The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeW.P. Nimmo, 1878 - 448 pages |
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... ancients ( to say the least of them ) had as much genius as we and that to take more pains , and employ more time , cannot fail to produce more complete pieces . They constantly applied themselves not only to that art , but to that ...
... ancients ( to say the least of them ) had as much genius as we and that to take more pains , and employ more time , cannot fail to produce more complete pieces . They constantly applied themselves not only to that art , but to that ...
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... ancient authors prey , Nor time nor moths e'er spoiled so much as they . Some drily plain , without invention's aid , Write dull receipts how poems may be made . These leave the sense , their learning to display , And those explain the ...
... ancient authors prey , Nor time nor moths e'er spoiled so much as they . Some drily plain , without invention's aid , Write dull receipts how poems may be made . These leave the sense , their learning to display , And those explain the ...
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... ancient rules a just esteem ; To copy nature is to copy them . Some beauties yet no precepts can declare , For there's a happiness as well as care . Music resembles poetry , in each 140 1 The author after this verse originally inserted ...
... ancient rules a just esteem ; To copy nature is to copy them . Some beauties yet no precepts can declare , For there's a happiness as well as care . Music resembles poetry , in each 140 1 The author after this verse originally inserted ...
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... ancients thus their rules invade , ( As kings dispense with laws themselves have made ) Moderns , beware ! or if you must offend Against the precept , ne'er transgress its end ; Let it be seldom , and compelled by need ; And have , at ...
... ancients thus their rules invade , ( As kings dispense with laws themselves have made ) Moderns , beware ! or if you must offend Against the precept , ne'er transgress its end ; Let it be seldom , and compelled by need ; And have , at ...
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... ancient altar stands , Above the reach of sacrilegious hands ; Secure from flames , from envy's fiercer rage , Destructive war , and all - involving age . See , from each clime the learned their incense bring ! Hear , in all tongues ...
... ancient altar stands , Above the reach of sacrilegious hands ; Secure from flames , from envy's fiercer rage , Destructive war , and all - involving age . See , from each clime the learned their incense bring ! Hear , in all tongues ...
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Page 76 - All nature is but art, unknown to thee ; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see ; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good. And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear,
Page 414 - How loved, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
Page 69 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 18 - But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong: In the bright muse, though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire...
Page 15 - Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
Page 165 - tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out : Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, thro...
Page 111 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe.
Page 83 - 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 176 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys; So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Page 112 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.