The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Revised and arranged expressly for the use of young people, by W.C. MacreadyBradbury & Evans, 1849 - 392 pages |
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Page xi
... look upon no verses as mine that are not inserted in this collection . And perhaps nothing could make it worth my while to own what are really so , but to avoid the imputation of so many dull and immoral AUTHOR'S PREFACE . xi.
... look upon no verses as mine that are not inserted in this collection . And perhaps nothing could make it worth my while to own what are really so , but to avoid the imputation of so many dull and immoral AUTHOR'S PREFACE . xi.
Page xii
... look upon myself as a man building a monument , or burying the dead . If time shall make it the former , may these poems ( as long as they last ) remain as a testimony , that their author never made his talents subservient to the mean ...
... look upon myself as a man building a monument , or burying the dead . If time shall make it the former , may these poems ( as long as they last ) remain as a testimony , that their author never made his talents subservient to the mean ...
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... look green in song ; These , were my breast inspired with equal flame , Like them in beauty , should be like in fame . Here hills and vales , the woodland and the plain , Here earth and water seem to strive again ; Not chaos - like ...
... look green in song ; These , were my breast inspired with equal flame , Like them in beauty , should be like in fame . Here hills and vales , the woodland and the plain , Here earth and water seem to strive again ; Not chaos - like ...
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... looks unmoved , he hopes the scaly breed , And eyes the dancing cork and bending reed . " Præcipites alta vitam sub nube relinquunt . " — VIRG . Our plenteous streams a various race supply , The bright 22 WINDSOR FOREST .
... looks unmoved , he hopes the scaly breed , And eyes the dancing cork and bending reed . " Præcipites alta vitam sub nube relinquunt . " — VIRG . Our plenteous streams a various race supply , The bright 22 WINDSOR FOREST .
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... look more closely , we shall find Most have the seeds of judgment in their mind " : Nature affords at least a glimmering light ; The lines , though touch'd but faintly , are drawn right . But as the slightest sketch , if justly traced ...
... look more closely , we shall find Most have the seeds of judgment in their mind " : Nature affords at least a glimmering light ; The lines , though touch'd but faintly , are drawn right . But as the slightest sketch , if justly traced ...
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Adrastus Æneid Ambrose Philips ancient arms bard Bavius behold blest breast breath charms Cibber clouds Codrus court cried crown'd death divine dread Dryope Dulness Dunciad Eteocles eternal eyes fair fame fate fire fix'd flames flies fool genius give glory goddess gods gold grace hand head heart Heaven heroes honour Horace Jove king knave learning live Lord lyre mighty monumental brass mortal Muse nature ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er once Ovid passion Phoebus Pindar pleased poem poet Polynices praise pride proud Queen rage reign rhyme rise roll round sacred Sappho satire seem'd sense shade shine sighs sing skies smiles soft soul sound spread sylphs tears Thalestris Thebes thee thine things thou throne trembling verse VIRG Virgil virtue Whig winds wings wretched youth
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Page 314 - Sense ! See Mystery to Mathematics fly! 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 127 - 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 ; Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven...
Page 12 - Rise, crown'd with light, imperial Salem, rise! Exalt thy towery head, and lift thy eyes! 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 12 - Nor evening Cynthia fill her silver horn ; But lost, dissolved in thy superior rays, One tide of glory, one unclouded blaze O'erflow thy courts; the Light himself shall shine Reveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine...
Page 156 - 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. THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER. DEO OPT. MAX, FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord...
Page 37 - Who gave the ball or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes: At every word a reputation dies.
Page 27 - whispers through the trees:" If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep...
Page 127 - Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.
Page 11 - No more shall nation against nation rise, Nor ardent warriors meet with hateful eyes. Nor fields with gleaming steel be cover'd o'er, The brazen trumpets kindle rage no more ; But useless lances into scythes shall bend, And the broad falchion in a plough-share end.
Page 36 - 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.