The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeMacmillan, 1879 - 505 pages |
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... honour of Swift , for whose name Martin had been sub- stituted as a humorous synonym by Lord Oxford , whence the appellation of Martinus Scribblerus . The burlesque writings with which this club amused itself were subordinated to a very ...
... honour of Swift , for whose name Martin had been sub- stituted as a humorous synonym by Lord Oxford , whence the appellation of Martinus Scribblerus . The burlesque writings with which this club amused itself were subordinated to a very ...
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... 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 ...
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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.