The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks, Volume 6J. Rivington, 1824 - English literature |
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... persons with whom he was acquainted , and the scenes and circumstances by which he was surrounded ; but in the present ... person can divest himself of that morbid sensibility which trembles at the touch of praise or cen- sure , and has ...
... persons with whom he was acquainted , and the scenes and circumstances by which he was surrounded ; but in the present ... person can divest himself of that morbid sensibility which trembles at the touch of praise or cen- sure , and has ...
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... person with our own , to trace the same opinions , to acknowledge the same faults and follies , to discover in what we differ , as well as in what we agree , and to know more even of ourselves than we could ever have discovered by our ...
... person with our own , to trace the same opinions , to acknowledge the same faults and follies , to discover in what we differ , as well as in what we agree , and to know more even of ourselves than we could ever have discovered by our ...
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... person , be- ing , by nature , timorous and suspicious ; by education , a party- man ; and , by circumstances of ... person's reputation . And all this , with as little provocation from Mr. Pope's conduct in his poetic , as in his civil ...
... person , be- ing , by nature , timorous and suspicious ; by education , a party- man ; and , by circumstances of ... person's reputation . And all this , with as little provocation from Mr. Pope's conduct in his poetic , as in his civil ...
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... persons of rank and fortune [ the authors of Verses to the Imi- tator of Horace , and of an Epistle to a Doctor of ... person , morals , and family , whereof , to those who know me not , a truer information may be requisite . Being ...
... persons of rank and fortune [ the authors of Verses to the Imi- tator of Horace , and of an Epistle to a Doctor of ... person , morals , and family , whereof , to those who know me not , a truer information may be requisite . Being ...
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... person and a king , ) His very minister who spied them first , ( Some say his queen , ) was forced to speak or burst . NOTES . 70 Ver . 69. ' Tis sung when Midas ' , & c . ] The poet means , sung by Persius ; and the words alluded to ...
... person and a king , ) His very minister who spied them first , ( Some say his queen , ) was forced to speak or burst . NOTES . 70 Ver . 69. ' Tis sung when Midas ' , & c . ] The poet means , sung by Persius ; and the words alluded to ...
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Page 177 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 41 - A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross?
Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 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...
Page 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. VOL. V. K THE BALANCE OF EUROPE. Now Europe balanced, neither side prevails ; For nothing's left in either of the scales.
Page 81 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings...
Page 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...
Page 46 - He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew: Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain, The creature's at his dirty work again...
Page 388 - Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me : Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon ! left for Truth's defence, Sole dread of folly, vice, and insolence ! To all but Heaven-directed hands denied, The Muse may give thee, but the gods must guide.