The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks, Volume 3J. Rivington, 1824 - English literature |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 52
Page 19
... lover still , To change Olympus , & c . Ver . 235 . Happy the man , who to these shades retires , But doubly happy , if the Muse inspires ! 235 c2 Blest Happy next him , who to these shades retires , WINDSOR - FOREST . 19.
... lover still , To change Olympus , & c . Ver . 235 . Happy the man , who to these shades retires , But doubly happy , if the Muse inspires ! 235 c2 Blest Happy next him , who to these shades retires , WINDSOR - FOREST . 19.
Page 20
... Muse in- spires : Whom humbler joys of home - felt quiet please , Successive study , exercise , and ease . He gathers health from herbs the forest yields , And of their fragrant physic spoils the fields : With chemic art exalts the min ...
... Muse in- spires : Whom humbler joys of home - felt quiet please , Successive study , exercise , and ease . He gathers health from herbs the forest yields , And of their fragrant physic spoils the fields : With chemic art exalts the min ...
Page 21
... Muses sport on COOPER'S HILL . ( On COOPER'S HILL eternal wreaths shall grow 265 While lasts the mountain , or while Thames shall flow ) I seem through consecrated walks to rove , I hear soft music die along the grove : Led by the sound ...
... Muses sport on COOPER'S HILL . ( On COOPER'S HILL eternal wreaths shall grow 265 While lasts the mountain , or while Thames shall flow ) I seem through consecrated walks to rove , I hear soft music die along the grove : Led by the sound ...
Page 22
... Muse's lyre . NOTES . 275 Ver . 271. majestic Denham ] Pope , by the expression of " ma- jestic , " has justly characterized the flow of Denham's couplets . It is extraordinary that Pope , who by this expression seems to have ...
... Muse's lyre . NOTES . 275 Ver . 271. majestic Denham ] Pope , by the expression of " ma- jestic , " has justly characterized the flow of Denham's couplets . It is extraordinary that Pope , who by this expression seems to have ...
Page 23
... Muses to their ancient seats ; 285 To paint anew the flow'ry sylvan scenes , To crown the forests with immortal ... Muse in unambitious strains Paints the green forests and the flow'ry plains ; Where I obscurely pass my careless ...
... Muses to their ancient seats ; 285 To paint anew the flow'ry sylvan scenes , To crown the forests with immortal ... Muse in unambitious strains Paints the green forests and the flow'ry plains ; Where I obscurely pass my careless ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abelard Addison admiration Ćneid ancient Annibale Carracci appears Aristotle beauty blest Boileau Bowles character charms COMMENTARY Craggs Critic death divine Dryden elegant Eloisa Eloisa to Abelard Epistle Epitaph Essay Essay on Criticism Euripides Eurydice ev'n ev'ry excellent eyes fair fame fancy fate flame Fulvio Testi genius give grace heart heav'n Heroes Homer honour Horace Iliad IMITATIONS Johnson judge judgment Lady learning letters lines Lock Lord lov'd Lyric manner Medals mind Moral Muse nature NOTES numbers Nymph o'er observed painted Paraclete passage passion piece pleas'd poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pow'r praise pray'rs precepts Pride quć Quintilian rage rise rules sacred satire says sense shews shine sighs Sophocles soul spirit striking Sylphs taste tears Thalestris thee thing thou thought translation trembling true truth Umbriel verse Virgil Warburton Warton write
Popular passages
Page 101 - 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' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 93 - And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is still, — the style is excellent; The sense, they humbly take upon content. Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found...
Page 45 - Ten Censure wrong for one who Writes amiss ; A Fool might once himself alone expose, Now One in Verse makes many more in Prose. 'Tis with our Judgments as our Watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 98 - 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. 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...
Page 95 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 186 - This day, black omens threat the brightest fair, That e'er deserv'da watchful spirit's care; Some dire disaster, or by force, or slight; But what, or where, the fates have wrapt in night. Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail china jar receive a flaw; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade; Forget her pray'rs, or miss a masquerade; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; Or whether Heav'n has doom'd that Shock must fall.
Page 81 - While from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise!
Page 204 - fore Gad, you must be civil! "Plague on't! 'tis past a jest — nay prithee, pox! "Give her the hair" — he spoke, and rapp'd his box. "It grieves me much" (replied the Peer again) "Who speaks so well should ever speak in vain. But by this Lock, this sacred Lock I swear, (Which never more shall join its parted hair; Which...
Page 196 - T' inclose the lock ; now joins it, to divide. Ev'n then, before the fatal engine clos'd, A wretched sylph too fondly interpos'd ; Fate urg'd the shears, and cut the sylph in twain, (But airy substance soon unites again) The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, for ever, and for ever ! Then flash'd the living lightning from her eyes, • And screams of horror rend th
Page 176 - To one man's treat, but for another's ball? When Florio speaks what virgin could withstand, If gentle Damon did not squeeze her hand? With varying vanities, from every part, They shift the moving Toyshop of their heart; Where wigs with wigs, with sword-knots sword-knots strive, Beaux banish beaux, and coaches coaches drive.