The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With Memoir and NotesAmerican News Company, 1899 - 485 pages |
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... sure , upon the whole , a bad author deserves better usage than a bad critic ; for a writer's endeavour , for the most part , is to please his readers , and he fails merely through the misfortune of an ill judgment ; but such a critic's ...
... sure , upon the whole , a bad author deserves better usage than a bad critic ; for a writer's endeavour , for the most part , is to please his readers , and he fails merely through the misfortune of an ill judgment ; but such a critic's ...
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... sure to be commended by the best and most knowing , he is as sure of being envied by the worst and most ignorant , which are the majority ; for it is with a fine genius as with a fine fashion , all those are displeased at it who are not ...
... sure to be commended by the best and most knowing , he is as sure of being envied by the worst and most ignorant , which are the majority ; for it is with a fine genius as with a fine fashion , all those are displeased at it who are not ...
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... sure yourself and your own reach to know , How far your genius , taste , and learning go ; Launch not beyond your depth , but be discreet , And mark that point where sense and dulness meet . Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit ...
... sure yourself and your own reach to know , How far your genius , taste , and learning go ; Launch not beyond your depth , but be discreet , And mark that point where sense and dulness meet . Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit ...
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... sure yourself and your own reach to know , How far your genius , taste , and learning go ; Launch not beyond your depth , but be discreet , And mark that point where sense and dulness meet . Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit ...
... sure yourself and your own reach to know , How far your genius , taste , and learning go ; Launch not beyond your depth , but be discreet , And mark that point where sense and dulness meet . Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit ...
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... Sure to hate most the men from whom they learn'd . So modern ' pothecaries , taught the art By doctors ' bills to play the doctor's part , Bold in the practice of mistaken rules , Prescribe , apply , and call their masters fools . Some ...
... Sure to hate most the men from whom they learn'd . So modern ' pothecaries , taught the art By doctors ' bills to play the doctor's part , Bold in the practice of mistaken rules , Prescribe , apply , and call their masters fools . Some ...
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Page 213 - Heaven from all creatures hides the Book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer Being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, 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 219 - Chaos of Thought and Passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Page 224 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 68 - Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw; Or stain her honour or her new brocade; Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball ; Or whether Heaven has doomed that Shock must fall.
Page 214 - Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar ; Wait the great teacher Death ; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that Hope to be thy blessing now.
Page 69 - 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.
Page 50 - But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough with them is right or wrong . In the bright Muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine but the music there. These equal syllables alone require...
Page 26 - See, a long race thy spacious courts adorn; See future sons, and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks on every side arise, Demanding life, impatient for the skies...
Page 218 - All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, whatever is, is right.
Page 218 - 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...