they are great admi- ters of Ovid and Lucan ; and when they write them- felves , we find out ...
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Página 204 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
Página 47 - People seek for what they call wit, on all subjects, and in all places ; not considering that nature loves truth so well, that it hardly ever admits of flourishing : Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty ; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve.
Página 228 - Lordship may cause me to live agreeably in the town, or contentedly in the country, which is really all the difference I set between an easy fortune and a small one.
Página 53 - It is not enough that nothing offends the Ear, but a good Poet will adapt the very Sounds, as well as Words, to the things he treats of. So that there is (if one may express it so) a Style of Sound. As in describing a gliding Stream, the Numbers shou'd run easy and flowing; in describing a rough Torrent or Deluge, sonorous and swelling, and so of the rest.
Página 206 - I have an ambition of having it known that you are my friend, I shall be very proud of showing it by this, or any other instance. I question not but your Translation will enrich our tongue, and do honour to our country...
Página 195 - Plutarch just now told me, that 'tis in human life as in a game at tables, where a man may wish for the highest cast, but, if his chance be otherwise, he is e'en to play it as well as he can, and to make the best of it.
Página 73 - ... shade. In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away. In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day. Sound sleep by night; study and ease, Together mixt; sweet recreation: And innocence, which most does please With meditation.
Página 141 - I paced on slowly, without company, or any interruption to the range of my thoughts. About a mile before I reached Oxford, all the bells...
Página 197 - The memory of man, (as it is elegantly exprefs'd in the Book of Wifdom) pafleth away as the remembrance of a gueft that tarrieth but one day. There are reafons enough, in the fourth chapter of the fame . book, to make any young man contented with the profpect of death.
Página 233 - Great Turk in poetry, who can never bear a brother on the throne ; and has his mutes too, a set of nodders, winkers, and whisperers, whose business is to strangle all other offsprings of wit in their birth.