The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions and Improvements, Volume 2T. & G. Palmer, 1804 - 754 pages |
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... proud their visits to delay , And send the godly in a pet to pray : A nymph there is that all your pow'r disdains , And thousands more in equal mirth maintains . But oh ! if e'er thy gnome could spoil a grace , Or raise a pimple on a ...
... proud their visits to delay , And send the godly in a pet to pray : A nymph there is that all your pow'r disdains , And thousands more in equal mirth maintains . But oh ! if e'er thy gnome could spoil a grace , Or raise a pimple on a ...
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... proud triumph spread The long - contended honours of her head . But Umbriel , hateful gnome ! forbears not so ; He breaks the vial whence the sorrows flow . Then see ! the nymph in beauteous grief appears , Her eyes half languishing ...
... proud triumph spread The long - contended honours of her head . But Umbriel , hateful gnome ! forbears not so ; He breaks the vial whence the sorrows flow . Then see ! the nymph in beauteous grief appears , Her eyes half languishing ...
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... proud or civil , Meek as a saint , or haughty as the devil ; Whether an easy , fond , familiar fool , Or such a wit as no man e'er can rule . ' Tis true , perfection none must hope to find In all this world , much less in womankind ...
... proud or civil , Meek as a saint , or haughty as the devil ; Whether an easy , fond , familiar fool , Or such a wit as no man e'er can rule . ' Tis true , perfection none must hope to find In all this world , much less in womankind ...
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... proud array . The time approach'd , to church the parties went , At once with carnal and devout intent : 310 Forth came the priest , and bade th ' obedient wife Like Sarah or Rebecca lead her life : Then pray'd the Pow'rs the fruitful ...
... proud array . The time approach'd , to church the parties went , At once with carnal and devout intent : 310 Forth came the priest , and bade th ' obedient wife Like Sarah or Rebecca lead her life : Then pray'd the Pow'rs the fruitful ...
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... proud magnificence : His house was stately , his retinue gay , Large was his train , and gorgeous his array . His spacious garden made to yield to none , Was compass'd round with walls of solid , stone ; Priapus could not half describe ...
... proud magnificence : His house was stately , his retinue gay , Large was his train , and gorgeous his array . His spacious garden made to yield to none , Was compass'd round with walls of solid , stone ; Priapus could not half describe ...
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Page 111 - And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is still, — The style is excellent; The sense, they humbly take upon content. Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
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 advanc'd, behold with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise!
Page 99 - Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose ; Now one in verse makes many more in prose. Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 112 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line, While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes, Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...
Page 94 - Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound, Or think Thee Lord alone of man. When thousand worlds are round. Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge Thy foe.
Page 111 - Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face of nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay ; But true expression, like th' unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
Page 118 - Some bright idea of the master's mind, Where a new world leaps out at his command, And ready Nature waits upon his hand; When the ripe colours soften and unite, And sweetly melt into just shade and light; When mellowing years their full perfection give, And each bold figure just begins to live, The treacherous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away!
Page 25 - And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies. Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast, When husbands, or when lap-dogs breathe their last ; Or when rich China vessels fall'n from high, In glitt'ring dust and painted fragments lie ! 160 " Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine...
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.