The Works of Alexander Pope ...W. P. Hazard, 1856 - 504 pages |
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... fate in poetry , it is ten to one but he must give up all the reasonable aims of life for it . There are indeed some advantages accruing from a genius to poetry , and they are all I can think of : the agreeable power of self - amusement ...
... fate in poetry , it is ten to one but he must give up all the reasonable aims of life for it . There are indeed some advantages accruing from a genius to poetry , and they are all I can think of : the agreeable power of self - amusement ...
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... fate of Cassandra ; I gave no credit to his prediction , till in time I saw it accom- plished . The shafts of satire were directed equally in vain against Cibber and Osborne ; being repelled by the impenetrable impudence of one , and ...
... fate of Cassandra ; I gave no credit to his prediction , till in time I saw it accom- plished . The shafts of satire were directed equally in vain against Cibber and Osborne ; being repelled by the impenetrable impudence of one , and ...
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... fate does not leave the mind in hopeless dejection ; for they both found quiet and consolation in retirement and piety . So new and so affecting is their story , that it supersedes invention ; and imagination ranges at full liberty ...
... fate does not leave the mind in hopeless dejection ; for they both found quiet and consolation in retirement and piety . So new and so affecting is their story , that it supersedes invention ; and imagination ranges at full liberty ...
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... fates have wrapp'd in night . Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law , Or some frail China jar receive a flaw , Or stain her honour , or her new brocade ; Forget ... fate . CANTO III . CLOSE by those meads , for ever 82 RAPE OF THE LOCK .
... fates have wrapp'd in night . Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law , Or some frail China jar receive a flaw , Or stain her honour , or her new brocade ; Forget ... fate . CANTO III . CLOSE by those meads , for ever 82 RAPE OF THE LOCK .
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... fate , more hard , Gain'd but one trump and one plebeian card . With his broad sabre next , a chief in years , The hoary majesty of Spades appears ; Puts forth one manly leg , to sight reveal'd ; The rest , his many - colour'd robe ...
... fate , more hard , Gain'd but one trump and one plebeian card . With his broad sabre next , a chief in years , The hoary majesty of Spades appears ; Puts forth one manly leg , to sight reveal'd ; The rest , his many - colour'd robe ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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!
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.