The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeW.P. Nimmo, 1878 - 448 pages |
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... or place , Due distance reconciles to form and grace . A prudent chief not always must display His powers in equal ranks , and fair array . But with the occasion and the place comply , Conceal 12 ESSAY ON CRITICISM .
... or place , Due distance reconciles to form and grace . A prudent chief not always must display His powers in equal ranks , and fair array . But with the occasion and the place comply , Conceal 12 ESSAY ON CRITICISM .
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... fair art betray , And all the bright creation fades away ! Unhappy wit , like most mistaken things , Atones not for that envy which it brings . In youth alone its empty praise we boast , But soon the short - lived vanity is lost : Like ...
... fair art betray , And all the bright creation fades away ! Unhappy wit , like most mistaken things , Atones not for that envy which it brings . In youth alone its empty praise we boast , But soon the short - lived vanity is lost : Like ...
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... fair sat panting at a courtier's play , And not a mask went unimproved away : The modest fan was lifted up no more , : 1 540 And virgins smiled at what they blushed before . The following licence of a foreign reign Did all the dregs of ...
... fair sat panting at a courtier's play , And not a mask went unimproved away : The modest fan was lifted up no more , : 1 540 And virgins smiled at what they blushed before . The following licence of a foreign reign Did all the dregs of ...
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... fair sex have read it for one by mistake . Accord- ing to these gentlemen , the four elements are inhabited by spirits , which they call sylphs , gnomes , nymphs , and salamanders . The gnomes or demons of earth delight in mischief ...
... fair sex have read it for one by mistake . Accord- ing to these gentlemen , the four elements are inhabited by spirits , which they call sylphs , gnomes , nymphs , and salamanders . The gnomes or demons of earth delight in mischief ...
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... fair in all their pride expire , To their first elements their souls retire : The sprites of fiery termagants in flame Mount up , and take a salamander's name . Soft yielding minds to water glide away , And sip , with nymphs , their ...
... fair in all their pride expire , To their first elements their souls retire : The sprites of fiery termagants in flame Mount up , and take a salamander's name . Soft yielding minds to water glide away , And sip , with nymphs , their ...
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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.