The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeMacmillan, 1879 - 505 pages |
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Page xi
... Muse ; and though Congreve still remained an authority on account of the wit with which he had relieved the sameness of his dramatic fare , the ruder , but equally creative , Wycherley was fain to make a desperate attempt to eke out his ...
... Muse ; and though Congreve still remained an authority on account of the wit with which he had relieved the sameness of his dramatic fare , the ruder , but equally creative , Wycherley was fain to make a desperate attempt to eke out his ...
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... Muse . He will write to please , but to please a difficult public . He will therefore be master of that nicely chosen kind of allusions which is transparent to the educated intelligence ; avoiding illustrations either commonplace or far ...
... Muse . He will write to please , but to please a difficult public . He will therefore be master of that nicely chosen kind of allusions which is transparent to the educated intelligence ; avoiding illustrations either commonplace or far ...
Page xxi
... muse to regions already meted out by trustworthy predecessors , ' prescribed her heights and pruned her tender wing1 . ' ' The best of the modern poets in all languages , ' wrote Walsh to Pope in 1706 , ' are those that have the nearest ...
... muse to regions already meted out by trustworthy predecessors , ' prescribed her heights and pruned her tender wing1 . ' ' The best of the modern poets in all languages , ' wrote Walsh to Pope in 1706 , ' are those that have the nearest ...
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... Muse her slender reed inspire , Till in your native shades1 you tune the lyre : So when the Nightingale to rest removes , The Thrush may chant to the forsaken groves , But , charm'd to silence , listens while she sings , And all th ...
... Muse her slender reed inspire , Till in your native shades1 you tune the lyre : So when the Nightingale to rest removes , The Thrush may chant to the forsaken groves , But , charm'd to silence , listens while she sings , And all th ...
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... Muse's early lays , That adds this wreath of Ivy to thy Bays ; Hear what from Love unpractis'd hearts endure , From ... Muses , in what lawn or grove , While your Alexis pines in hopeless love ? [ Thame . Spenser repeatedly uses this ...
... Muse's early lays , That adds this wreath of Ivy to thy Bays ; Hear what from Love unpractis'd hearts endure , From ... Muses , in what lawn or grove , While your Alexis pines in hopeless love ? [ Thame . Spenser repeatedly uses this ...
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Page 56 - In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend ; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due. As men of breeding, sometimes men of wit, T...
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 201 - The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer...
Page 56 - In wit, as Nature, what affects our hearts Is not th' exactness of peculiar parts; 'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome, (The world's just wonder, and ev'n thine, O Rome!) No single parts unequally surprise, All comes united to th' admiring eyes; No monstrous height, or breadth or length appear; The whole at once is bold and regular.
Page 55 - While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind : But more...
Page 193 - 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 258 - To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the column, or the arch to bend, To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot.
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 221 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 206 - 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.