The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorJ.J. Woodward, 1841 - 484 pages |
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... fear , neither joy nor sorrow , can be found : This notion of representative metre , and the the poet , however , faithfully attends us : we have desire of discovering frequent adaptations of the all that can be performed by elegance of ...
... fear , neither joy nor sorrow , can be found : This notion of representative metre , and the the poet , however , faithfully attends us : we have desire of discovering frequent adaptations of the all that can be performed by elegance of ...
Page xl
... fear'd he might outvie Her works ; and dying , fears herself may die . Of this epitaph the first couplet is good , the se- cond not bad , the third is deformed with a broken metaphor , the word crowned not being applicable to the ...
... fear'd he might outvie Her works ; and dying , fears herself may die . Of this epitaph the first couplet is good , the se- cond not bad , the third is deformed with a broken metaphor , the word crowned not being applicable to the ...
Page xli
... fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied , Thank'd heaven that he lived , and that he died . The next line is inharmonious in its sound , and mean in its conception ; the opposition is obvious , and the word lash used ...
... fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied , Thank'd heaven that he lived , and that he died . The next line is inharmonious in its sound , and mean in its conception ; the opposition is obvious , and the word lash used ...
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... fear I have prejudiced them by my management , I shall subjoin the passages of Isaiah , and those of Virgil , un ... fears . He shall govern the earth in peace , with the virtues of his father ' ven Isaiah , ch vii ver . 14. - Behold a ...
... fear I have prejudiced them by my management , I shall subjoin the passages of Isaiah , and those of Virgil , un ... fears . He shall govern the earth in peace , with the virtues of his father ' ven Isaiah , ch vii ver . 14. - Behold a ...
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... fear a dearth in these flagitious times . No pardon vile obscenity should find , Though wit and art conspire to move your mind ; But dulness with obscenity must prove As shameful sure as impotence in love . In the fat age of pleasure ...
... fear a dearth in these flagitious times . No pardon vile obscenity should find , Though wit and art conspire to move your mind ; But dulness with obscenity must prove As shameful sure as impotence in love . In the fat age of pleasure ...
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