 me live, or die unknown: Oh ! grant an honest fame, or grant me none ! " THIS poem contains great strokes of Gothic imagination, yet bordering often on the most ideal and capricious extravagance. The poet, in a vision, sees a temple of glass; ' In which...  The Works of Alexander Pope - Page 92by Alexander Pope - 1822Full view - About this book
 | John Wolcot - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...Heaven! to scorn the guilty bays, Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise; Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!'' A PASTORAL ELEGY, ON THE DEATH OF JACKSON, THE MUSICAL COMPOSER. O SHEPHERDS! 't is CGRYDON'S knell,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 pages
...Then teach me, Heav'nI to scorn the guilt) Drive from my breast that wretched lust of Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown : Oh ! grant an honest fame, or grant me non END OF VOLUME I. !H at "5 B ^ W U J a a, M 5 O r ^ I? M Z U 3! H H z B H as ^j Q H U Z B a B b... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 pages
...allegory ; and the two last shew theman of honour and virtue, ¿ as well as the poet: Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown: Oh grant an honest fame, or grant me none! In finishing this Section, we may observe, that POPE'S alterations of Chaucer are intro¿ duced with... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...rash ambition ra -~ fend youth, a candidate for praise - —vt void of hones I car -.uiiiish'd let me live, or die unknown Oh grant an honest fame, or grant me noi n WINDSOR- FOREST. T To the Right Hon. George Lord Lansi HHY forest, Windsor! aud thy green rei... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 220 pages
...me, heav'n! to scorn the guilty baj Drive from my breast that wretched lust of prais Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown: Oh! grant an honest fame, or grant me none! BSD OF VOLUME I. • • . REFERENCE DEPARTMENT This book is under no circumstances tc taken from the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 356 pages
...heav'n ! to scorn the guilty bays, Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise ; Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown ; Oh ! grant an honest fame, or grant me none ! JANUARY AND MAY; OR, THE MERCHANT'S TALE. FROM CHAUCER. JANUARY AND MAY. T^HERE liv'd in Lombardy,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1819 - 396 pages
...Heav'n! to scorn the guilty bays, Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise ; IJnblemish'd let me live, or die unknown : Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!' EPISTLES. ROBERT EARL OF OXFORD .tf.VD MOK TIMER* SUCH were the notes thy once-lov'd poet sung. Till... | |
 | Classical philology - 1821 - 466 pages
...me, Heaven, to scorn the guilty bays, Drive from my soul the wretched lust of praise. Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown : Oh ! grant an honest fame, or grant me none !" PS I am informed that Dr. B. meditates an original compilation, after the manner of Polyajnus, to... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...Heaven! to scorn the guilty bays, Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise; Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown : Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none !' JANUARY AND MAY. FROM CHAUCER. There lived in Lonibardy, as authors write, In days of old, a wise... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...Heaven! to scorn the guilty bays, Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise; TJnblemish'd let me live, or die unknown: Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!' P2 JANUARY AND MAY. FROM CHAUCER. THERE lived in Lombardy, as authors write, In days of old, a wise... | |
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