Lectures and Addresses in Aid of Popular Education; Including a Lecture on the Poetry of Pope |
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... feel sure , candid and enlightened men ) , as well as for doing justice to my own character as a critic , is to state frankly what I do not claim for my client , the late Alexander Pope . I do not , then , pre- tend to place him on the ...
... feel sure , candid and enlightened men ) , as well as for doing justice to my own character as a critic , is to state frankly what I do not claim for my client , the late Alexander Pope . I do not , then , pre- tend to place him on the ...
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... feel that I shall make way in proportion as the testimony I adduce proceeds from lips more trustworthy than my own . What says Savage , a poet himself of irregular but no mean genius ? He thus speaks of Pope : - 66 Though gay as mirth ...
... feel that I shall make way in proportion as the testimony I adduce proceeds from lips more trustworthy than my own . What says Savage , a poet himself of irregular but no mean genius ? He thus speaks of Pope : - 66 Though gay as mirth ...
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... feel quite sure that both the " Pollio " of Virgil and the " Messiah " of Pope fall immeasurably below the prose translation of Isaiah in our Bibles . " Windsor Forest " appears to be on the whole a cold production . It contains some ...
... feel quite sure that both the " Pollio " of Virgil and the " Messiah " of Pope fall immeasurably below the prose translation of Isaiah in our Bibles . " Windsor Forest " appears to be on the whole a cold production . It contains some ...
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... it combines in a high degree poetic diction with pathetic feeling . The concluding lines are most touching : B " Poets themselves must fall , like those they sung ON THE POETRY OF POPE 17 Its establishment in Ohio and Missouri 17-24.
... it combines in a high degree poetic diction with pathetic feeling . The concluding lines are most touching : B " Poets themselves must fall , like those they sung ON THE POETRY OF POPE 17 Its establishment in Ohio and Missouri 17-24.
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... feel happy to find myself in full acquiescence with Lord Byron , who says , " He should have written , rose to truth . In my mind the highest of all poetry is ethical poetry , as the highest of all earthly subjects must be moral truth ...
... feel happy to find myself in full acquiescence with Lord Byron , who says , " He should have written , rose to truth . In my mind the highest of all poetry is ethical poetry , as the highest of all earthly subjects must be moral truth ...
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Page 22 - Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer...
Page 14 - Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest; The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 28 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 14 - 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 them all.
Page 26 - Seen him, uneumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. Would he oblige me? let me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind.
Page 67 - ... the Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing : which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
Page 29 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood! The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line...
Page 30 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men, not afraid of God, afraid of me; Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touch'd and shamed by ridicule alone.
Page 22 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 13 - True wit is nature to advantage dressed, — What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.