The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeMacmillan, 1889 - 505 pages |
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Page iii
... once . The English Augustans were not warmed by the favour of any English Augustus . William the Deliverer , in whose reign they had grown up , had been without stomach for the literature of a nation with whose tastes and habits he had ...
... once . The English Augustans were not warmed by the favour of any English Augustus . William the Deliverer , in whose reign they had grown up , had been without stomach for the literature of a nation with whose tastes and habits he had ...
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... once . The English Augustans were not warmed by the favour of any English Augustus . William the Deliverer , in whose reign they had grown up , had been without stomach for the literature of a nation with whose tastes and habits he had ...
... once . The English Augustans were not warmed by the favour of any English Augustus . William the Deliverer , in whose reign they had grown up , had been without stomach for the literature of a nation with whose tastes and habits he had ...
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... once more . The stage seemed to feed the imagination by a tragedy chiefly of rant and fustian , national in its grossness if foreign in its form ; while for an enforced period of spiritual austerity society found its revenge in a comedy ...
... once more . The stage seemed to feed the imagination by a tragedy chiefly of rant and fustian , national in its grossness if foreign in its form ; while for an enforced period of spiritual austerity society found its revenge in a comedy ...
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... once ' fill'd with the sense of age ' and ' the fire of youth . ' ' Give me leave to tell you , ' he wrote to Pope as early as 1705 , ' that I know nobody so likely to equal ' Milton as the author of his earlier poems ' even at the age ...
... once ' fill'd with the sense of age ' and ' the fire of youth . ' ' Give me leave to tell you , ' he wrote to Pope as early as 1705 , ' that I know nobody so likely to equal ' Milton as the author of his earlier poems ' even at the age ...
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... once . Pope has not caught , he could not catch , — the manner of Homer . Had he succeeded in this , he might be forgiven a thousand inaccuracies more glaring than those which he has actually committed . A scholar's hand might make ...
... once . Pope has not caught , he could not catch , — the manner of Homer . Had he succeeded in this , he might be forgiven a thousand inaccuracies more glaring than those which he has actually committed . A scholar's hand might make ...
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Page 53 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows 1 , 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 : The line too labours, and the words move slow; When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw
Page 40 - IL Hark! they whisper; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, 10 Drowns my spirits, draws my breath? Tell me, my Soul, can this be Death? III. The world recedes; it disappears! Heav'n opens on my eyes! my ears
Page 271 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools, by Flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging, that he ne'er oblig'd 3 ; Like Cato, give his little Senate laws,
Page 193 - Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, 240 From thee to Nothing.—On superior pow'rs* Were we to press, inferior might on ours : Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd: Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
Page 52 - Where Denham's strength, and Waller's sweetness join". True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an Echo to the sense*
Page 221 - Save me alike from foolish Pride, Or impious Discontent, At aught thy Wisdom has deny'd, 35 Or aught thy Goodness lent. Teach me to feel another's Woe, To hide the Fault I see; That Mercy I to others show, That Mercy show to me.. 40 Mean tho
Page 21 - lift aloft her scale ; Peace o'er the World her olive wand extend, And white-rob'd Innocence from heav'n descend. Swift fly the years, and rise th' expected morn ! Oh spring to light, auspicious Babe, be born ! See Nature hastes her earliest wreaths to bring, With all the incense of the breathing spring: See lofty
Page 47 - Th' intent propos'd, that Licence is a rule. Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, 150 May boldly deviate from the common track; From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which' without passing thro* the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains.
Page 271 - True Genius kindles, and fair Fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, 195 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, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise;
Page 52 - These equal syllables alone require, Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire' ; While expletives their feeble aid do join 3 ; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvary'd chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where-e'er you find "the cooling western breeze,