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... of any peculiar excellence . ' To all this we have only to reply , that since the poem has been universally admired by Pope's countrymen during more than a century and a half , and is at this day as much admired Introduction . xvii.
... of any peculiar excellence . ' To all this we have only to reply , that since the poem has been universally admired by Pope's countrymen during more than a century and a half , and is at this day as much admired Introduction . xvii.
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... century , and vitiated much of the poetry of that age : beginning in Italy , where Marini was its chief promoter , it spread to Spain , France , and England . In this country , Donne Crashaw , Cowley , and Cleveland were famous for ...
... century , and vitiated much of the poetry of that age : beginning in Italy , where Marini was its chief promoter , it spread to Spain , France , and England . In this country , Donne Crashaw , Cowley , and Cleveland were famous for ...
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... century written in this metre , the Alexandreis , or story of Alexander the Great . The last line of Pope's own Messiah is as good an instance of a ' needless Alexan- drine ' as can be given . See Guest's English Rhythms , ii . 255 . L ...
... century written in this metre , the Alexandreis , or story of Alexander the Great . The last line of Pope's own Messiah is as good an instance of a ' needless Alexan- drine ' as can be given . See Guest's English Rhythms , ii . 255 . L ...
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... century . Rome was sacked by the Goths in 410 , and the Western Empire abolished in 476. The continual irruptions of the barbarians in the same age put a stop to the tranquil progress of learning and refinement . Ib . Rome : Pronounced ...
... century . Rome was sacked by the Goths in 410 , and the Western Empire abolished in 476. The continual irruptions of the barbarians in the same age put a stop to the tranquil progress of learning and refinement . Ib . Rome : Pronounced ...
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THOMAS ARNOLD. the twelfth century ) a hundred feet ; also that he constructed a causeway on the west side of the town . L. 262. Where age and want : This beautiful and well- known line shows that Pope was not wanting in the faculty of ...
THOMAS ARNOLD. the twelfth century ) a hundred feet ; also that he constructed a causeway on the west side of the town . L. 262. Where age and want : This beautiful and well- known line shows that Pope was not wanting in the faculty of ...
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Page 115 - In vain, they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Page 4 - whispers through the trees." If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threatened (not in vain) with " sleep." Then at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Page 1 - A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ : Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where Nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The gen'rous pleasure to be charm'd with wit.
Page 149 - Excise. A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Page 4 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic, if too new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 28 - Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare! Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air; Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Page 115 - Night primaeval 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 sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus
Page 127 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
Page xl - 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 45 - Or in proud falls magnificently lost, But clear and artless, pouring through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows? Whose seats the weary traveller repose ? Who taught that Heav'n-directed spire to rise? " The Man of Ross,