Mr. Pope, His Life and Times, Volume 2Hutchinson & Company, 1909 - 6 pages |
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Page 370
... desire you to read over the text , and make a few in the way you like best , whether dry raillery upon the style and way of commenting of trivial critics ; or humorous , upon the authors in the poem ; or historical , on persons , places ...
... desire you to read over the text , and make a few in the way you like best , whether dry raillery upon the style and way of commenting of trivial critics ; or humorous , upon the authors in the poem ; or historical , on persons , places ...
Page 393
... desire in his lifetime , 1 and some- thing will be necessary to be done to clear both his and my reputation , which the letters under his hand will abundantly do . " Pope explains that the work he had been engaged upon for some time ...
... desire in his lifetime , 1 and some- thing will be necessary to be done to clear both his and my reputation , which the letters under his hand will abundantly do . " Pope explains that the work he had been engaged upon for some time ...
Page 400
... desire of having it known that I had not engaged your pains for nothing , than which you are sensible there could not be any part more disreputable to me . " After the lies trumped up against him by James Moore 400 Mr. Pope.
... desire of having it known that I had not engaged your pains for nothing , than which you are sensible there could not be any part more disreputable to me . " After the lies trumped up against him by James Moore 400 Mr. Pope.
Page 406
... desire . All other ambitions my person , education , constitution , religion , etc. , con- spired to remove far from me . That desire was to fix and preserve a few lasting , dependable friend- ships ; and the accidents which have ...
... desire . All other ambitions my person , education , constitution , religion , etc. , con- spired to remove far from me . That desire was to fix and preserve a few lasting , dependable friend- ships ; and the accidents which have ...
Page 435
... desire of reward , and see no just reason of praise , I think I had better let it alone . There are flatterers good enough to be 1 Gay preserved , almost throughout his life , a naive belief in the transcendent delights of a court life ...
... desire of reward , and see no just reason of praise , I think I had better let it alone . There are flatterers good enough to be 1 Gay preserved , almost throughout his life , a naive belief in the transcendent delights of a court life ...
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Page 474 - Lo, the poor Indian! Whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Page 656 - 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 492 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Page 480 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancy'd life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Page 443 - 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!
Page 513 - 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 656 - 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 481 - Come then my Friend! my genius! come along; Oh, master of the poet, and the song! And while the muse now stoops, or now ascends, To man's low passions, or their glorious ends Teach me, like thee, in various nature wise, To fall with dignity, with temper rise; Formed by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe ; Correct with spirit, eloquent with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to please.
Page 473 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 444 - He pledged it to the knight ; the knight had wit, So kept the diamond, and the rogue was bit.