The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4Ingram, Cooke, 1854 |
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Page 84
... beauty many blunders make ; Load some vain church with old theatric state , Turn acts of triumph to a garden - gate ; 30 Reverse your ornaments , and hang them all On some patch'd dog - hole eked with ends of wall ; Then clap four ...
... beauty many blunders make ; Load some vain church with old theatric state , Turn acts of triumph to a garden - gate ; 30 Reverse your ornaments , and hang them all On some patch'd dog - hole eked with ends of wall ; Then clap four ...
Page 85
... beauty everywhere be spied , Where half the skill is decently to hide . He gains all points , who pleasingly confounds , Surprises , varies , and conceals the bounds . Consult the genius of the place in all : That tells the waters or to ...
... beauty everywhere be spied , Where half the skill is decently to hide . He gains all points , who pleasingly confounds , Surprises , varies , and conceals the bounds . Consult the genius of the place in all : That tells the waters or to ...
Page 96
... beauty and magnificence . tant . The grounds of Stowe lie close to the town of Buckingham - one of the smallest and most decayed - looking county towns in England . The streets and red - tiled houses , the little gardens and orchards ...
... beauty and magnificence . tant . The grounds of Stowe lie close to the town of Buckingham - one of the smallest and most decayed - looking county towns in England . The streets and red - tiled houses , the little gardens and orchards ...
Page 99
... beauty , and in another elevating him by combinations of picturesqueness and sublimity . The per- fection of art is seen in the disposition of the grounds - in their endless variety , connexion , and contrast . The buildings may seem to ...
... beauty , and in another elevating him by combinations of picturesqueness and sublimity . The per- fection of art is seen in the disposition of the grounds - in their endless variety , connexion , and contrast . The buildings may seem to ...
Page 100
... beauty , and terminating points , were , he argued , as insipid as the artificial objects they condemned - and Price was right in the main . Their only merit was first directing public attention to more natural and simple combinations ...
... beauty , and terminating points , were , he argued , as insipid as the artificial objects they condemned - and Price was right in the main . Their only merit was first directing public attention to more natural and simple combinations ...
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Page 76 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 112 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Page 117 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; 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 105 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Page 67 - Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Page 87 - His gardens next your admiration call, On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Page 59 - Who hung with woods yon mountain's sultry brow ? From the dry rock who bade the waters flow ? Not to the skies in useless columns tost...
Page 91 - Flood contain, The Mole projected break the roaring Main; Back to his bounds their subject Sea command, And roll obedient Rivers thro' the Land: These Honours, Peace to happy Britain brings, These are Imperial Works, and worthy Kings.
Page 132 - There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...
Page 112 - While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...