The Works of Alexander Pope: The life [by W.J. Courthope] and indexJ. Murray, 1889 - Poets, English |
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... means certain , that the poet's grandfather was one Alexander Pope , Rector of Thruxton in Hampshire , who died in 1645. ' Alexander Pope , his son , and the poet's father , is said to have been a posthumous child . ' On the mother's ...
... means certain , that the poet's grandfather was one Alexander Pope , Rector of Thruxton in Hampshire , who died in 1645. ' Alexander Pope , his son , and the poet's father , is said to have been a posthumous child . ' On the mother's ...
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... given to Curll in 1733 ( see Vol . VI . p . 424 ) , and there does not seem to be any reason for disbelieving it . · Spence , ' Anecdotes , ' p . 198 . Such a phrase may mean no more than at this LIFE OF POPE . [ CHAP . I.
... given to Curll in 1733 ( see Vol . VI . p . 424 ) , and there does not seem to be any reason for disbelieving it . · Spence , ' Anecdotes , ' p . 198 . Such a phrase may mean no more than at this LIFE OF POPE . [ CHAP . I.
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Alexander Pope. Such a phrase may mean no more than at this age he was taken from school to live at home . Very little is recorded of his childhood . Mrs. Racket , his half - sister , relates that , while he was a child in coats , a cow ...
Alexander Pope. Such a phrase may mean no more than at this age he was taken from school to live at home . Very little is recorded of his childhood . Mrs. Racket , his half - sister , relates that , while he was a child in coats , a cow ...
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... means , at so early an age , he had acquired his harmonious system of versification . It is often said that Waller was the first of English poets to write couplets after the fashion that prevailed in the latter half of the seventeenth ...
... means , at so early an age , he had acquired his harmonious system of versification . It is often said that Waller was the first of English poets to write couplets after the fashion that prevailed in the latter half of the seventeenth ...
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... means of such artifices as he could find in the English poets , he should in- sensibly form a poetic diction of his own . The most super- ficial reader can hardly fail to observe the gulf that separates his manner from Dryden's . The ...
... means of such artifices as he could find in the English poets , he should in- sensibly form a poetic diction of his own . The most super- ficial reader can hardly fail to observe the gulf that separates his manner from Dryden's . The ...
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Page 110 - And hence th' egregious wizard shall foredoom The fate of Louis, and the fall of Rome. Then cease, bright Nymph! to mourn thy ravish'd 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.
Page 43 - Twere well might critics still this freedom take : But Appius reddens at each word you speak, And stares tremendous, with a threatening eye, Like some fierce tyrant in old tapestry.
Page 54 - And hence perhaps may be given some reason of that common observation, that men who have a great deal of wit, and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment or deepest reason...
Page 68 - And something previous ev'n to taste — 'tis sense : Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And, though no science, fairly worth the seven : A light which in yourself you must perceive ; Jones and Le Notre have it not to give.
Page 271 - Oh let me live my own, and die so too! (To live and die is all I have to do:) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease. And see what friends, and read what books I please: Above a patron, though I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend.
Page 112 - 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 52 - MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much, as his observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.
Page 183 - There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place: There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul: And he, whose lightning pierced the' Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines; Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as he conquer'd Spain.
Page 249 - That reason, passion, answer one great aim ; That true self-love and social are the same ; That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is — ourselves to know.
Page 320 - Are what ten thousand envy and adore : All, all look up, with reverential awe, At crimes that 'scape, or triumph o'er the law : While truth, worth, wisdom, daily they decry — " Nothing is sacred now but villany.