The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volumen2B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly [and others], 1797 - 3650 páginas |
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... late my griefs increas'd , And all a mother's cares diftract my breast . Alas , what more could fate itself impose , But thee , the last and greatest of my woes ? 80 No more my robes in waving purple flow , Nor on my hand the sparkling ...
... late my griefs increas'd , And all a mother's cares diftract my breast . Alas , what more could fate itself impose , But thee , the last and greatest of my woes ? 80 No more my robes in waving purple flow , Nor on my hand the sparkling ...
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... late poet , fpeaking of a Her- mit at his evening prayers , fays beautifully : Then , as my taper waxes dim , Chant ere I fleep my measur'd hymn ; And , at the close , the gleams behold , Of parting wings bedropt with gold . VER . 219 ...
... late poet , fpeaking of a Her- mit at his evening prayers , fays beautifully : Then , as my taper waxes dim , Chant ere I fleep my measur'd hymn ; And , at the close , the gleams behold , Of parting wings bedropt with gold . VER . 219 ...
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... late abbefs of Paraclete , requested an infcription from the Parifian Academy of Belles Letters in the year 1766 for the tomb of these celebrated lovers , which has been fince put up by Madam de Roucy , her fucceffor : Hic Sub eodem ...
... late abbefs of Paraclete , requested an infcription from the Parifian Academy of Belles Letters in the year 1766 for the tomb of these celebrated lovers , which has been fince put up by Madam de Roucy , her fucceffor : Hic Sub eodem ...
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... late ) was in all times fo far from being rejected by the best poets , that fome of them have rather erred by infifting on it too closely , and carrying it too far ; and that to infer from thence that the allegory itself is vicious , is ...
... late ) was in all times fo far from being rejected by the best poets , that fome of them have rather erred by infifting on it too closely , and carrying it too far ; and that to infer from thence that the allegory itself is vicious , is ...
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... Teseide , published at Paris , M. D. CC . 1597 , in 12mo . The late Mr. Hans Stanley , who was as accurately skilled in modern as in ancient Greek , for 5 A train of phantoms in wild order rofe , 58 THE TEMPLE OF FAME .
... Teseide , published at Paris , M. D. CC . 1597 , in 12mo . The late Mr. Hans Stanley , who was as accurately skilled in modern as in ancient Greek , for 5 A train of phantoms in wild order rofe , 58 THE TEMPLE OF FAME .
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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.