The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Compiled from Original Manuscripts; with a Critical Essay on His Writings and GeniusC. Bathurst, H. Woodfall, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, W. Johnston, B. White, T. Caslon, T. Longman, B. Law, Johnson and Payne, S. Bladon, T. Cadell, and the executors of A. Millar., 1769 - 578 էջ |
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... . Several inftances likewife will be occafionally produced from his unpublished letters , of the ftrict correspondence between his public and private fentiments . Such ftrict THE LIFE OF shall a regard for his virtues, be an inducement ...
... . Several inftances likewife will be occafionally produced from his unpublished letters , of the ftrict correspondence between his public and private fentiments . Such ftrict THE LIFE OF shall a regard for his virtues, be an inducement ...
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... Such a comparison , it is apprehended , will be of fingular benefit ; for a reader cannot fail to receive additional delight and profit , when he is convinced of the fince- rity of the writer's fentiments : which cannot be better ...
... Such a comparison , it is apprehended , will be of fingular benefit ; for a reader cannot fail to receive additional delight and profit , when he is convinced of the fince- rity of the writer's fentiments : which cannot be better ...
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... that the legitimate use of mufic is to temper the paffions , in fupport of reafon . In the two first lines therefore , this useful pro- pofition positionî isy delivebed ; as such always should be , ALEXANDER POPE , Esq . 61.
... that the legitimate use of mufic is to temper the paffions , in fupport of reafon . In the two first lines therefore , this useful pro- pofition positionî isy delivebed ; as such always should be , ALEXANDER POPE , Esq . 61.
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... such always should be , whether in poetry or profe , with great fimpli city . But the proof of it , in the various in- ftances of its truth ; he delivers in all the fub- lime of poetic thought and expreffion . Sin eqoi zucntire But our ...
... such always should be , whether in poetry or profe , with great fimpli city . But the proof of it , in the various in- ftances of its truth ; he delivers in all the fub- lime of poetic thought and expreffion . Sin eqoi zucntire But our ...
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... Such as write with the court - like eafe which Mr. POPE fpeaks of , are most apt to fall into a confufion of metaphors . It is not the correctnefs and accuracy , but the fancy and ease of Petronius , which our poet commends , and which ...
... Such as write with the court - like eafe which Mr. POPE fpeaks of , are most apt to fall into a confufion of metaphors . It is not the correctnefs and accuracy , but the fancy and ease of Petronius , which our poet commends , and which ...
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Էջ 265 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Էջ 231 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!
Էջ 123 - In some lone isle, or distant northern land; Where the gilt chariot never marks the way, Where none learn ombre, none e'er taste bohea!
Էջ 231 - 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; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err...
Էջ 192 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Էջ 124 - Who would not scorn what Housewife's Cares produce, Or who would learn one earthly Thing of Use ? To patch, nay ogle, might become a Saint, Nor could it sure be such a Sin to paint. But since, alas ! frail Beauty must decay...
Էջ 163 - Come, Abelard ! for what hast thou to dread ? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature stands check'd ; Religion disapproves ; Ev'n thou art cold — yet Eloisa loves. 260 Ah hopeless, lasting flames ! like those that burn To light the dead, and warm th
Էջ 381 - But chief her shrine where naked Venus keeps, And Cupids ride the Lion of the Deeps; Where, eas'd of Fleets, the Adriatic main Wafts the smooth Eunuch and enamour'd swain.
Էջ 80 - She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For, as in bodies, thus in souls we find, What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Էջ 239 - Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod; The state of Nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man.