The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete : with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death : Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton, Volume 1Samuel A. Bascom, 1819 |
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... nature , that I was born with a love to poetry ; for nothing more conduces to fill up all the intervals of our time , or , if rightly used , to make the whole course of life entertaining . Cantantes licet usque ( minus via lædet ) ...
... nature , that I was born with a love to poetry ; for nothing more conduces to fill up all the intervals of our time , or , if rightly used , to make the whole course of life entertaining . Cantantes licet usque ( minus via lædet ) ...
Page xxiv
... Nature , Sense improv❜d by Sound . Unlike those Wits , whose numbers glide along So smooth , no thought e'er interrupts the song : Laboriously enervate they appear , And write not to the head , but to the ear : Our minds unmov'd and ...
... Nature , Sense improv❜d by Sound . Unlike those Wits , whose numbers glide along So smooth , no thought e'er interrupts the song : Laboriously enervate they appear , And write not to the head , but to the ear : Our minds unmov'd and ...
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... nature warm his heart , And all his projects stand inform'd with art ) Here clear the caves , there ope the leading vein ; The mines detected flame with gold again . 60 How vast , how copious , are thy new designs ! How ev'ry Music ...
... nature warm his heart , And all his projects stand inform'd with art ) Here clear the caves , there ope the leading vein ; The mines detected flame with gold again . 60 How vast , how copious , are thy new designs ! How ev'ry Music ...
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... natural to imagine , that the lei- sure of those ancient shepherds admitting and invit- ing some diversion , none was so proper to that solitary and sedentary life as singing ; and that in their songs they took occasion to celebrate ...
... natural to imagine , that the lei- sure of those ancient shepherds admitting and invit- ing some diversion , none was so proper to that solitary and sedentary life as singing ; and that in their songs they took occasion to celebrate ...
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... nature . The complete character of this Poem consists in sim- plicity , brevity , and delicacy ; the two first of which render an Eclogue natural , and the last delightful . If we would copy Nature , it may be useful to take this Idea ...
... nature . The complete character of this Poem consists in sim- plicity , brevity , and delicacy ; the two first of which render an Eclogue natural , and the last delightful . If we would copy Nature , it may be useful to take this Idea ...
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