The British Poets, Volume 2Little, Brown & Company, 1866 |
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... Apollo's spite , There are who judge still worse than he can write . Some have at first for wits , then poets past ; Turn'd critics next , and prov'd plain fools at last . Some neither can for wits nor critics pass , As 4 THE POEMS.
... Apollo's spite , There are who judge still worse than he can write . Some have at first for wits , then poets past ; Turn'd critics next , and prov'd plain fools at last . Some neither can for wits nor critics pass , As 4 THE POEMS.
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... plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails , The solid power of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play , The memory's soft figures melt away . One science only will one genius fit ; So vast is art , so narrow ...
... plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails , The solid power of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play , The memory's soft figures melt away . One science only will one genius fit ; So vast is art , so narrow ...
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... plain , without invention's aid , Write dull receipts how poems may be made ; These leave the sense their learning to display , And those explain the meaning quite away . You then whose judgment the right course would steer , Know well ...
... plain , without invention's aid , Write dull receipts how poems may be made ; These leave the sense their learning to display , And those explain the meaning quite away . You then whose judgment the right course would steer , Know well ...
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... plain . " Thus critics of less judgment than caprice , Curious , not knowing , not exact , but nice , Form short ideas , and offend in arts ( As most in manners ) , by a love to parts . Some to conceit alone their taste confine , And ...
... plain . " Thus critics of less judgment than caprice , Curious , not knowing , not exact , but nice , Form short ideas , and offend in arts ( As most in manners ) , by a love to parts . Some to conceit alone their taste confine , And ...
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... plain , Flies o'er th ' unbending corn , and skims along the main . Hear how Timotheus ' varied lays surprise , And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! While at each change the son of Libyan Jove Now burns with glory , and then melts ...
... plain , Flies o'er th ' unbending corn , and skims along the main . Hear how Timotheus ' varied lays surprise , And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! While at each change the son of Libyan Jove Now burns with glory , and then melts ...
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Ambrose Philips ANTISTROPHE Balaam beauty behold bless'd blessing bliss breast breath Brobdingnag Cæsar Catiline charms Countess of Suffolk cried critics crown'd dame dear death e'en e'er ease envy EPISTLE ESSAY ON CRITICISM Eurydice Eustace Budgell eyes fair fame fate fire fix'd flame fool gentle gold grace Gulliver's Travels happiness heart Heaven honour Houyhnhnm join'd king knave knight lady learn'd learning live lord lov'd lyre man's mankind mind mortal Muse nature nature's ne'er never numbers nymph o'er once Ovid pain parterre passion Phryne pleas'd pleasure poet Pope praise pride proud rage rais'd reason rise rules sage Sappho seem'd self-love SEMICHORUS sense shade shine sigh skies SMIL soft soul spouse squire taste thee things thou thought true Twas tyrant virtue whate'er whole wife wise youth
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Page 47 - Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A Being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest, In doubt to deem himself a God, or Beast; In doubt his Mind or Body to prefer...
Page 152 - The world recedes ; it disappears ! Heaven opens on my eyes ! my ears With sounds seraphic ring ! Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! O grave, where is thy victory ? O death, where is thy sting...
Page 82 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is...
Page 48 - 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 17 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 135 - You show us Rome was glorious, not profuse, And pompous buildings once were things of use; Yet shall, my lord, your just, your noble rules, Fill half the land with imitating fools ; Who random drawings from your sheets shall take; And of one beauty many blunders make...
Page 46 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name : Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point : This kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on thee.
Page 102 - twould a saint provoke" (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke), " No, let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.
Page 17 - whispers through the trees :" If crystal streams " with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with
Page 85 - FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind...