The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... Bless'd with a taste exact , yet unconfined , A knowledge both of books and humankind ; Generous converse ; a soul exempt from pride ; And love to praise , with reason on his side ? Such once were critics ; such the happy few Athens and ...
... Bless'd with a taste exact , yet unconfined , A knowledge both of books and humankind ; Generous converse ; a soul exempt from pride ; And love to praise , with reason on his side ? Such once were critics ; such the happy few Athens and ...
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... bless'd to - day is as completely so As who began a thousand years ago . [ fate , 3. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of All but the page prescribed , their present state : From brutes what men , from men what spirits know ; Or ...
... bless'd to - day is as completely so As who began a thousand years ago . [ fate , 3. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of All but the page prescribed , their present state : From brutes what men , from men what spirits know ; Or ...
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... bless'd 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 the ' Eternal Cause . 5. Ask for what ...
... bless'd 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 the ' Eternal Cause . 5. Ask for what ...
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... bless'd with all ? The bliss of man ( could pride that blessing find ) Is not to act or think beyond mankind ; No powers of body or of soul to share , But what his nature and his state can bear . Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For ...
... bless'd with all ? The bliss of man ( could pride that blessing find ) Is not to act or think beyond mankind ; No powers of body or of soul to share , But what his nature and his state can bear . Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For ...
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... bless'd as thou canst bear ; Safe in the hand of one disposing Power , Or in the natal or the mortal hour . All Nature is but Art unknown to thee ; All Chance , Direction , which thou canst not see ' ; All Discord , Harmony not ...
... bless'd as thou canst bear ; Safe in the hand of one disposing Power , Or in the natal or the mortal hour . All Nature is but Art unknown to thee ; All Chance , Direction , which thou canst not see ' ; All Discord , Harmony not ...
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ALEXANDER POPE angels ANTISTROPHE Balaam Bavius beauty behold bless'd blessing bliss breast breath Cæsar CALIFORN Catiline charms cried crown'd cursed dame dear death divine Dunciad e'en e'er ease envy EPISTLE Eurydice eyes fair fame fate fire fix'd flame fool gentle give GODFREY KNELLER gold grace happiness hate heart Heaven honour join'd kings knave knight learn'd learning live lord Lord Bolingbroke lyre man's mankind mind mortal Muse Nature Nature's ne'er never numbers nymph o'er once pain Parnassian parterre pass'd passion Phryné pleased pleasure poet Pope praise pride Procris proud rage reason rest rise rules sage Sappho Self-love SEMICHORUS sense shade shine sigh skies SMIL soft soul spouse taste tears tell thee thine things thou thought true truth Twas tyrant Vex'd virtue WESTMINSTER ABBEY whate'er whole wife wise