The whole poetical works of Alexander Pope, Esq., including his translations of Homer's Iliad and OdysseySamuel Johnson A. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... must here fpeak a word of the latter , as it is a point generally carried into extremes , both by the cenfurers and defenders of Homer . It must be a strange partiality to antiquity , to think with madam Dacier , " that * those times ...
... must here fpeak a word of the latter , as it is a point generally carried into extremes , both by the cenfurers and defenders of Homer . It must be a strange partiality to antiquity , to think with madam Dacier , " that * those times ...
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... must have been the greatest poet of his nation , and that he may be faid in this fenfe to be the mafter even of those who furpaffed him . In all these objections we fee nothing that contradicts his title to the honour of the chief ...
... must have been the greatest poet of his nation , and that he may be faid in this fenfe to be the mafter even of those who furpaffed him . In all these objections we fee nothing that contradicts his title to the honour of the chief ...
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... must agree together to call fimplicity , and the rest of the world will call dullness . There is a graceful and dignified fimplicity , as well as a bold and fordid one , which differ as much from each other as the air of a plain man ...
... must agree together to call fimplicity , and the rest of the world will call dullness . There is a graceful and dignified fimplicity , as well as a bold and fordid one , which differ as much from each other as the air of a plain man ...
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... must hope to please but a few : those only who have at once a taste of poetry , and competent learning . For to fatisfy such as want either , is not in the nature of this undertaking , since a mere modern wit can like no- thing that is ...
... must hope to please but a few : those only who have at once a taste of poetry , and competent learning . For to fatisfy such as want either , is not in the nature of this undertaking , since a mere modern wit can like no- thing that is ...
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... must speak what wisdom would conceal , And truths , invadious to the great , reveal . Bold is the task , when subjects grown too wife , Instruct a monarch where his error lies ; 100 ' Tis fore , the Mighty will revenge at last . vain ...
... must speak what wisdom would conceal , And truths , invadious to the great , reveal . Bold is the task , when subjects grown too wife , Instruct a monarch where his error lies ; 100 ' Tis fore , the Mighty will revenge at last . vain ...
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Page 374 - The strength he gains is from th' embrace he gives. On their own axis as the planets run, Yet make at once their circle round the sun; So two consistent motions act the soul; And one regards itself, and one the whole. Thus God and nature link'd the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
Page 388 - To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the column, or the arch to bend, To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot.
Page 10 - For to satisfy such as want either is not in the nature of this undertaking, since a mere modern wit can like nothing that is not modern, and a pedant nothing that is not Greek.
Page 381 - I must paint it. Come then, the colours and the ground prepare ! Dip in the Rainbow, trick her off in Air ; Choose a firm Cloud, before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Page 62 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Page 386 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name...
Page 331 - Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
Page 326 - 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!
Page 471 - Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Page 321 - 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, 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. This nymph, to the destruction of mankind, Nourished two locks, which graceful hung behind In equal curls, and well conspired to deck With...