The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with a life, by A. Dyce, Volume 31863 |
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... genius kindles , and fair fame inspires , Bless'd 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 ...
... genius kindles , and fair fame inspires , Bless'd 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 ...
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... genius bloom , Neglected die , and tell it on his tomb : Of all thy blameless life the sole return My verse , and Queensberry weeping o'er thy urn ! Oh ! let me live my own , and die so too ! ( To live and die is all I have to do ) ...
... genius bloom , Neglected die , and tell it on his tomb : Of all thy blameless life the sole return My verse , and Queensberry weeping o'er thy urn ! Oh ! let me live my own , and die so too ! ( To live and die is all I have to do ) ...
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... genius never can lie still : " And then for mine obligingly mistakes The first lampoon Sir Will * or Bubo5 makes . Poor guiltless I ! and can I choose but smile , When every coxcomb knows me by my style ? Curst be the verse , how well ...
... genius never can lie still : " And then for mine obligingly mistakes The first lampoon Sir Will * or Bubo5 makes . Poor guiltless I ! and can I choose but smile , When every coxcomb knows me by my style ? Curst be the verse , how well ...
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... genius of the stubborn plain , Almost as quickly as he conquer'd Spain . Envy must own I live among the great , No pimp of pleasure , and no spy of state , With eyes that pry not , tongue that ne'er repeats , Fond to spread friendships ...
... genius of the stubborn plain , Almost as quickly as he conquer'd Spain . Envy must own I live among the great , No pimp of pleasure , and no spy of state , With eyes that pry not , tongue that ne'er repeats , Fond to spread friendships ...
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... genius at an opera song- To say too much might do my honour wrong . Take him with all his virtues on my word ; His whole ambition was to serve a lord . 1 Colonel Cotterell , of Rousham , near Oxford . But , sir , to you with what would ...
... genius at an opera song- To say too much might do my honour wrong . Take him with all his virtues on my word ; His whole ambition was to serve a lord . 1 Colonel Cotterell , of Rousham , near Oxford . But , sir , to you with what would ...
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Page 8 - Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar Toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Page 8 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Page 352 - 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 restor'd; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all.
Page 352 - Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest, Clos'd one by one to everlasting rest; Thus at her felt approach, and secret might, Art after Art goes out, and all is Night: See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head!
Page 135 - Berkshire, •This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an honest man : A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace.
Page 129 - Yet soft his nature, though severe his lay, His anger moral, and his wisdom gay. Blest satirist ! who touch'd the mean so true, As show'd, vice had his hate and pity too. Blest courtier ! who could king and country please, Yet sacred keep his friendships, and his ease. Blest peer ! his great forefathers...
Page 72 - Bright through the rubbish of some hundred years ; Command old words, that Ion*; have slept, to wake, Words that wise Bacon or brave Raleigh spake ; Or bid the new be English ages hence (For use will father what's begot by sense); Pour the full tide of eloquence along, Serenely pure, and yet divinely strong, Rich with the treasures of each foreign tongue...