The Works of Alexander Pope ...W. P. Hazard, 1856 - 504 pages |
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... praise ; since , if it be given to his face , it can scarce be distinguished from flat- tery , and if in his absence , it is hard to be certain of it . Were he sure to be commended by the best and most knowing , he is as sure of being ...
... praise ; since , if it be given to his face , it can scarce be distinguished from flat- tery , and if in his absence , it is hard to be certain of it . Were he sure to be commended by the best and most knowing , he is as sure of being ...
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... praise , insulted no adversary with ill language ; or when I could not attack a rival's works , encourage reports against his morals . To conclude , if this volume perish , let it serve as a warning to the critics , not to take too much ...
... praise , insulted no adversary with ill language ; or when I could not attack a rival's works , encourage reports against his morals . To conclude , if this volume perish , let it serve as a warning to the critics , not to take too much ...
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... praise ; but of Sandys he declared , in his notes to the Iliad , that English poetry owed much of its beauty to his translations . Sandys very rarely attempted original composition . From the care of Taverner , under whom his ...
... praise ; but of Sandys he declared , in his notes to the Iliad , that English poetry owed much of its beauty to his translations . Sandys very rarely attempted original composition . From the care of Taverner , under whom his ...
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... praise ; he discovers such acquaintance both with human life and public affairs , as is not easily conceived to have been attainable by a boy of fourteen , in Windsor forest . Next year , he was desirous of opening to himself new ...
... praise ; he discovers such acquaintance both with human life and public affairs , as is not easily conceived to have been attainable by a boy of fourteen , in Windsor forest . Next year , he was desirous of opening to himself new ...
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... praises were bestowed upon them and upon the preface , which is both elegant and learned in a high degree ... praise , which he was charged by Dennis with writing to himself , and they agreed for a while to flatter one another ...
... praises were bestowed upon them and upon the preface , which is both elegant and learned in a high degree ... praise , which he was charged by Dennis with writing to himself , and they agreed for a while to flatter one another ...
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Page 201 - 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 104 - Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reasoning but to err...
Page 83 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home ; Here thou, great Anna ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court ; In various talk th...
Page 103 - 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 through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part ; As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart...
Page 421 - How loved, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
Page 61 - Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind, Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe and levelled by the roller.
Page 392 - Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing ! that acting either part, The trifling head or the corrupted heart, Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord.
Page 434 - FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun...
Page 61 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden observes the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Page 97 - AWAKE, my ST JOHN ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot, Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.