The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volumen2B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly [and others], 1797 - 3650 páginas |
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... 75. " Love will not be confin'd by Maifterie : nek éd to " When Maisterie comes , the Lord of Love anon " Flutters his wings ; and forthwith is he gone . " CHAUCER . P. Let ! I Let wealth , let honour , wait the 32 ELOISA TO ABELARD .
... 75. " Love will not be confin'd by Maifterie : nek éd to " When Maisterie comes , the Lord of Love anon " Flutters his wings ; and forthwith is he gone . " CHAUCER . P. Let ! I Let wealth , let honour , wait the 32 ELOISA TO ABELARD .
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Alexander Pope ! I Let wealth , let honour , wait the wedded dame , Auguft her deed , and facred be her fame ; Before true paffion all thofe views remove ; Fame , wealth , and honour ! what are you to Love ? The jealous God , when we ...
Alexander Pope ! I Let wealth , let honour , wait the wedded dame , Auguft her deed , and facred be her fame ; Before true paffion all thofe views remove ; Fame , wealth , and honour ! what are you to Love ? The jealous God , when we ...
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... honoured by borrowing fome lines from his translation of Marino's Slaughter of the Innocents . See Crashaw in the Letters , vol . vii . VER . 215. Grace fhines around her ] Here follows fome of the maxims and reflections of Fenelon ...
... honoured by borrowing fome lines from his translation of Marino's Slaughter of the Innocents . See Crashaw in the Letters , vol . vii . VER . 215. Grace fhines around her ] Here follows fome of the maxims and reflections of Fenelon ...
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... honour to the good taste and liberal curiosity of the present age . It is always pleafing , and indeed useful , to look back to the rude beginnings of any art brought to a greater degree of elegance and grace . Aurea nunc , olim ...
... honour to the good taste and liberal curiosity of the present age . It is always pleafing , and indeed useful , to look back to the rude beginnings of any art brought to a greater degree of elegance and grace . Aurea nunc , olim ...
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... honoured and refpected . The Chinese religion , government , and arts , have been too much magnified by some writers , and too much leffened by others . We may expect an accurate account of this wonderful country from the candour ...
... honoured and refpected . The Chinese religion , government , and arts , have been too much magnified by some writers , and too much leffened by others . We may expect an accurate account of this wonderful country from the candour ...
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Andraemon Aonia Argos beauty beſt bleft breaſt cauſe charms Chaucer cloſe crown'd dame Dryope Dunciad eaſe Epiftle Eteocles Ev'n ev'ry eyes facred faid fair fame fate fatire fays feem fhade fhall fhining fhould fide figh filent fince firft firſt flain flame foft fome foul ftill fubject fuch fure gentle grace heart heav'n himſelf honour houſe huſband IMITATIONS juft juſt laft laſt lefs loft Lord lov'd mihi moſt Muſe muſt night NOTES numbers nymph o'er obferved Ovid paffion paſt Petrarch Phaon Phoebus pleaſe pleaſure poem poet Pope pow'r praiſe Quintilian quod rage raiſe reft reſt rife Sappho ſay ſcene ſeen ſhade ſhe ſkies ſome ſpeak ſpouſe ſpread ſtate Statius ſtill tears Thebes thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand tibi tranflated Twas Tydeus uſe verfe verſe Vertumnus Virgil virgin whofe whoſe wife youth
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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.