The Age of PopeG. Bell, 1896 - 258 pages |
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Page 10
... Edition of Waller's Posthumous Poems , which Mr. Gosse believes was written by Atterbury , and he considers that this is the original occurrence of the phrase . - From Shakespeare to Pope , p . 248 . guarded by watchmen scarcely better ...
... Edition of Waller's Posthumous Poems , which Mr. Gosse believes was written by Atterbury , and he considers that this is the original occurrence of the phrase . - From Shakespeare to Pope , p . 248 . guarded by watchmen scarcely better ...
Page 37
... edition of the poet's works , praises a fine passage from the Iliad , which in his judgment attains perhaps the highest level of which the heroic . couplet is capable , and ' I do not believe , ' he adds , ' that any Englishman of taste ...
... edition of the poet's works , praises a fine passage from the Iliad , which in his judgment attains perhaps the highest level of which the heroic . couplet is capable , and ' I do not believe , ' he adds , ' that any Englishman of taste ...
Page 39
... edition of Shakespeare , a task as difficult as any which a man of letters can undertake . Pope was not qualified to achieve it . He was compara- tively ignorant of Elizabethan literature , the dry labours of an editor were not to his ...
... edition of Shakespeare , a task as difficult as any which a man of letters can undertake . Pope was not qualified to achieve it . He was compara- tively ignorant of Elizabethan literature , the dry labours of an editor were not to his ...
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... edition of Pope . It will be there seen how the poet compiled fictitious letters , suppressed passages , altered dates , manufactured letters out of other letters , and secretly enabled the infamous bookseller Curll to publish his ...
... edition of Pope . It will be there seen how the poet compiled fictitious letters , suppressed passages , altered dates , manufactured letters out of other letters , and secretly enabled the infamous bookseller Curll to publish his ...
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... edition of the letters was taken from an impression sent from England and sent by Pope . Nor was this all . The poet acted with still greater meanness , for he had the audacity to deplore the sad vanity of Swift in permitting the ...
... edition of the letters was taken from an impression sent from England and sent by Pope . Nor was this all . The poet acted with still greater meanness , for he had the audacity to deplore the sad vanity of Swift in permitting the ...
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Popular passages
Page 110 - I hear a voice, you cannot hear, Which says, I must not stay ; I see a hand, you cannot see, Which beckons me away.
Page 89 - The impetuous song, and say from whom you rage. His praise, ye brooks, attune, ye trembling rills ; And let me catch it, as I muse along. Ye headlong torrents, rapid, and profound; Ye softer floods, that lead the humid maze Along the vale ; and thou, majestic main, A secret world of wonders in thyself, Sound His stupendous praise ; whose greater voice Or bids you roar, or bids your roarings fall. Soft roll your incense, herbs, and fruits, and flowers, In mingled clouds to Him ; whose sun exalts,...
Page 45 - There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...
Page 82 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man ! How passing wonder He who made him such ! Who centered in our make such strange extremes.
Page 220 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Page 117 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome — at an inn.
Page 148 - She was a very beautiful woman, of a noble spirit, and there was a dignity in her grief amidst all the wildness of her transport which, methought, struck me with an instinct of sorrow, that, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since.
Page 32 - 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...
Page 82 - An heir of glory! a frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! insect infinite! A worm! — a god! — I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost!
Page 82 - A worm ! a god ! I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost. At home a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast. And wondering at her own. How reason reels . O, what a miracle to man is man ! Triumphantly distressed!