The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author, Volumes 1-2Phillips, Sampson, 1852 - 616 pages |
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... nature honest , by experience wise , Healthy by temp'rance and by exercise , His life , though long , to sickness pass'd unknown ; His death was instant , and without a groan . The education of our great author was attended with ...
... nature honest , by experience wise , Healthy by temp'rance and by exercise , His life , though long , to sickness pass'd unknown ; His death was instant , and without a groan . The education of our great author was attended with ...
Page viii
... nature and simplicity . That Virgil , who copies Theocritus , refines on his original ; and in all points in which judgment has the principal part , is much suverior to his master . That among the moderns , their success has been ...
... nature and simplicity . That Virgil , who copies Theocritus , refines on his original ; and in all points in which judgment has the principal part , is much suverior to his master . That among the moderns , their success has been ...
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... nature was capable of it , to divest himself of part of his vanity , which was too great for his merit ; that he had not arrived yet to that pitch of excellence he might imagine , or think his most partial readers ima- gined ; that when ...
... nature was capable of it , to divest himself of part of his vanity , which was too great for his merit ; that he had not arrived yet to that pitch of excellence he might imagine , or think his most partial readers ima- gined ; that when ...
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... nature , and yours is doubly safe ; I will , if any shame there be , take it all to myself , and indeed I ought , the motion being first mine , and never heartily approved by you . " Of all our poet's writings , none were read with more ...
... nature , and yours is doubly safe ; I will , if any shame there be , take it all to myself , and indeed I ought , the motion being first mine , and never heartily approved by you . " Of all our poet's writings , none were read with more ...
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... Nature laughs , the groves are fresh and fair The sun's mild lustre warms the vital air ; If Sylvia smile , new glories gild the shore , And vanquish'd Nature seems to charm no more STREPHON . In spring the fields , in autumn hills I ...
... Nature laughs , the groves are fresh and fair The sun's mild lustre warms the vital air ; If Sylvia smile , new glories gild the shore , And vanquish'd Nature seems to charm no more STREPHON . In spring the fields , in autumn hills I ...
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