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... Living of Taylor and the Tatler of Steele , and less than fifty years between Samson Agonistes , which Bishop Atterbury asked Pope to polish , and the poems of Prior . Yet in that short space not only is the form .2 THE AGE OF POPE .
... Living of Taylor and the Tatler of Steele , and less than fifty years between Samson Agonistes , which Bishop Atterbury asked Pope to polish , and the poems of Prior . Yet in that short space not only is the form .2 THE AGE OF POPE .
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... Tatler , on the Danish winter ; ' and two years later he says to his friend Caryll : Mr. Philips has two lines which seem to me what the French call very picturesque , that I cannot omit to you : ' All hid in snow in bright confusion ...
... Tatler , on the Danish winter ; ' and two years later he says to his friend Caryll : Mr. Philips has two lines which seem to me what the French call very picturesque , that I cannot omit to you : ' All hid in snow in bright confusion ...
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... Tatler , the Spectator , the Guardian , and some of the essay - volumes which follow in their wake , will be blind to one of the most significant literary features of the period . The alliance between Addison and Steele was so inti ...
... Tatler , the Spectator , the Guardian , and some of the essay - volumes which follow in their wake , will be blind to one of the most significant literary features of the period . The alliance between Addison and Steele was so inti ...
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... Tatler and Spectator would make his name familiar to future generations . Addison's poetry may now be regarded as extinct , and most of the poems he wrote are probably unknown to the present generation of readers even by name . His ...
... Tatler and Spectator would make his name familiar to future generations . Addison's poetry may now be regarded as extinct , and most of the poems he wrote are probably unknown to the present generation of readers even by name . His ...
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... Tatler , its supposed author being the Isaac Bicker- staff , whose name , thanks to Swift , had been ' rendered famous through all parts of Europe . ' The essays appeared every Tuesday , Thursday , and Saturday , for the conve- nience ...
... Tatler , its supposed author being the Isaac Bicker- staff , whose name , thanks to Swift , had been ' rendered famous through all parts of Europe . ' The essays appeared every Tuesday , Thursday , and Saturday , for the conve- nience ...
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Page 91 - Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
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 82 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man...
Page 82 - Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity! A beam ethereal, sullied and absorpt! Though sullied and dishonoured, still divine! Dim miniature of greatness absolute! 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 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 89 - As home he goes beneath the joyous moon. Ye that keep watch in heaven, as earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, Ye constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre. Great source of day! best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam His praise.
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 34 - What though no friends in sable weeds appear, Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year, And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances, and the public show?
Page 51 - See Mystery to Mathematics fly! In vain, they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.