Poetical Works: To which is Prefixed a Life of the AuthorCrosby, Nichols, Lee & Company, 1860 |
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... lished some months ago , is a master - piece in its kind The observations follow one another , like those in Horace's Art of Poetry , without that methodical re gularity which would have been requisite in a prose- writer LIFE OF POPE .
... lished some months ago , is a master - piece in its kind The observations follow one another , like those in Horace's Art of Poetry , without that methodical re gularity which would have been requisite in a prose- writer LIFE OF POPE .
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... upon Dryden in the article of ver- sification , and in that part of poetry is greatly his su crior But though this must be acknowledged , per haps it will not necessarily follow that his genius was 3 LIFE OF POPE . rxxiji.
... upon Dryden in the article of ver- sification , and in that part of poetry is greatly his su crior But though this must be acknowledged , per haps it will not necessarily follow that his genius was 3 LIFE OF POPE . rxxiji.
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... follow that his genius was therefore superior . The grand characteristic of a poet is his inven tion , the surest distinction of a great genius . In Mr. Pope nothing is so truly original as his Rape of the Lock , nor discovers so much ...
... follow that his genius was therefore superior . The grand characteristic of a poet is his inven tion , the surest distinction of a great genius . In Mr. Pope nothing is so truly original as his Rape of the Lock , nor discovers so much ...
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... follow Nature , and regard his end ; Or looks on Heaven with more than mortal eyes , Bids his free soul expatiate in the skies , Amid her kindred stars familiar roam , Survey the region , and confess her home ! Such was the life great ...
... follow Nature , and regard his end ; Or looks on Heaven with more than mortal eyes , Bids his free soul expatiate in the skies , Amid her kindred stars familiar roam , Survey the region , and confess her home ! Such was the life great ...
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... follow nature , and your judgment frame By her just standard , which is still the same : Unerring nature , still divinely bright , One clear , unchanged , and universal light , Life , force , and beauty , must to all impart , At once ...
... follow nature , and your judgment frame By her just standard , which is still the same : Unerring nature , still divinely bright , One clear , unchanged , and universal light , Life , force , and beauty , must to all impart , At once ...
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Page 269 - To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill; And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than Hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue.
Page 74 - Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose, Now one in verse makes many more in prose. 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 269 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe.
Page 84 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
Page 110 - And screen'd in shades from day's detested glare, She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her side, and Megrim at her head.
Page 90 - Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do ; Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Page 278 - Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise: Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him or he dies; Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke.
Page 99 - To one man's treat, but for another's ball ? When Florio speaks, what virgin could withstand, If gentle Damon did not squeeze her hand ? With varying vanities, from ev'ry part, They shift the moving toyshop of their heart; Where wigs with wigs, with sword-knots sword-knots strive, Beaux banish beaux, and coaches coaches drive.
Page 81 - Th' increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise ! A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ ; Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The generous pleasure to be charm'd with wit.
Page 102 - But chiefly Love — to Love an altar built, Of twelve vast French romances, neatly gilt. There lay three garters, half a pair of gloves, And all the trophies of his former loves ; With tender billet-doux he lights the pyre, And breathes three am'rous sighs to raise the fire.