The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeD. Appleton, 1869 - 485 pages |
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... painful dreams , and wished somebody would hang him . In rather more than five years the formidable work was completed , and met with a success hitherto unexampled in this country , having brought him a profit somewhat exceeding five ...
... painful dreams , and wished somebody would hang him . In rather more than five years the formidable work was completed , and met with a success hitherto unexampled in this country , having brought him a profit somewhat exceeding five ...
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... pain , is his sensitiveness to injury , either real or imagined ; yet it is to this disposition that our language is indebted for the finest models of a keen and polished satire . As he was violent in his animosities , so he was ardent ...
... pain , is his sensitiveness to injury , either real or imagined ; yet it is to this disposition that our language is indebted for the finest models of a keen and polished satire . As he was violent in his animosities , so he was ardent ...
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... pain at last , that those about him could not distinguish the time at which he expired . On receiving the last sacraments from the priest , he said , " There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship , and indeed ...
... pain at last , that those about him could not distinguish the time at which he expired . On receiving the last sacraments from the priest , he said , " There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship , and indeed ...
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... pains are spared , no profusion of ornament , no splendour of poetic diction , to set off the meanest things . The balance between the concealed irony and the assumed gravity is as nicely trimmed as the balance of power in Europe . You ...
... pains are spared , no profusion of ornament , no splendour of poetic diction , to set off the meanest things . The balance between the concealed irony and the assumed gravity is as nicely trimmed as the balance of power in Europe . You ...
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... pains , and employ more time , cannot fail to produce more com- plete pieces . They constantly applied themselves not only to that art , but to that single branch of an art , to which their talent was most powerfully bent ; and it was ...
... pains , and employ more time , cannot fail to produce more com- plete pieces . They constantly applied themselves not only to that art , but to that single branch of an art , to which their talent was most powerfully bent ; and it was ...
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Page 53 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes; Where'er you find 'the cooling western breeze...
Page 223 - See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high, progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing.
Page 292 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 218 - 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.
Page 219 - 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 220 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 218 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights explore, Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar ; Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise ; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can ; But vindicate the ways of God to Man.
Page 365 - 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.
Page 24 - Swift fly the years, and rise th' expected morn ! Oh spring to light, auspicious Babe, be born ! See, Nature hastes her earliest wreaths to bring, With all the incense of the breathing spring: See lofty Lebanon his head advance, See nodding forests on the mountains dance : See spicy clouds from lowly Saron rise, And Carmel's flowery top perfumes the skies!
Page 43 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground.