The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeW.P. Nimmo, 1878 - 448 pages |
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... hand , no single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest ; so on the other , the world has no title to demand , that the whole care and time of any particular person should be sacrificed to its entertainment ...
... hand , no single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest ; so on the other , the world has no title to demand , that the whole care and time of any particular person should be sacrificed to its entertainment ...
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... hands . We have no cause to quarrel with them but for their obstinacy in persisting to write ; and this too may ... hand , a good poet no sooner communicates his works with the same desire of information , but it is imagined he is a ...
... hands . We have no cause to quarrel with them but for their obstinacy in persisting to write ; and this too may ... hand , a good poet no sooner communicates his works with the same desire of information , but it is imagined he is a ...
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... hand alone can reach . If , where the rules not far enough extend , ( Since rules were made but to promote their end ) Some lucky licence answer to the full 150 The intent proposed , that licence is a rule . Thus Pegasus , a nearer way ...
... hand alone can reach . If , where the rules not far enough extend , ( Since rules were made but to promote their end ) Some lucky licence answer to the full 150 The intent proposed , that licence is a rule . Thus Pegasus , a nearer way ...
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... schoolmen were the Dominican Thomas Aquinas , and the Franciscan Duns Scotus . A place where old and second - hand books were sold formerly , near Smithfield . Parties in wit attend on those of state , And ESSAY ON CRITICISM . 21.
... schoolmen were the Dominican Thomas Aquinas , and the Franciscan Duns Scotus . A place where old and second - hand books were sold formerly , near Smithfield . Parties in wit attend on those of state , And ESSAY ON CRITICISM . 21.
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... hand ; When the ripe colours soften and unite , And sweetly melt into just shade and light ; When mellowing years their full perfection give , 490 And each bold figure just begins to live , The treacherous colours the fair art betray ...
... hand ; When the ripe colours soften and unite , And sweetly melt into just shade and light ; When mellowing years their full perfection give , 490 And each bold figure just begins to live , The treacherous colours the fair art betray ...
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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.