The Works of Alexander Pope ...W. P. Hazard, 1856 - 504 Seiten |
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... light , but many which I thought tolerable . I would not be like those authors , who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole poem , and vice versa a whole poem for the sake of some particular lines . 1 believe ...
... light , but many which I thought tolerable . I would not be like those authors , who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole poem , and vice versa a whole poem for the sake of some particular lines . 1 believe ...
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... light these common enemies of mankind ; since , to invalidate this universal slander , it sufficed to shew what contemptible men were the authors of it . He was not without hopes that , by mani- festing the dulness of those who had only ...
... light these common enemies of mankind ; since , to invalidate this universal slander , it sufficed to shew what contemptible men were the authors of it . He was not without hopes that , by mani- festing the dulness of those who had only ...
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... light militia of the lower sky ; These , though unseen , are ever on the wing , Hang o'er the box , and hover round the ring . Think what an equipage thou hast in air , And view with scorn two pages and a chair . As now your own , our ...
... light militia of the lower sky ; These , though unseen , are ever on the wing , Hang o'er the box , and hover round the ring . Think what an equipage thou hast in air , And view with scorn two pages and a chair . As now your own , our ...
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... a pair of gloves , And all the trophies of his former loves ; With tender billet - doux he lights the pyre , And breathes three amorous sighs to raise the fire ; Then prostrate falls , and begs with ardent eyes Soon CANTO II. ...
... a pair of gloves , And all the trophies of his former loves ; With tender billet - doux he lights the pyre , And breathes three amorous sighs to raise the fire ; Then prostrate falls , and begs with ardent eyes Soon CANTO II. ...
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... light , Loose to the wind their airy garments flew , Thin glittering textures of the filmy dew , Dipp'd in the richest tincture of the skies , Where light disports in ever - mingling dies ; While every beam new transient colours flings ...
... light , Loose to the wind their airy garments flew , Thin glittering textures of the filmy dew , Dipp'd in the richest tincture of the skies , Where light disports in ever - mingling dies ; While every beam new transient colours flings ...
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Seite 201 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Seite 104 - Placed 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 reasoning but to err...
Seite 83 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home ; Here thou, great Anna ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court ; In various talk th...
Seite 103 - Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part ; As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart...
Seite 421 - How loved, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
Seite 61 - Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind, Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe and levelled by the roller.
Seite 392 - Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing ! that acting either part, The trifling head or the corrupted heart, Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord.
Seite 434 - FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun...
Seite 61 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden observes the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Seite 97 - AWAKE, my ST JOHN ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot, Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.