The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Ed. by the Rev. H. F. CaryD. Appleton & Company, 1867 - 485 pages |
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... DENNIS'S BENEFIT 194 MACER , A CHARACTER To MR . JOHN MOORE SONG , BY A PERSON OF QUALITY ON A CERTAIN LADY AT . COURT • 194 195 1.96 197 ON HIS GROTTO AT TWICKENHAM To MR . GAY · 198 . 198 To MRS . M. B. ON HER BIRTH - DAY To MB ...
... DENNIS'S BENEFIT 194 MACER , A CHARACTER To MR . JOHN MOORE SONG , BY A PERSON OF QUALITY ON A CERTAIN LADY AT . COURT • 194 195 1.96 197 ON HIS GROTTO AT TWICKENHAM To MR . GAY · 198 . 198 To MRS . M. B. ON HER BIRTH - DAY To MB ...
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... John Dennis , a furious old critic by profession , who , upon no other provocation , wrote against this essay and its author , in a manner perfectly lunatic : for as to the mention made of him in ver . 270 , he took it as a compliment ...
... John Dennis , a furious old critic by profession , who , upon no other provocation , wrote against this essay and its author , in a manner perfectly lunatic : for as to the mention made of him in ver . 270 , he took it as a compliment ...
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... John's1 self ( great Dryden's friends before ) With open arms received one poet more . Happy my studies , when by ... Dennis rave in furious fret ; I never answer'd , I was not in debt . If want provoked , or madness made them print , I ...
... John's1 self ( great Dryden's friends before ) With open arms received one poet more . Happy my studies , when by ... Dennis rave in furious fret ; I never answer'd , I was not in debt . If want provoked , or madness made them print , I ...
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... JOHN DENNIS . " His precepts are false , or trivial , or both ; his thoughts are crude and abortive , his expressions absurd , his num- bers harsh and unmusical , his rhymes trivial and common ; -instead of majesty , we have something ...
... JOHN DENNIS . " His precepts are false , or trivial , or both ; his thoughts are crude and abortive , his expressions absurd , his num- bers harsh and unmusical , his rhymes trivial and common ; -instead of majesty , we have something ...
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... JOHN DENNIS " That it is a wretched rhapsody , impudently written in cmulation of the Cooper's Hill of Sir John Denham : the author of it is obscure , is ambiguous , is affected , is temera rious , is barbarous . " But the author of the ...
... JOHN DENNIS " That it is a wretched rhapsody , impudently written in cmulation of the Cooper's Hill of Sir John Denham : the author of it is obscure , is ambiguous , is affected , is temera rious , is barbarous . " But the author of the ...
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Page 53 - 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 : 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 224 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives...
Page 26 - Rise, crown'd with light, imperial Salem, rise! Exalt thy towery head, and lift thy eyes! See a long race thy spacious courts adorn; See future sons and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks, on every side arise Demanding life, impatient for the skies!
Page 464 - Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off the ethereal plain ; As Argus
Page 46 - First follow nature and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same : Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art. Art from that fund each just supply provides, Works without show, and without pomp presides; In some fair body thus th...
Page 50 - Fired at first sight with what the muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanced, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise!
Page 82 - And hence th' egregious wizard shall foredoom The fate of Louis, and the fall of Rome. Then cease, bright nymph ! to mourn thy ravished hair, Which adds new glory to the shining sphere! Not all the tresses that fair head can boast, Shall draw such envy as the Lock you lost. For after all the murders of your eye, When, after millions slain, yourself shall die; When those fair suns shall set, as set they must, And all those tresses shall be laid in dust, This lock the Muse shall consecrate to fame,...
Page 230 - 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 283 - His gardens next your admiration call, On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Page 277 - Of mimic statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to flatter, left of all his store ! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame ; this lord of useless thousands ends.