The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Life, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1859 |
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... sound , And worlds applaud that must not yet be found ! O may some spark of your celestial fire The last , the meanest of your sons inspire , ( That on weak wings , from far , pursues your flights , Glows while he reads , but trembles ...
... sound , And worlds applaud that must not yet be found ! O may some spark of your celestial fire The last , the meanest of your sons inspire , ( That on weak wings , from far , pursues your flights , Glows while he reads , but trembles ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... sounds and jingling syllables grown old , Still run on poets , in a raging vein , E'en to the dregs and squeezings of the brain , Strain out the last dull droppings of their sense , And rhyme with all the rage of impotence . Such ...
... sounds and jingling syllables grown old , Still run on poets , in a raging vein , E'en to the dregs and squeezings of the brain , Strain out the last dull droppings of their sense , And rhyme with all the rage of impotence . Such ...
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... sound , When rock'd the mountains , and when groan'd the ground , She taught the weak to bend , the proud to pray , To power unseen , and mightier far than they : She , from the rending earth and bursting skies , Saw gods descend , and ...
... sound , When rock'd the mountains , and when groan'd the ground , She taught the weak to bend , the proud to pray , To power unseen , and mightier far than they : She , from the rending earth and bursting skies , Saw gods descend , and ...
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... sounds to things , from fancy to the heart ; For wit's false mirror held up nature's light , Show'd erring pride - whatever is is right ; That reason , passion , answer one great aim That true self - love and social are the same ; That ...
... sounds to things , from fancy to the heart ; For wit's false mirror held up nature's light , Show'd erring pride - whatever is is right ; That reason , passion , answer one great aim That true self - love and social are the same ; That ...
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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.