The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Life, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1859 |
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... shades more sweetly recommend the light , So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit : For works may have more wit than does them good , As bodies perish through excess of blood . Others for language all their care express , And value ...
... shades more sweetly recommend the light , So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit : For works may have more wit than does them good , As bodies perish through excess of blood . Others for language all their care express , And value ...
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... shade pursue , But like a shadow proves the substance true ; For envied wit , like Sol eclips'd , makes known Th ' opposing body's grossness , not its own . 8 The Rev. Luke Milbourn made a fierce attack on Dry- den's Virgil . When first ...
... shade pursue , But like a shadow proves the substance true ; For envied wit , like Sol eclips'd , makes known Th ' opposing body's grossness , not its own . 8 The Rev. Luke Milbourn made a fierce attack on Dry- den's Virgil . When first ...
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... shade and light ; When mellowing years their full perfection give , And each bold figure just begins to live , The treacherous colours the fair art betray , And all the bright creation fades away ! Unhappy wit , like most mistaken ...
... shade and light ; When mellowing years their full perfection give , And each bold figure just begins to live , The treacherous colours the fair art betray , And all the bright creation fades away ! Unhappy wit , like most mistaken ...
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... shade ! receive ; This praise at least a grateful Muse may give : The Muse whose early voice you taught to sing , Prescrib'd her heights , and prun'd her tender wing , ( Her guide now lost ) no more attempts to rise , But in low numbers ...
... shade ! receive ; This praise at least a grateful Muse may give : The Muse whose early voice you taught to sing , Prescrib'd her heights , and prun'd her tender wing , ( Her guide now lost ) no more attempts to rise , But in low numbers ...
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... shade ! Or ask of yonder argent fields above Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove ! Of systems possible , if ' tis confest That wisdom infinite must form the best , Where all must full or not coherent be , And all that rises rise in ...
... shade ! Or ask of yonder argent fields above Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove ! Of systems possible , if ' tis confest That wisdom infinite must form the best , Where all must full or not coherent be , And all that rises rise in ...
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Ambrose Philips ANTISTROPHE Balaam beauty behold bless'd blessing bliss breast breath Cæsar Catiline charms Countess of Suffolk cried critics crown'd dame dear death e'en e'er ease envy EPIGRAM EPISTLE Eurydice Eustace Budgell eyes fair fame fate fire fix'd flame fool gentle gold grace Gulliver's Travels happiness heart Heaven honour Houyhnhnm join'd king knave knight lady learn'd learning live lord lov'd lyre man's mankind mind mortal Muse nature nature's ne'er never numbers nymph o'er once Ovid pain parterre passion Phryne pleas'd pleasure poet Pope praise pride Procris proud rage rais'd reason rise rules sage Sappho seem'd self-love SEMICHORUS sense shade shine sigh skies SMIL soft soul spouse squire taste thee things thou thought true Twas tyrant virtue whate'er whole wife wise youth
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Page 3 - To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. Some few in that, but numbers err in this, Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss; A fool might once himself alone expose, Now one in verse makes many more in prose. Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 48 - Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd 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...
Page 86 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge Thy foe. If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way!
Page 69 - For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 6 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides; Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...
Page 49 - Two principles in human nature reign, Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain ; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call ; Each works its end, to move or govern all ; And to their proper operation still Ascribe all good, to their improper — ilL Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole.
Page 135 - You show us Rome was glorious, not profuse, And pompous buildings once were things of use; Yet shall, my lord, your just, your noble rules, Fill half the land with imitating fools ; Who random drawings from your sheets shall take; And of one beauty many blunders make...
Page 46 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name : Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point : This kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on thee.
Page 17 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with
Page 61 - One in their nature, which are two in ours ; And reason raise o'er instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis Man.