The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With Memoir and NotesAmerican News Company, 1899 - 485 pages |
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... twas fit , Who conquered nature should preside o'er wit . Horace still charms with graceful negligence , And without method talks us into sense ; Will , like a friend , familiarly convey The truest notions in the easiest way . He , who ...
... twas fit , Who conquered nature should preside o'er wit . Horace still charms with graceful negligence , And without method talks us into sense ; Will , like a friend , familiarly convey The truest notions in the easiest way . He , who ...
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... Twas he had summoned to her silent bed The morning - dream that hover'd o'er her head ; A youth more glittering than a birth - night beau ( That e'en in slumber caused her cheek to glow , Seem'd to her ear his winning lips to lay , And ...
... Twas he had summoned to her silent bed The morning - dream that hover'd o'er her head ; A youth more glittering than a birth - night beau ( That e'en in slumber caused her cheek to glow , Seem'd to her ear his winning lips to lay , And ...
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... Twas then , Belinda , if report say true , Thy eyes first open'd on a billet - doux ; Wounds , charms , and ardours , were no sooner read , But all the vision vanish'd from thy head . And now , unveil'd , the toilet stands display'd ...
... Twas then , Belinda , if report say true , Thy eyes first open'd on a billet - doux ; Wounds , charms , and ardours , were no sooner read , But all the vision vanish'd from thy head . And now , unveil'd , the toilet stands display'd ...
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... Twas this the morning omens seem'd to tell , Thrice from my trembling hand the patch - box fell ; The tottering China shook without a wind , Nay , Poll sat mute , and Shock was most unkind ! A sylph , too , warn'd me of the threats of ...
... Twas this the morning omens seem'd to tell , Thrice from my trembling hand the patch - box fell ; The tottering China shook without a wind , Nay , Poll sat mute , and Shock was most unkind ! A sylph , too , warn'd me of the threats of ...
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... twas not much to bid one kind adieu , ( At least to feign was never hard to you ; ) Farewell , my Lesbian love , you might have said ; Or coldly , thus , Farewell , O Lesbian maid ! No tear did you , no parting kiss receive , Nor knew I ...
... twas not much to bid one kind adieu , ( At least to feign was never hard to you ; ) Farewell , my Lesbian love , you might have said ; Or coldly , thus , Farewell , O Lesbian maid ! No tear did you , no parting kiss receive , Nor knew I ...
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Page 213 - Heaven from all creatures hides the Book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer Being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 219 - Chaos of Thought and Passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Page 224 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 68 - 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 her prayers, or miss a masquerade; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball ; Or whether Heaven has doomed that Shock must fall.
Page 214 - Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar ; Wait the great teacher Death ; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that Hope to be thy blessing now.
Page 69 - 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.
Page 50 - But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough with them is right or wrong . In the bright Muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine but the music there. These equal syllables alone require...
Page 26 - See, a long race thy spacious courts adorn; See future sons, and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks on every side arise, Demanding life, impatient for the skies...
Page 218 - All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, whatever is, is right.
Page 218 - 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...