The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author..J. Walker; J. Johnson; W. J. and J. Richardson ... [and 18 others], 1808 - English poetry - 651 pages |
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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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... sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find In the next line it If crystal streams the cooling western breeze , ' whispers through the trees : ' with pleasing murmurs creep , ' The reader's threaten'd ( not in vain ) with ...
... sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find In the next line it If crystal streams the cooling western breeze , ' whispers through the trees : ' with pleasing murmurs creep , ' The reader's threaten'd ( not in vain ) with ...
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... sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find In the next line it If crystal streams the cooling western breeze , ' whispers through the trees : ' with pleasing murmurs creep , ' The reader's threaten'd ( not in vain ) with ...
... sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find In the next line it If crystal streams the cooling western breeze , ' whispers through the trees : ' with pleasing murmurs creep , ' The reader's threaten'd ( not in vain ) with ...
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... sure the best , Which nauseate all , and nothing can digest . Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move ; For fools admire , but men of sense approve : As things seem large which we through mists descry , Dulness is ever apt to magnify ...
... sure the best , Which nauseate all , and nothing can digest . Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move ; For fools admire , but men of sense approve : As things seem large which we through mists descry , Dulness is ever apt to magnify ...
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Page 212 - 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 43 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
Page 203 - See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high, progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing.
Page 54 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 199 - 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 67 - Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of mischief still on earth to roam. The light coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air.
Page 216 - See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again: All forms that perish other forms supply; (By turns we catch the vital breath, and die) Like bubbles on the sea of Matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
Page 55 - The 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. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 199 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 209 - Subject, compound them, follow her and God. Love, hope, and joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, fear, and grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd, Make and maintain the balance of the mind: The lights and shades, whose well accorded strife Gives all the strength and colour of our life.