The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. From the Text of Dr. Warburton. With the Life of the Author ...W. Durrell, 1812 |
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... vigour of your mounting blood , And let gray fools be indolently good , Who , past all pleasure , damn the joys of sense , With rev'rend dulness and grave impotence . 175 Justin , who silent sate , and heard the man JANUARY AND MAY . 45.
... vigour of your mounting blood , And let gray fools be indolently good , Who , past all pleasure , damn the joys of sense , With rev'rend dulness and grave impotence . 175 Justin , who silent sate , and heard the man JANUARY AND MAY . 45.
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... dulness meet . Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit , And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit . As on the land while here the ocean gains , In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails ...
... dulness meet . Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit , And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit . As on the land while here the ocean gains , In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails ...
Page 114
... Dulness is ever apt to magnify . Some foreign writers , some our own despise ; The ancients only or the moderns prize . Thus wit , like faith , by each man is apply'd To one small sect , and all are damn'd beside . Meanly they seek the ...
... Dulness is ever apt to magnify . Some foreign writers , some our own despise ; The ancients only or the moderns prize . Thus wit , like faith , by each man is apply'd To one small sect , and all are damn'd beside . Meanly they seek the ...
Page 115
... dulness joins with quality : A constant critic at the great man's board , To fetch and carry nonsense for my lord . What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some stary'd hackney sonnetteer or me ! But let a lord once own the happy ...
... dulness joins with quality : A constant critic at the great man's board , To fetch and carry nonsense for my lord . What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some stary'd hackney sonnetteer or me ! But let a lord once own the happy ...
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... dulness with obscenity must prove As shameful sure as impotence in love . In the fat age of pleasure , wealth , and ease , 520 525 530 Sprang the rank weed , and thriv'd with large increase : When love was all an easy monarch's care ...
... dulness with obscenity must prove As shameful sure as impotence in love . In the fat age of pleasure , wealth , and ease , 520 525 530 Sprang the rank weed , and thriv'd with large increase : When love was all an easy monarch's care ...
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Page 113 - 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 108 - While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind ; But more...
Page 107 - A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
Page 16 - Or roll the planets through the boundless sky. Some less refin'd, beneath the moon's pale light Pursue the stars that shoot athwart the night, Or suck the mists in grosser air below, Or dip their pinions in the painted bow, Or brew fierce tempests on the wintry main, Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain.
Page 113 - 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 208 - Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me ; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone.
Page 35 - Now Jove suspends his golden scales in air, Weighs the men's wits against the lady's hair; The doubtful beam long nods from side to side; At length the wits mount up, the hairs subside. See fierce Belinda on the baron flies, With more than usual lightning in her eyes: Nor fear'd the chief th' unequal fight to try, Who sought no more than on his foe to die.
Page 13 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
Page 19 - Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.
Page 110 - Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at every line ; Pleased with a work where nothing's just or fit, One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover every part, And hide with ornaments their want of art.