The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with a life, by A. Dyce, Volume 31863 |
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... reason to encourage , -the mistaking a satirist for a libeller ; whereas to a true satirist nothing is so odious as a libeller , for the same reason as to a man truly virtuous nothing is so hateful as a hypocrite . Uni æquus virtuti ...
... reason to encourage , -the mistaking a satirist for a libeller ; whereas to a true satirist nothing is so odious as a libeller , for the same reason as to a man truly virtuous nothing is so hateful as a hypocrite . Uni æquus virtuti ...
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... my retreat the best companions grace , Chiefs out of war , and statesmen out of place : There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul : And he , whose lightning pierc'd th ' Iberian lines 24 THE ...
... my retreat the best companions grace , Chiefs out of war , and statesmen out of place : There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul : And he , whose lightning pierc'd th ' Iberian lines 24 THE ...
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... reason's rules , And not like forty other fools , As thus : " Vouchsafe , O gracious Maker ! To grant me this and t'other acre ; Or , if it be thy will and pleasure , Direct my plough to find a treasure ; But only what my station fits ...
... reason's rules , And not like forty other fools , As thus : " Vouchsafe , O gracious Maker ! To grant me this and t'other acre ; Or , if it be thy will and pleasure , Direct my plough to find a treasure ; But only what my station fits ...
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... reason's voice , which sometimes one can hear , ) ' Friend Pope ! be prudent , let your Muse take And never gallop Pegasus to death ; [ breath , Lest stiff and stately , void of fire or force , You limp , like Blackmore , on a lord ...
... reason's voice , which sometimes one can hear , ) ' Friend Pope ! be prudent , let your Muse take And never gallop Pegasus to death ; [ breath , Lest stiff and stately , void of fire or force , You limp , like Blackmore , on a lord ...
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... reason's laws , These fools demand not pardon , but applause . On Avon's bank , where flowers eternal blow , If I but ask if any weed can grow , One tragic sentence if I dare deride , Which Betterton's grave action dignified , Or well ...
... reason's laws , These fools demand not pardon , but applause . On Avon's bank , where flowers eternal blow , If I but ask if any weed can grow , One tragic sentence if I dare deride , Which Betterton's grave action dignified , Or well ...
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Popular passages
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...