The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorJ.J. Woodward, 1830 - 442 pages |
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... E'en the wild heath displays her purple dyes , And ' midst the desert , fruitful fields arise , That , crown'd with tufted trees and springing corn , Like verdant isles the sable waste adorn . Let India boast her plants , nor envy we ...
... E'en the wild heath displays her purple dyes , And ' midst the desert , fruitful fields arise , That , crown'd with tufted trees and springing corn , Like verdant isles the sable waste adorn . Let India boast her plants , nor envy we ...
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... e'en the great find rest And blended lie the oppressor and the oppress'd ! Make sacred Charles's tomb for ever known ( Obscure the place , and uninscribed the stone :) Oh fact accursed ! what tears has Albion shed ? Heavens , what new ...
... e'en the great find rest And blended lie the oppressor and the oppress'd ! Make sacred Charles's tomb for ever known ( Obscure the place , and uninscribed the stone :) Oh fact accursed ! what tears has Albion shed ? Heavens , what new ...
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... E'en I more sweetly pass my careless days , Pleased in the silent shade with empty praise ; Enough for me , that to the listening swains First in these fields I sang the sylvan strains . ODE ON ST . CECILIA'S DAY , MDCCVIII . And other ...
... E'en I more sweetly pass my careless days , Pleased in the silent shade with empty praise ; Enough for me , that to the listening swains First in these fields I sang the sylvan strains . ODE ON ST . CECILIA'S DAY , MDCCVIII . And other ...
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... e'en in death Eurydice he sung : Eurydice still trembled on his tongue : Eurydice the woods , Eurydice the floods , Eurydice the rocks and hollow mountains rung . Music the fiercest grief can charm , And Fate's severest rage disarm ...
... e'en in death Eurydice he sung : Eurydice still trembled on his tongue : Eurydice the woods , Eurydice the floods , Eurydice the rocks and hollow mountains rung . Music the fiercest grief can charm , And Fate's severest rage disarm ...
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... e'en in them , seem faults , Some figures monstrous and mis - shaped appear , Consider'd singly , or beheld too near , Which , but proportion'd to their light or place , Due distance reconciles to form and grace . A prudent chief not ...
... e'en in them , seem faults , Some figures monstrous and mis - shaped appear , Consider'd singly , or beheld too near , Which , but proportion'd to their light or place , Due distance reconciles to form and grace . A prudent chief not ...
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Page 125 - 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 112 - What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do — This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heaven pursue.
Page 125 - And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying all abroad?
Page 102 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 60 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th...
Page 103 - All discord, harmony not understood ; All partial evil, universal good : And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, WHATEVER is, is RIGHT.
Page 112 - Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge Thy foe.
Page 64 - Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, Bibles, billet-doux. Now awful beauty puts on all its arms; The fair each moment rises in her charms, Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face; Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes.
Page 66 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home ; Here thou, great Anna ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court ; In various talk th...
Page 103 - Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent!