The Works of Alexander Pope, Band 3J. Murray, 1881 |
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... praise . He was in a higher class . He was one of the noblest works of God . He was an honest Man . A man who alone possessed more real virtue than in very corrupt times , needing a satirist like him , will sometimes fall to the share ...
... praise . He was in a higher class . He was one of the noblest works of God . He was an honest Man . A man who alone possessed more real virtue than in very corrupt times , needing a satirist like him , will sometimes fall to the share ...
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... praise shall be depreciated ironi- cally , and in the same manner that modern critics take to undervalue works of value , and to commend the high pro- ductions of Grub Street . ' This was a general scheme , quite in Arbuthnot's manner ...
... praise shall be depreciated ironi- cally , and in the same manner that modern critics take to undervalue works of value , and to commend the high pro- ductions of Grub Street . ' This was a general scheme , quite in Arbuthnot's manner ...
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... praise , That if he pleased , he pleased by manly ways . That flattery , even to kings , he held a shame , And thought a lie in verse or prose the same ; That not in fancy's maze he wandered long , But stooped to truth , and moralised ...
... praise , That if he pleased , he pleased by manly ways . That flattery , even to kings , he held a shame , And thought a lie in verse or prose the same ; That not in fancy's maze he wandered long , But stooped to truth , and moralised ...
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... praise , ' and base his repu- tation on his honesty and virtue , rather than on his poetical genius , do him an ill service . The evidence is against them ; after the publication of the Caryll correspondence , it is im- possible any ...
... praise , ' and base his repu- tation on his honesty and virtue , rather than on his poetical genius , do him an ill service . The evidence is against them ; after the publication of the Caryll correspondence , it is im- possible any ...
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... praise ; and for the same reason he has for nearly five generations continued to be a favourite poet with thousands who have no taste for ' refined analysis and complex psychology . ' Surely the reputation of a writer who has such a ...
... praise ; and for the same reason he has for nearly five generations continued to be a favourite poet with thousands who have no taste for ' refined analysis and complex psychology . ' Surely the reputation of a writer who has such a ...
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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.