The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author, Volume 1Published for the booksellers, 1828 - English poetry |
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... wings , no seraph's fire ; But thinks , admitted to that equal sky , His faithful dog shall bear him company . 4. Go , wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fancy'st ...
... wings , no seraph's fire ; But thinks , admitted to that equal sky , His faithful dog shall bear him company . 4. Go , wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fancy'st ...
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... wings the storms , Pours fierce ambition in a Cæsar's mind , Or turns young Ammon loose to scorge mankind ? From pride , from pride , our very reasoning springs ; Accounts for moral as for natural things : Why charge we Heav'n in those ...
... wings the storms , Pours fierce ambition in a Cæsar's mind , Or turns young Ammon loose to scorge mankind ? From pride , from pride , our very reasoning springs ; Accounts for moral as for natural things : Why charge we Heav'n in those ...
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... wings . Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note . The bounding steed you pompously bestride , Shares with his lord the pleasure and the pride . Is thine alone the seed that strews the ...
... wings . Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note . The bounding steed you pompously bestride , Shares with his lord the pleasure and the pride . Is thine alone the seed that strews the ...
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... wing the sky , or roll along the flood , Each loves itself , but not itself alone , Each sex desires alike , till two are one . Nor ends the pleasure with the fierce embrace : They love themselves a third time in their race . Thus beast ...
... wing the sky , or roll along the flood , Each loves itself , but not itself alone , Each sex desires alike , till two are one . Nor ends the pleasure with the fierce embrace : They love themselves a third time in their race . Thus beast ...
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... wings o'ershade " The ground , now sacred by thy relics made . So peaceful rests , without a stone , a name , What once had beauty , titles , wealth , and fame ; How lov'd , how honoured once , avails thee not , To whom related , or by ...
... wings o'ershade " The ground , now sacred by thy relics made . So peaceful rests , without a stone , a name , What once had beauty , titles , wealth , and fame ; How lov'd , how honoured once , avails thee not , To whom related , or by ...
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Abelard Addison Adrastus ALEXANDER POPE ancient Argos arms Balaam bear beauty Behold Belinda bless'd blest bliss breast breath bright charms critics Cynthus dæmon death dread Dryden earth Eteocles eternal Eurydice ev'n eyes fair fame fate fix'd flame fools fury genius give glory glow gods grace groves hair happiness hate heart Heav'n Homer honour Iliad Jove kind king knave learn'd live lord lov'd mankind mind mournful Muse nature nature's ne'er numbers nymph o'er once passion Phaon Phoebus plain pleas'd pleasure poet Polynices Pope Pope's pow'r praise pray'r pride rage reason reign resound rise rules sacred Sappho self-love sense shade shine sighs sing Sir Richard Steele skies soul sylphs taste taught tears Thalestris Theban Thebes thee Theocritus thine things thou trembling Tydeus virtue winds wings wise wretched youth
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Page 40 - Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar ; Wait the great teacher Death ; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that Hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never Is, but always To be blest: The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 94 - And hence th' egregious wizard shall foredoom The fate of Louis and the fall of Rome. Then cease, bright nymph ! to mourn thy ravish'd hair, Which adds new glory to the shining sphere ! Not all the tresses that fair head can boast, Shall draw such envy as the Lock you lost. For, after all. the murders of your eye, When, after millions slain, yourself shall die ; When those fair suns shall set, as set they must, And all those tresses shall be laid in dust ; This Lock the Muse shall consecrate to fame,...
Page 85 - The little engine on his fingers' ends; This just behind Belinda's neck he spread, As o'er the fragrant steams she bends her head. Swift to the lock a thousand sprites repair, A thousand wings, by turns, blow back the hair; And thrice they twitch'd the diamond in her ear; Thrice she look'd back, and thrice the foe drew near.
Page 74 - And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow ; While angels with their silver wings o'ershade The ground, now sacred by thy relics made.
Page 57 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take: Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Page 195 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years, slide soft away In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day. Sound sleep by night ; study and ease Together mix'd, sweet recreation, And innocence, which most does please With meditation.
Page 154 - Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ; Enough that virtue fill'd the space between, Prov'd by the ends of being to have been.
Page 79 - 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.
Page 45 - Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A Being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest, In doubt to deem himself a God, or Beast; In doubt his Mind or Body to prefer...
Page 70 - Oh! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale?