The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others: To which Were Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks, Band 6C. and J. Rivington, 1824 |
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... deep design , And pour new lustre on the glowing line . Yet deign to hear the efforts of a Muse , Whose eye , not wing , his ardent flight pursues : Intent from this great archetype to draw 25 SATIRE'S bright 5 PART I.
... deep design , And pour new lustre on the glowing line . Yet deign to hear the efforts of a Muse , Whose eye , not wing , his ardent flight pursues : Intent from this great archetype to draw 25 SATIRE'S bright 5 PART I.
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... Muse a vain imagined power , Tho ' oft she mourn those ills she cannot cure . 100 The worthy court her , and the worthless fear ; Who shun her piercing eye , that eye revere . Her awful voice the vain and vile obey , And every foe to ...
... Muse a vain imagined power , Tho ' oft she mourn those ills she cannot cure . 100 The worthy court her , and the worthless fear ; Who shun her piercing eye , that eye revere . Her awful voice the vain and vile obey , And every foe to ...
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... Muse's fatal skill ; Well may they tremble when she draws her quill ; Her magic quill , that like ITHURIEL's spear , 135 Reveals the cloven hoof , or lengthen'd ear ; Bids Vice and Folly take their natural shapes , Turns duchesses to ...
... Muse's fatal skill ; Well may they tremble when she draws her quill ; Her magic quill , that like ITHURIEL's spear , 135 Reveals the cloven hoof , or lengthen'd ear ; Bids Vice and Folly take their natural shapes , Turns duchesses to ...
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... Muse's charms resistless then assail , When wrapp'd in Irony's transparent veil : 260 Her beauties half conceal'd , the more surprize , 265 And keener lustre sparkles in her eyes . Then be your line with sharp encomiums graced : Style ...
... Muse's charms resistless then assail , When wrapp'd in Irony's transparent veil : 260 Her beauties half conceal'd , the more surprize , 265 And keener lustre sparkles in her eyes . Then be your line with sharp encomiums graced : Style ...
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... Muse's aid ; When crimes , which erst in kindred darkness lay , Rise frontless , and insult the eye of day , Indignant Hymen veils his hallow'd fires , And white - robed Chastity with tears retires ; When rank Adultery on the genial bed ...
... Muse's aid ; When crimes , which erst in kindred darkness lay , Rise frontless , and insult the eye of day , Indignant Hymen veils his hallow'd fires , And white - robed Chastity with tears retires ; When rank Adultery on the genial bed ...
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The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by Himself ... Alexander Pope Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Addison admirable alludes atque Augustus Ben Jonson Bishop Boileau Bolingbroke Bowles called character corruption court Cùm Dialogue divine Donne Dryden Dunciad Earl Elijah Fenton Epistle father flatterers folly fool genius give grace heart honest honour Horace Houyhnhnm humour imitation king Lady laugh learned letter libels lines live Lord Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke Lord Cornbury Lucilius malè manner mihi minister moral Muse nature ne'er never NOTES numbers nunc o'er original passage person Pindaric pleased poem poet poet's poetry Pope Pope's praise quæ Queen Quid quod racter rage rhyme ridicule Sappho satire says sense shew Sir Robert Walpole smile soul spirit style Swift tamen taste tell thee thing thou thought tibi tion translation truth Twickenham verse vice virtue virtue's Voltaire Warburton Warton Whig words writ write wrote
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 177 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Seite 82 - Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all seesaw, between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis.
Seite 41 - A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross?
Seite 36 - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky!
Seite 40 - tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Seite 75 - Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do:) Maintain a Poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please : Above a Patron, tho...
Seite 414 - ... male necne Lepos saltet; sed quod magis ad nos pertinet et nescire malum est agitamus: utrumne divitiis homines an sint virtute beati; quidve ad amicitias, usus rectumne, trahat nos; 75 et quae sit natura boni summumque quid eius.
Seite 464 - So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along : But such is thy avarice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must have starved, and the poet have died. THE BALANCE OF EUROPE. Now Europe balanced, neither side prevails ; For nothing's left in either of the scales.
Seite 81 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings...
Seite 63 - 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, Alike...