The poetical works of Alexander Pope, ed. with notes and intr. memoir by A.W. Ward1869 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 85
Page x
... honoured because he so circumspectly abstained from being of vital service to any , Sir William Temple , alone had a ... honour was hardly taken into account as a secondary consideration , and the national wishes so little consulted that ...
... honoured because he so circumspectly abstained from being of vital service to any , Sir William Temple , alone had a ... honour was hardly taken into account as a secondary consideration , and the national wishes so little consulted that ...
Page xv
... honour of their minor divinities with the measured oscillations of drilled acolytes ; and even a Wharton had his poet - in - ordinary . The amatory verse of the age is perhaps the most unnatural that has ever been written ; instead of ...
... honour of their minor divinities with the measured oscillations of drilled acolytes ; and even a Wharton had his poet - in - ordinary . The amatory verse of the age is perhaps the most unnatural that has ever been written ; instead of ...
Page xxi
... honour himself by offering a pension to Pope which the latter , equally to his honour , declined ; —to Lord Somers , a venerated chief of the same party , the Whigs ; —and among the acknowledged leaders of literature to the popular ...
... honour himself by offering a pension to Pope which the latter , equally to his honour , declined ; —to Lord Somers , a venerated chief of the same party , the Whigs ; —and among the acknowledged leaders of literature to the popular ...
Page xxvi
... honour of Swift , for whose name Martin had been sub- stituted as a humorous synonym by Lord Oxford , whence the appellation of Martinus Scribblerus1 . The burlesque writings with which this club amused itself were subordinated to a ...
... honour of Swift , for whose name Martin had been sub- stituted as a humorous synonym by Lord Oxford , whence the appellation of Martinus Scribblerus1 . The burlesque writings with which this club amused itself were subordinated to a ...
Page xxxii
... honour who adorned the court of the Princess of Wales ( where he was a frequent visitor at the time of his residence at Chiswick ) were delighted by the flatteries of his versatile wit . And rather later , from 1722 to ' 3 , a passing ...
... honour who adorned the court of the Princess of Wales ( where he was a frequent visitor at the time of his residence at Chiswick ) were delighted by the flatteries of his versatile wit . And rather later , from 1722 to ' 3 , a passing ...
Other editions - View all
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Ed. with Notes and Intr. Memoir by A.W ... Alexander Pope No preview available - 2017 |
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Ed. With Notes and Intr. Memoir by A.W ... Alexander Pope No preview available - 2018 |
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Ed. with Notes and Intr. Memoir by A.W ... Alexander Pope No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
ancient appears bear Book born cause character charms Court Critics death died Dunciad edition English Epistle equal Essay ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fall fame fate father fire fool give grace hand happy head heart heav'n honour imitation Italy kind King Lady laws learned less letters light lines literary live Lord lost means mind Moral Muse Nature never o'er once original Passion person play poem poet poetry political poor Pope Pope's pow'r praise pride published Queen reason rest rise round rules Satire sense shade soul spirit Swift taste thee things thou thought thousand thro translation true turns verse Virtue Warburton Warton whole wife write written youth
Popular passages
Page 45 - Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Page 92 - How lov'd, 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 ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Page 77 - Form a strong line about the silver bound, And guard the wide circumference around. 'Whatever spirit, careless of his charge, His post neglects, or leaves the fair at large, Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins, Be...
Page 195 - 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. Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest; The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 235 - twould a Saint provoke, (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke) No, let a charming Chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — «<• And— Betty— give this Cheek a little Red.
Page 200 - 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, As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns; To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 283 - Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : 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 awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these if length of days attend.
Page 57 - Some to Conceit alone their taste confine, And glitt'ring thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus, unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art.
Page 277 - While wits and templars ev'ry sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise—- Who but must laugh, if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he ? What tho' my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaister'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Page 58 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.