The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Life, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1859 |
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... wife . ' Tis more to guide than spur the Muse's steed , Restrain his fury than provoke his speed : The winged courser , like a generous horse , Shows most true mettle when you check his course . Those rules of old , discover'd , not ...
... wife . ' Tis more to guide than spur the Muse's steed , Restrain his fury than provoke his speed : The winged courser , like a generous horse , Shows most true mettle when you check his course . Those rules of old , discover'd , not ...
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... wife that other men enjoy ; Then most our trouble still when most admir'd , And still the more we give , the more requir'd ; Whose fame with pains we guard , but lose with ease , Sure some to vex , but never all to please ; ' Tis what ...
... wife that other men enjoy ; Then most our trouble still when most admir'd , And still the more we give , the more requir'd ; Whose fame with pains we guard , but lose with ease , Sure some to vex , but never all to please ; ' Tis what ...
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... wife ; As well as dream such trifles are assign'd , As toys and empires , for a godlike mind : Rewards , that either would to virtue bring No joy , or be destructive of the thing : How oft by these at sixty are undone The virtues of a ...
... wife ; As well as dream such trifles are assign'd , As toys and empires , for a godlike mind : Rewards , that either would to virtue bring No joy , or be destructive of the thing : How oft by these at sixty are undone The virtues of a ...
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... for ribands if thou art so silly , Mark how they grace Lord Umbra or Sir Billy . Is yellow dirt the passion of thy life ? Look but on Gripus or on Gripus ' wife . If parts allure thee , think how Bacon shin'd , 80 THE POEMS.
... for ribands if thou art so silly , Mark how they grace Lord Umbra or Sir Billy . Is yellow dirt the passion of thy life ? Look but on Gripus or on Gripus ' wife . If parts allure thee , think how Bacon shin'd , 80 THE POEMS.
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... wife , The trophied arches , storied halls invade , And haunt their slumbers in the pompous shade . Alas ! not dazzled with their noontide ray , Compute the morn and evening to the day ; The whole amount of that enormous fame , A tale ...
... wife , The trophied arches , storied halls invade , And haunt their slumbers in the pompous shade . Alas ! not dazzled with their noontide ray , Compute the morn and evening to the day ; The whole amount of that enormous fame , A tale ...
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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.