The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeW.P. Nimmo, 1878 - 448 pages |
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... fool , a thing . " Let us take the initial letter of his Christian name and the initial and final letter of his surname - viz . , A. P. E , and they give you the same idea of an ape as his face . It is my duty to pull off the lion's ...
... fool , a thing . " Let us take the initial letter of his Christian name and the initial and final letter of his surname - viz . , A. P. E , and they give you the same idea of an ape as his face . It is my duty to pull off the lion's ...
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... giddy circles run , And turn their heads to imitate the sun . Go , teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule- Then drop into thyself , and be a fool ! Superior beings , when of late they saw A mortal 18 POPE'S POEMS . Epistle II.
... giddy circles run , And turn their heads to imitate the sun . Go , teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule- Then drop into thyself , and be a fool ! Superior beings , when of late they saw A mortal 18 POPE'S POEMS . Epistle II.
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... fools , at war about a name , Have full as oft no meaning , or the same . Self - love and reason to one end aspire , Pain their aversion , pleasure their desire ; But greedy That , its object would devour , This taste the honey , and ...
... fools , at war about a name , Have full as oft no meaning , or the same . Self - love and reason to one end aspire , Pain their aversion , pleasure their desire ; But greedy That , its object would devour , This taste the honey , and ...
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... fools ? Teach us to mourn our nature , not to mend , A sharp accuser , but a helpless friend ! Or from a judge turn pleader , to persuade The choice we make , or justify it made ; Proud of an easy conquest all along , She but removes ...
... fools ? Teach us to mourn our nature , not to mend , A sharp accuser , but a helpless friend ! Or from a judge turn pleader , to persuade The choice we make , or justify it made ; Proud of an easy conquest all along , She but removes ...
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... Fools ! who from hence into the notion fall , That vice or virtue there is none at all . If white and black blend , soften , and unite A thousand ways , is there no black or white ? Ask your own heart , and nothing is so plain ; " Tis ...
... Fools ! who from hence into the notion fall , That vice or virtue there is none at all . If white and black blend , soften , and unite A thousand ways , is there no black or white ? Ask your own heart , and nothing is so plain ; " Tis ...
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Page 320 - Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, 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...
Page 22 - 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.
Page 197 - FATHER of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! Thou Great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind...
Page 13 - Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Page 18 - Created half to rise, and half to fall ; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world...
Page 194 - Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound. As the good shepherd tends his fleecy care, Seeks freshest pasture, and the purest air, Explores the lost, the wandering sheep directs, By day o'ersees them, and by night protects; The tender lambs he raises in his arms, Feeds from his hand, and in his bosom warms: Thus shall mankind his guardian care engage, The promised Father of the future age.
Page 320 - 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; View him with scornful, yev with jealous eyes.
Page 14 - Tis for mine : For me kind Nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower ; Annual for me the grape, the rose renew, The juice nectareous and the balmy dew ; For me the mine a thousand treasures brings ; For me health gushes from a thousand springs ; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise ; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
Page 11 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Page 156 - Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise! While, at each change, the son of Libyan Jove Now burns with glory, and then melts with love; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found. And the world's victor stood subdued by sound!