The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volumen2B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly [and others], 1797 - 3650 páginas |
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... seems strange he should have employed fo much labour on fuch a writer . The very best life of fop is alfo by Mezeriac ; a book fo fcarce , that neither Bentley nor Bayle had feen it when they firft wrote on Æfop . It was reprinted in ...
... seems strange he should have employed fo much labour on fuch a writer . The very best life of fop is alfo by Mezeriac ; a book fo fcarce , that neither Bentley nor Bayle had feen it when they firft wrote on Æfop . It was reprinted in ...
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... seems to have flowed from his having given Eloifa the name of Rose , in one of the many fonnets he addreffed to her . In this romance there are many fevere and fatirical strokes on the character of Eloifa , which the pen of Abelard ...
... seems to have flowed from his having given Eloifa the name of Rose , in one of the many fonnets he addreffed to her . In this romance there are many fevere and fatirical strokes on the character of Eloifa , which the pen of Abelard ...
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... seem to be true , that Eloifa and Abelard found quiet and confolation in retirement and piety . I will just add , that many lines in this epiftle are taken from vari- ous parts of Dryden , particularly the following ones : " A day for ...
... seem to be true , that Eloifa and Abelard found quiet and confolation in retirement and piety . I will just add , that many lines in this epiftle are taken from vari- ous parts of Dryden , particularly the following ones : " A day for ...
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... seems , was jealous of Dante , and in the answer fpeaks coldly of his merits . This circumstance , unobserved by the generality of writers , and even by Fontanini , Crescembini , and Muratori , is brought forward , and related at large ...
... seems , was jealous of Dante , and in the answer fpeaks coldly of his merits . This circumstance , unobserved by the generality of writers , and even by Fontanini , Crescembini , and Muratori , is brought forward , and related at large ...
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... seem'd t ' affect , And here and there difclos'd a brave negled . ] In the fublime , as in great affluence of fortune , fome minute and unimportant articles will unavoidably escape obfervation . But it is almost impoffible for a low and ...
... seem'd t ' affect , And here and there difclos'd a brave negled . ] In the fublime , as in great affluence of fortune , fome minute and unimportant articles will unavoidably escape obfervation . But it is almost impoffible for a low and ...
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Página 37 - Long-sounding aisles, and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence., and a dread repose: Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Página 313 - Inspiration ; his ideas are vast and sublime ; his people are a superior order of beings ; there is nothing about them, nothing in the air of their actions or their attitudes, or the style and cast of their limbs or features, that reminds us of their belonging to our own species.
Página 68 - As when a shepherd of the Hebrid Isles*, Placed far amid the melancholy main, (Whether it be lone fancy him beguiles ; Or that aerial beings sometimes deign To stand embodied, to our senses plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro: Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show.
Página 34 - And Saints with wonder heard the vows I made, Yet then, to those dread altars as I drew...
Página 397 - Go, then, where only bliss sincere is known! Go, where to love and to enjoy are one ! Yet take these tears, Mortality's relief, And, till we share your joys, forgive our grief: These little rites, a stone, a verse receive, Tis all a father, all a friend can give...
Página 306 - Who, careless now of interest, fame, or fate, Perhaps forgets that Oxford e'er was great ; Or deeming meanest what we greatest call, Beholds thee glorious only in thy fall.
Página 401 - 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. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
Página 402 - OF manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit a man, simplicity a child : With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age : Above temptation in a low estate, And uncorrupted ev'n among the great : 6 A safe companion, and an easy friend, Unblam'd thro
Página 38 - Ev'n here, where frozen chastity retires, Love finds an altar for forbidden fires. I ought to grieve, but cannot what I ought; I mourn the lover, not lament the fault; I view my crime, but kindle at the view...
Página 397 - Who knew no Wish but what the world might hear : Of softest manners, unaffected mind, Lover of peace, and friend of human kind : Go live ! for Heav'n's Eternal year is thine, Go, and exalt thy Moral to Divine.