The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeBlackwood, 1860 - 576 pages |
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... place - the same sort of uneasiness as I find at Twickenham whenever I pass my mother's room . Life , after the first heats are over , is all down hill , and one almost wishes the journey's end , provided we were sure MEMOIR OF POPE . xi.
... place - the same sort of uneasiness as I find at Twickenham whenever I pass my mother's room . Life , after the first heats are over , is all down hill , and one almost wishes the journey's end , provided we were sure MEMOIR OF POPE . xi.
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Alexander Pope. almost wishes the journey's end , provided we were sure to lie down easy whenever the night shall overtake us . " 99 The spectacle of Swift , lost to letters years before death put a period to his earthly pilgrimage , was ...
Alexander Pope. almost wishes the journey's end , provided we were sure to lie down easy whenever the night shall overtake us . " 99 The spectacle of Swift , lost to letters years before death put a period to his earthly pilgrimage , was ...
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... sure , upon the whole , a bad author deserves better usage than a bad critic ; for a writer's endeavour , for the most part , is to please his readers , and he fails merely through the misfortune of an ill judgment ; but such a critic's ...
... sure , upon the whole , a bad author deserves better usage than a bad critic ; for a writer's endeavour , for the most part , is to please his readers , and he fails merely through the misfortune of an ill judgment ; but such a critic's ...
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... sure to be commended by the best and most knowing , he is as sure of being envied by the worst and most ignorant , which are the majority ; for it is with a fine genius as with a fine fashion , all those are displeased at it who are not ...
... sure to be commended by the best and most knowing , he is as sure of being envied by the worst and most ignorant , which are the majority ; for it is with a fine genius as with a fine fashion , all those are displeased at it who are not ...
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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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Page 90 - 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 226 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
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Page 144 - Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield ! The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar ; Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise: Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Page 152 - 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...
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Page 146 - In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel ; And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th