The Works of Alexander Pope, Band 3J. Murray, 1881 |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 59
Seite x
... Head Master of Wellington College , has been good enough to revise some interpretations of difficult passages in Horace , which I submitted to his judg- ment ; and Mr. E. Ford , of Old Park , Enfield , has given me several valuable ...
... Head Master of Wellington College , has been good enough to revise some interpretations of difficult passages in Horace , which I submitted to his judg- ment ; and Mr. E. Ford , of Old Park , Enfield , has given me several valuable ...
Seite 4
... head , and so I write . Imitation of Horace , Sat. i . 2 , 14 . At another moment he protests that he resorts to it only in self - defence : Peace is my dear delight , not Fleury's more , But touch me , and no minister so sore . - Ibid ...
... head , and so I write . Imitation of Horace , Sat. i . 2 , 14 . At another moment he protests that he resorts to it only in self - defence : Peace is my dear delight , not Fleury's more , But touch me , and no minister so sore . - Ibid ...
Seite 30
... head , The blow unfelt , the tears he never shed , The tale revived , the lie so oft o'erthrown , The imputed trash and dulness not his own ; The morals blackened when the writings ' scape , The libelled person , and the pictured shape ...
... head , The blow unfelt , the tears he never shed , The tale revived , the lie so oft o'erthrown , The imputed trash and dulness not his own ; The morals blackened when the writings ' scape , The libelled person , and the pictured shape ...
Seite 34
... head - gear , was an attempt to give a dignified or full - dress appearance to the average prosaic human being . Having this innate weakness of pomposity and exaggeration , it naturally expired , and became altogether ridiculous , with ...
... head - gear , was an attempt to give a dignified or full - dress appearance to the average prosaic human being . Having this innate weakness of pomposity and exaggeration , it naturally expired , and became altogether ridiculous , with ...
Seite 51
... heads of his argument in a somewhat aphoristic fashion , but , in the original form of the poem , this does not produce a disagreeable effect . Warburton's transpositions are certainly very ingenious ; one or two are fortunate ...
... heads of his argument in a somewhat aphoristic fashion , but , in the original form of the poem , this does not produce a disagreeable effect . Warburton's transpositions are certainly very ingenious ; one or two are fortunate ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Addison afterwards Alluding allusion appears Arbuthnot Atossa Balaam beauty Bishop Blount Boileau Bolingbroke Book called character Chauncy Cibber Clodio couplet Court Craggs CROKER death Dialogue died Donne doubt Dryden Duchess of Buckingham Duchess of Marlborough Duke Dunciad Earl edition Epilogue Epistle eyes fame folio fool genius give grace heart honour Horace Walpole III.-POETRY Imitation of Horace King knave Lady M. W. Lady Mary letter libels lines live Lord Bathurst Lord Burlington Lord Hervey Marchmont mean Montagu Moral Essays Muse nature never noble o'er original passage passion person poem poet poet's poetical poetry poor Pope says Pope's praise Prince printed published Queen rhyme rich ridicule Sappho satire seems sense soul style Swift taste tell things thought tion town truth verses virtue Walpole Warburton Warton Whig wife word write written
Beliebte Passagen
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.