The Works of Alexander Pope, Band 3J. Murray, 1881 |
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... English literature has suffered by the loss of Mr. Elwin's patient and accurate investi- gations . I may , however , be permitted to hope that the reader , though he has been deprived of a know- ledge and judgment which cannot be ...
... English literature has suffered by the loss of Mr. Elwin's patient and accurate investi- gations . I may , however , be permitted to hope that the reader , though he has been deprived of a know- ledge and judgment which cannot be ...
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... English Men of Letters ' series , I have said more in my General Introduction , and while dissenting decidedly from some of his con- clusions , I gladly take the opportunity of acknow- ledging the advantage I have derived from the great ...
... English Men of Letters ' series , I have said more in my General Introduction , and while dissenting decidedly from some of his con- clusions , I gladly take the opportunity of acknow- ledging the advantage I have derived from the great ...
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... English classics . In Pope , then , we have to do with a remarkably complex character . It will not do simply to brand him as a hypocrite , for the essence of hypocrisy consists in unreality ; but behind the falsities of Pope there is ...
... English classics . In Pope , then , we have to do with a remarkably complex character . It will not do simply to brand him as a hypocrite , for the essence of hypocrisy consists in unreality ; but behind the falsities of Pope there is ...
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... English Men of Letters ' edited by Mr. John Morley . Mr. Stephen's admirable workmanship is well calculated to influence public opinion , and the fairness and moderation of his tone might make his verdict on the poet appear judicial ...
... English Men of Letters ' edited by Mr. John Morley . Mr. Stephen's admirable workmanship is well calculated to influence public opinion , and the fairness and moderation of his tone might make his verdict on the poet appear judicial ...
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... English language . Spenser , in ' Mother Hubbard's Tale , ' often anticipates the flow of Dryden ; and Hall , the first genuine English satirist , who also wrote under Elizabeth , D 2 INTRODUCTION . 35.
... English language . Spenser , in ' Mother Hubbard's Tale , ' often anticipates the flow of Dryden ; and Hall , the first genuine English satirist , who also wrote under Elizabeth , D 2 INTRODUCTION . 35.
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Seite 381 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
Seite 252 - View him with scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise, 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...
Seite 533 - He, who still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left: And he, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, Means not, but blunders round about a meaning...
Seite 118 - Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man ; but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin : and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Seite 150 - Of mimic statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to flatter, left of all his store ! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame ; this lord of useless thousands ends.
Seite 472 - Argyll, the state's whole thunder born to wield, And shake alike the senate and the field? Or Wyndham, just to freedom and the throne, The master of our passions and his own? Names which I long have...
Seite 530 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Seite 239 - Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song...
Seite 176 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Seite 91 - Nothing so true as what you once let fall, "Most women have no characters at all." Matter too soft a lasting mark to bear, And best distinguished by black, brown, or fair.