The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions and Improvements, Volume 1T. & G. Palmer, 1804 - 754 pages |
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... excellent writer were never out of his hands ; they became his model , and from them alone he learn- ed the whole magic of his versification . The first of our author's compositions now extant in print is an " Ode on Solitude ...
... excellent writer were never out of his hands ; they became his model , and from them alone he learn- ed the whole magic of his versification . The first of our author's compositions now extant in print is an " Ode on Solitude ...
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... excellent writer himself established . If this was the failing of Mr. Addison , it was not the error of Pope , for he kept the strictest correspondence with some persons whose affections to the whig inte- rest were suspected , yet was ...
... excellent writer himself established . If this was the failing of Mr. Addison , it was not the error of Pope , for he kept the strictest correspondence with some persons whose affections to the whig inte- rest were suspected , yet was ...
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... excellent a wit ; and she , on the other hand , with a goodness and frankness peculiar to her , protested to forgive it ; so that there remained no animosities between those two great admirers and translators of Homer . Mr. Pope , by ...
... excellent a wit ; and she , on the other hand , with a goodness and frankness peculiar to her , protested to forgive it ; so that there remained no animosities between those two great admirers and translators of Homer . Mr. Pope , by ...
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... excellent materials for a general satire . This satire he planned and executed with so extraordinary a mastery , that it is by far the most complete poem of our author's ; it is entitled the Dunciad , and discovers more invention , and ...
... excellent materials for a general satire . This satire he planned and executed with so extraordinary a mastery , that it is by far the most complete poem of our author's ; it is entitled the Dunciad , and discovers more invention , and ...
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... excellent kind of writing than the satiric , and , consequently , he who excels in the most excel- lent species must undoubtedly be esteemed the great- est poet . Mr. Pope has very happily succeeded in many of his occasional pieces ...
... excellent kind of writing than the satiric , and , consequently , he who excels in the most excel- lent species must undoubtedly be esteemed the great- est poet . Mr. Pope has very happily succeeded in many of his occasional pieces ...
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Abelard Addison ALEXANDER POPE ancient ANTISTROPHE appear appear'd bard beauty behold blush breast breath bright charms courser crown'd Cynthus Daph Daphne delight Dryden Dunciad earth eclogues envy eternal Ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame fate fire fix'd flames flocks flood flow'rs forests gales genius glory goddess grace groves hear heart heav'n Homer honour Iliad kind lays Lesbian live Lord Bolingbroke lov'd lyre Mac Flecknoe mournful Muses nature numbers nymph o'er once op'ning pastoral Phaon plains poem poet poetry Pope Pope's pow'r praise pray'r resound rise rocks sacred Sappho satire scene SEMICHORUS shade shepherds shine shore sighs silver sing Sir Richard Steele skies soft song soul spring strains streams Streph sung swains sylvan tears tender thee Theocritus thine thou thought translation trees trembling tuneful verses Virgil weep winds Windsor write youth
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Page 21 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer: Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike ; Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Page 21 - Dreading ev'n fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little Senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars ev'ry sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise: Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he?
Page 176 - And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast: There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow; While angels with their silver wings o'ershade The ground now sacred by thy relics made. So peaceful rests, without a stone, a name, What once had beauty, titles, wealth, and fame.
Page 21 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Page 174 - Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes, The glorious fault of angels and of gods; Thence to their images on earth it flows, And in the breasts of kings and heroes glows.
Page 122 - The swain in barren deserts with surprise Sees lilies spring, and sudden verdure rise ; And starts amidst the thirsty wilds to hear New falls of water murmuring in his ear.
Page 17 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Page 121 - Oh spring to light, auspicious Babe, be born ! See, Nature hastes her earliest wreaths to bring, With all the incense of the breathing spring...
Page 123 - The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead, And boys in flowery bands the tiger lead : The steer and lion at one crib shall meet, And harmless serpents lick the pilgrim's feet.
Page 164 - Thy life a long dead calm of fix'd repose; No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows. Still as the sea, ere winds were taught to blow, Or moving spirit bade the waters flow; Soft as the slumbers of a saint forgiv'n, And mild as op'ning gleams of promis'd heav'n.