The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeBlackwood, 1860 - 576 pages |
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... verse , this Essay , though ambitious , can scarcely be called satisfactory . We are not about to raise any of those controversies to which its appearance gave birth with respect to the particular philosophy it meant to teach . It is ...
... verse , this Essay , though ambitious , can scarcely be called satisfactory . We are not about to raise any of those controversies to which its appearance gave birth with respect to the particular philosophy it meant to teach . It is ...
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... Verses of his Grace the Duke of Buckingham , 476 Macer . A Character , 476 To Mr John Moore , 477 Song , by a Person of Quality , 478 On a Certain Lady at Court , 480 On his Grotto at Twickenham , 480 To Mr Gay , 481 Roxana , or the ...
... Verses of his Grace the Duke of Buckingham , 476 Macer . A Character , 476 To Mr John Moore , 477 Song , by a Person of Quality , 478 On a Certain Lady at Court , 480 On his Grotto at Twickenham , 480 To Mr Gay , 481 Roxana , or the ...
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... verses as mine that are not inserted in this collection . And perhaps nothing could make it worth my while to own what are really so , but to avoid the imputation of so many dull and immoral things as , partly by malice and partly by ...
... verses as mine that are not inserted in this collection . And perhaps nothing could make it worth my while to own what are really so , but to avoid the imputation of so many dull and immoral things as , partly by malice and partly by ...
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... verse on this relenting stone : " Let nature change , let heaven and earth deplore , " Fair Daphne's dead , and love is now no more ! " ' Tis done , and nature's various charms decay , See gloomy clouds obscure the cheerful day ! Now ...
... verse on this relenting stone : " Let nature change , let heaven and earth deplore , " Fair Daphne's dead , and love is now no more ! " ' Tis done , and nature's various charms decay , See gloomy clouds obscure the cheerful day ! Now ...
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... verse , the very shrubs cry out , A God , a God ! " - Ecl . iv . " The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness , Prepare ye the way of the Lord ! make straight in the desert a high way for our God ! Every valley shall be exalted ...
... verse , the very shrubs cry out , A God , a God ! " - Ecl . iv . " The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness , Prepare ye the way of the Lord ! make straight in the desert a high way for our God ! Every valley shall be exalted ...
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Adrastus ALEXANDER POPE ancient beauty behold blest breast breath bright charms court critics crown'd Cynthus death divine Dryope Dulness Dunciad eclogue EPISTLE Essay Essay on Criticism eyes fair fame fate fire flames flowers fools genius give glory gnome goddess gods grace groves happy hath head heart Heaven hero honour Iliad Jove kings knave learn'd learned LEONARD WELSTED live lord lyre mankind mind mourn muse nature ne'er never numbers nymph o'er once passion pastoral Phoebus plain pleased poem poet poetry Pope praise pride proud queen rage rhymes rise sacred Sappho satire SEMICHORUS sense shade shine sighs silvan sing skies smiles soft soul swain sylphs taste tears Thalestris Thebes thee Theocritus thine things thou thought trembling truth Umbriel verse Virgil virgin virtue winds wings wretched write youth
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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...
Page 181 - 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 432 - See Mystery to Mathematics fly! In vain, they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Page 146 - 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 54 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
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...
Page 57 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home ; Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court ; In various talk th...
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