The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author ...Z. & B. F. Pratt, 1846 |
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... fools ; by flatterers besieg'd ; And so obliging that he ne'er oblig'd : Like Cato give his little senate laws , And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and Templars ev'ry sentence raise , And wonder with a foolish face of ...
... fools ; by flatterers besieg'd ; And so obliging that he ne'er oblig'd : Like Cato give his little senate laws , And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and Templars ev'ry sentence raise , And wonder with a foolish face of ...
Page 71
... Fools grant whate'er ambition craves , And men once ignorant are slaves . O cursed effects of civil hate , In every age , in every state ! Still , when the lust of tyrant power succeeds , Some Athens perishes , some Tully bleeds ...
... Fools grant whate'er ambition craves , And men once ignorant are slaves . O cursed effects of civil hate , In every age , in every state ! Still , when the lust of tyrant power succeeds , Some Athens perishes , some Tully bleeds ...
Page 74
... 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 . In poets as true genius is but rare , True taste as seldom is ...
... 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 . In poets as true genius is but rare , True taste as seldom is ...
Page 75
... fools : In search of wit these lose their common sense , And then turn critics in their own defence : Each burns alike , who can , or cannot write , Or with a rival's or an eunuch's spite . All fools have still an itching to deride ...
... fools : In search of wit these lose their common sense , And then turn critics in their own defence : Each burns alike , who can , or cannot write , Or with a rival's or an eunuch's spite . All fools have still an itching to deride ...
Page 77
... fools . Some on the leaves of ancient authors prey , Nor time nor moths e'er spoil'd so much as they : Some drily plain , without invention's aid , Write dull receipts how poems may be made . These leave the sense , their learning to ...
... fools . Some on the leaves of ancient authors prey , Nor time nor moths e'er spoil'd so much as they : Some drily plain , without invention's aid , Write dull receipts how poems may be made . These leave the sense , their learning to ...
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Page 73 - The world recedes: it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy Victory? O Death! where is thy Sting.
Page 84 - 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 120 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart ; To make mankind in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Page 104 - Whatever spirit, careless of his charge, His post neglects, or leaves the fair at large, Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins, Be...
Page 80 - 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 84 - 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 100 - Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face: Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes. The busy sylphs surround their darling care, These set the head, and those divide the hair, Some fold the sleeve, while others plait the gown; And Betty's praised for labours not her own. CANTO II NOT with more glories, in th...
Page 288 - She, who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules ; Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, Yet has her humour most, when she obeys...
Page 80 - OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Page 83 - Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. 310 False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, 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.