Pope's Rape of the LockClarendon Press, 1909 - 102 pages |
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... seems if anything less remote from us in point of feeling than the Augustan , we can nevertheless see the value to English literature of the discipline it then received , and realize how much the poetry , and still more the prose , of ...
... seems if anything less remote from us in point of feeling than the Augustan , we can nevertheless see the value to English literature of the discipline it then received , and realize how much the poetry , and still more the prose , of ...
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... seems to be little doubt that Pope was referring to it when he wrote to Caryll on August 2 in that year : ' I have a little poetical present to make you , which I dare not trust by the post , and could be glad you would please to direct ...
... seems to be little doubt that Pope was referring to it when he wrote to Caryll on August 2 in that year : ' I have a little poetical present to make you , which I dare not trust by the post , and could be glad you would please to direct ...
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... seem to be fairly clear that Pope was not then personally acquainted with either Miss Fermor or with Lord Petre , and that Warburton , who was what we should nowadays call Pope's ' literary executor ' , was mistaken in his statement ...
... seem to be fairly clear that Pope was not then personally acquainted with either Miss Fermor or with Lord Petre , and that Warburton , who was what we should nowadays call Pope's ' literary executor ' , was mistaken in his statement ...
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... seem to prove that Pope was not personally acquainted , at all events , with Miss Fermor , when The Rape of the Lock was originally written . With regard to the motto from Martial , Pope substituted for this in the enlarged edition ...
... seem to prove that Pope was not personally acquainted , at all events , with Miss Fermor , when The Rape of the Lock was originally written . With regard to the motto from Martial , Pope substituted for this in the enlarged edition ...
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... of course closed to them . Young Pope's first teacher seems to have been an old aunt ' , who taught him to read , and he taught himself to write by copying printed books . " When he was about eight years old he was entrusted.
... of course closed to them . Young Pope's first teacher seems to have been an old aunt ' , who taught him to read , and he taught himself to write by copying printed books . " When he was about eight years old he was entrusted.
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Page 49 - In heaps on heaps ; one fate o'erwhelms them all. The Knave of Diamonds tries his wily arts, And wins (oh shameful chance !) the Queen of Hearts. At this, the blood the virgin's cheek forsook, A livid paleness spreads o'er all her look ; She sees, and trembles at th' approaching ill, Just in the jaws of ruin, and codille.
Page 59 - Now Jove suspends his golden scales in air, Weighs the men's wits against the lady's hair; The doubtful beam long nods from side to side; At length the wits mount up, the hairs subside. See fierce Belinda on the baron flies, With more than usual lightning in her eyes: Nor fear'd the chief th' unequal fight to try, Who sought no more than on his foe to die.
Page 44 - Or roll the planets through the boundless sky. Some less refined, beneath the moon's pale light Pursue the stars that shoot athwart the night, Or suck the mists in grosser air below, Or dip their .pinions in the painted bow, Or brew fierce tempests on the wintry main...
Page 46 - Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home; Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Page 41 - Now awful beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms, Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face : Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes.
Page 54 - Soft sorrows, melting griefs, and flowing tears. The gnome rejoicing bears her gifts away, Spreads his black wings, and slowly mounts to day. Sunk in Thalestris' arms the nymph he found, Her eyes dejected, and her hair unbound.
Page 37 - Of airy Elves by moonlight shadows seen, The silver token, and the circled green, Or virgins visited by Angel-pow'rs, With golden crowns and wreaths of heav'nly flow'rs ; Hear and believe!
Page 55 - She said ; then raging to Sir Plume repairs, And bids her Beau demand the precious hairs: (Sir Plume of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane...
Page 42 - 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. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride 15 Might hide her faults, if Belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Page 50 - And see through all things with his half-shut eyes) Sent up in vapours to the baron's brain New stratagems the radiant lock to gain.