The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeW.P. Nimmo, 1878 - 448 pages |
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... Wife of Bath , ELOISA TO ABELARD , · 242 259 · 269 Phryne , . VI . DR SWIFT - The Happy Life of a Country Parson , VII . CHAUCER - The Temple of Fame , • PAGE EPISTLES- Epistle to Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl xxviii CONTENTS .
... Wife of Bath , ELOISA TO ABELARD , · 242 259 · 269 Phryne , . VI . DR SWIFT - The Happy Life of a Country Parson , VII . CHAUCER - The Temple of Fame , • PAGE EPISTLES- Epistle to Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl xxviii CONTENTS .
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... wife : As well as dream such trifles are assign'd , As toys and empires , for a godlike mind . Rewards , that either would to virtue bring No joy , or be destructive of the thing : How oft by these at sixty are undone The virtues of a ...
... wife : As well as dream such trifles are assign'd , As toys and empires , for a godlike mind . Rewards , that either would to virtue bring No joy , or be destructive of the thing : How oft by these at sixty are undone The virtues of a ...
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... , or on Gripus ' wife . If parts allure thee , think how Bacon shined , The wisest , brightest , meanest of mankind : Or ravish'd with the whistling of a name , See Cromwell , damn'd to everlasting fame ! If all AN ESSAY ON MAN . 37.
... , or on Gripus ' wife . If parts allure thee , think how Bacon shined , The wisest , brightest , meanest of mankind : Or ravish'd with the whistling of a name , See Cromwell , damn'd to everlasting fame ! If all AN ESSAY ON MAN . 37.
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... wife , The trophied arches , storied halls invade , And haunt their slumbers in the pompous shade . Alas ! not dazzled with their noontide ray , Compute the morn and evening to the day ; The whole amount of that enormous fame , A tale ...
... wife , The trophied arches , storied halls invade , And haunt their slumbers in the pompous shade . Alas ! not dazzled with their noontide ray , Compute the morn and evening to the day ; The whole amount of that enormous fame , A tale ...
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... wife . ' Tis more to guide , than spur the Muses ' steed ; Restrain his fury , than provoke his speed ; The winged courser , like a generous horse , Shews most true mettle when you check his course . Those RULES of old discover'd , not ...
... wife . ' Tis more to guide , than spur the Muses ' steed ; Restrain his fury , than provoke his speed ; The winged courser , like a generous horse , Shews most true mettle when you check his course . Those RULES of old discover'd , not ...
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Æneid ancient bard Bavius beauty behold bless blest breast breath bright Charles Gildon charms Cibber court cried critics crown'd Cynthus divine dull Dulness Dunciad e'er eclogue Essay on Criticism eyes fair fame fate fire fix'd flames flowers fools genius gentle give glory goddess gods grace groves happy hath head heart Heaven hero Homer honour Iliad John Dennis kings learn'd learned Leonard Welsted live lord Matthew Concanen mind muse nature ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er once passion pastoral plain pleased pleasure poem poet Pope praise pride proud queen rage reign rise round sacred Sappho satire sense shade shew shine sighs silvan sing skies soft soul sylphs tears Thalestris thee Theocritus thine things thou thought throne trembling Twas verse Virgil virtue wings write youth
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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!