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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... used to fay , he could never forgive his philofophic mafter , was the dedication to the effay * . : He likewise read Sir William Temple's effays ; but when he met with any thing political in them , he owned that he had no manner of ...
... used to fay , he could never forgive his philofophic mafter , was the dedication to the effay * . : He likewise read Sir William Temple's effays ; but when he met with any thing political in them , he owned that he had no manner of ...
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... used to obferve , that , during this time , he was like a boy gathering flowers in the fields and woods , juft as they rofe before him ; and he always spoke of these four or five years , which were paffed in mere curiofity and amufement ...
... used to obferve , that , during this time , he was like a boy gathering flowers in the fields and woods , juft as they rofe before him ; and he always spoke of these four or five years , which were paffed in mere curiofity and amufement ...
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... used to fay , that the true ufe of reading was not to know facts , but to under- ftand human nature , and therefore recommended the study of history . " I fhould read , faid he , in a very different manner now than when I had my early ...
... used to fay , that the true ufe of reading was not to know facts , but to under- ftand human nature , and therefore recommended the study of history . " I fhould read , faid he , in a very different manner now than when I had my early ...
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... used to fay , that he had fpent these seven years , in unlearning all that he had acquired before . Many circumftances , however , contributed to fix him in a habit of perfevering industry . His con- ftitution was too infirm and ...
... used to fay , that he had fpent these seven years , in unlearning all that he had acquired before . Many circumftances , however , contributed to fix him in a habit of perfevering industry . His con- ftitution was too infirm and ...
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... used to say , that Dryden had improv- ed the art of verfification beyond any of the preceeding poets , and that he would have been perfect in it , had he not been fo often obliged to write with precipitation . His works , there- fore ...
... used to say , that Dryden had improv- ed the art of verfification beyond any of the preceeding poets , and that he would have been perfect in it , had he not been fo often obliged to write with precipitation . His works , there- fore ...
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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.