The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volumen2B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly [and others], 1797 - 3650 páginas |
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... Poet's pains ! Shall fortune ftill in one fad tenor run , And ftill increase the woes fo foon begun ? Inur'd to forrow from my tender years , My parent's ashes drank my early tears ; 65 70 My brother next , neglecting wealth and fame ...
... Poet's pains ! Shall fortune ftill in one fad tenor run , And ftill increase the woes fo foon begun ? Inur'd to forrow from my tender years , My parent's ashes drank my early tears ; 65 70 My brother next , neglecting wealth and fame ...
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... Poet's flame expires ; But ah ! how fiercely burn the Lover's fires ? Gods ! can no pray'rs , no fighs , no numbers move One favage heart , or teach it how to love ? The winds my pray'rs , my fighs , my numbers bear , The flying winds ...
... Poet's flame expires ; But ah ! how fiercely burn the Lover's fires ? Gods ! can no pray'rs , no fighs , no numbers move One favage heart , or teach it how to love ? The winds my pray'rs , my fighs , my numbers bear , The flying winds ...
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... poet Dryden him- felf tranflated but fix . We can now boast of happy trans lations in verfe of almost all the great poets of antiquity , whilst the French have been poorly contented with only profe translations of Homer and Horace ...
... poet Dryden him- felf tranflated but fix . We can now boast of happy trans lations in verfe of almost all the great poets of antiquity , whilst the French have been poorly contented with only profe translations of Homer and Horace ...
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... poet . The capital and unrivalled beauties of the poem arise from the striking images and descriptions of the Convent , and from the fentiments drawn from the myftical books of devotion , particularly Madame Guion and the Archbishop of ...
... poet . The capital and unrivalled beauties of the poem arise from the striking images and descriptions of the Convent , and from the fentiments drawn from the myftical books of devotion , particularly Madame Guion and the Archbishop of ...
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... poet has copied and tranflated in many other paffages : Per ipfum Chriftum obfecramus , quatenus ancillulas ipfius & tuas , crebris literis de his , in quibus adhuc fluctuas , naufragiis certificare digneris , ut nos faltem quæ tibi ...
... poet has copied and tranflated in many other paffages : Per ipfum Chriftum obfecramus , quatenus ancillulas ipfius & tuas , crebris literis de his , in quibus adhuc fluctuas , naufragiis certificare digneris , ut nos faltem quæ tibi ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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
Pasajes populares
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.