The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. From the text of dr. Warburton. With the life of the author [by T. Cibber].C. Cooke, Paternoster Row, 1807 - English poetry |
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... youth , sacrificing the very learning pur- chased by the public money to a mean thirst of power ; that he was sent abroad to encourage litera- ture , in place of which he had always endeavoured to suppress merit . At last the contest ...
... youth , sacrificing the very learning pur- chased by the public money to a mean thirst of power ; that he was sent abroad to encourage litera- ture , in place of which he had always endeavoured to suppress merit . At last the contest ...
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... youth ( if Nature warm his heart , And all his projects stand inform'd with art ) Here clear the caves , there ope the leading vein , The mines detected flame with gold again How vast , how copious , are thy new designs ! 65 How ev'ry ...
... youth ( if Nature warm his heart , And all his projects stand inform'd with art ) Here clear the caves , there ope the leading vein , The mines detected flame with gold again How vast , how copious , are thy new designs ! 65 How ev'ry ...
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... youth may be made ( as it never fails to be in executions ) a case of com- passion ; that I never was so concerned about my works as to vindicate them in print , believing , if any thing was good , it would defend itself , and what was ...
... youth may be made ( as it never fails to be in executions ) a case of com- passion ; that I never was so concerned about my works as to vindicate them in print , believing , if any thing was good , it would defend itself , and what was ...
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... youth ferments your And purer spirits swell the sprightly flood , [ blood , Now range the hills , the gameful woods beset , Wind the shrill horn , or spread the waving net . When milder autumn summer's heat succeeds , And in the new ...
... youth ferments your And purer spirits swell the sprightly flood , [ blood , Now range the hills , the gameful woods beset , Wind the shrill horn , or spread the waving net . When milder autumn summer's heat succeeds , And in the new ...
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... youth rush eager to the sylvan war , · Swarm o'er the lawns , the forest walks surround , Rouse the fleet hart , and cheer the op'ning hound . Th ' impatient courser pants in ev'ry vein , And pawing , seems to beat the distant plain ...
... youth rush eager to the sylvan war , · Swarm o'er the lawns , the forest walks surround , Rouse the fleet hart , and cheer the op'ning hound . Th ' impatient courser pants in ev'ry vein , And pawing , seems to beat the distant plain ...
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Adrastus ancient appear Balaam bear beauty Behold bless bless'd bliss blood breast bright charms critics crown'd Cynthus dæmon dame delight Dryden Dryope Dunciad e'er earth Eclogues Eteocles eternal ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame fate fix'd flame flow'rs fools fury genius give glory gnome gods grace groves hair happiness heart Heav'n honour Iliad Jove kind king learn'd light live lord Lord Bolingbroke maid mankind mind mournful Muse nature never night numbers nymph o'er once passion Phaon Phoebus plain pleas'd pleasure poem poets Polynices Pope Pope's pow'r praise pride rage reason reign rise sacred Sappho self-love sense shade shine sighs sing skies soft soul spread spring swain sylphs tears Thalestris Thebes thee Theocritus things thou thought trees trembling Twas Tydeus Vertumnus Virg Virgil virgin virtue wife winds wise wretched youth
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Page 90 - The little engine on his fingers' ends; This just behind Belinda's neck he spread, As o'er the fragrant steams she bends her head. Swift to the Lock a thousand Sprites repair...
Page 124 - 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 125 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd 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...
Page 156 - To man's low passions, or their glorious ends, Teach me, like thee, in various nature wise, To fall with dignity, with temper rise; Form'd by thy converse, happily to steer, From grave to gay, from lively to severe ; Correct with spirit, eloquent with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to please.
Page 100 - Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill ; But of the two less dangerous is th' offence 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.
Page 164 - Perhaps prosperity becalm'd his breast, Perhaps the wind just shifted from the east. Not therefore humble he who seeks retreat ; Pride guides his steps, and bids him shun the great.
Page 130 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Page 166 - Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise: Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him or he dies; Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke.
Page 139 - replies a pamper'd goose : And just as short of reason he must fall, Who thinks all made for one, not one for all.
Page 128 - Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.