The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions and Improvements, Volumen1T. & G. Palmer, 1804 - 754 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 16
Página 9
... Virgil , and Spenser . Mr. Pope is of opinion that Theocritus excels all others in nature and sim- plicity . That Virgil , who copies Theocritus , refines on his original ; and in all points in which judgment has the principal part , is ...
... Virgil , and Spenser . Mr. Pope is of opinion that Theocritus excels all others in nature and sim- plicity . That Virgil , who copies Theocritus , refines on his original ; and in all points in which judgment has the principal part , is ...
Página 10
... Virgil had written nothing so good at " his age . I shall take it as a favour if you will bring " me acquainted with him ; and if he will give him- " self the trouble any morning to call at my house , I " shall be very glad to read the ...
... Virgil had written nothing so good at " his age . I shall take it as a favour if you will bring " me acquainted with him ; and if he will give him- " self the trouble any morning to call at my house , I " shall be very glad to read the ...
Página 53
... Virgil , is certainly true , as Homer is a more va- rious and diffuse poet than Virgil ; and it is likewise true , that Pope has even exceeded Dryden in the ex- ecution , and none will deny that Pope's Homer's Iliad is a finer poem than ...
... Virgil , is certainly true , as Homer is a more va- rious and diffuse poet than Virgil ; and it is likewise true , that Pope has even exceeded Dryden in the ex- ecution , and none will deny that Pope's Homer's Iliad is a finer poem than ...
Página 54
... Virgil into English , so did he perform the task under many d advantages which Pope , by a happier situation in life , was enabled to avoid ; and could not but improve upon Dryden's errors , though the authors translated were not the ...
... Virgil into English , so did he perform the task under many d advantages which Pope , by a happier situation in life , was enabled to avoid ; and could not but improve upon Dryden's errors , though the authors translated were not the ...
Página 74
... Virgil liv'd , on Virgil wait ; Whose Muse did once , like thine , in plains delight : Thine shall , like his , soon take a higher flight : So larks , which first from lowly fields arise , Mount by degrees , and reach at last the skies ...
... Virgil liv'd , on Virgil wait ; Whose Muse did once , like thine , in plains delight : Thine shall , like his , soon take a higher flight : So larks , which first from lowly fields arise , Mount by degrees , and reach at last the skies ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
Abelard Addison ALEXANDER POPE ancient ANTISTROPHE appear appear'd bard beauty behold blush breast breath bright charms courser crown'd Cynthus Daph Daphne delight Dryden Dunciad earth eclogues envy eternal Ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame fate fire fix'd flames flocks flood flow'rs forests gales genius glory goddess grace groves hear heart heav'n Homer honour Iliad kind lays Lesbian live Lord Bolingbroke lov'd lyre Mac Flecknoe mournful Muses nature numbers nymph o'er once op'ning pastoral Phaon plains poem poet poetry Pope Pope's pow'r praise pray'r resound rise rocks sacred Sappho satire scene SEMICHORUS shade shepherds shine shore sighs silver sing Sir Richard Steele skies soft song soul spring strains streams Streph sung swains sylvan tears tender thee Theocritus thine thou thought translation trees trembling tuneful verses Virgil weep winds Windsor write youth
Pasajes populares
Página 21 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer: Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike ; Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Página 21 - Dreading ev'n fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little Senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars ev'ry sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise: Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he?
Página 176 - And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast: There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow; While angels with their silver wings o'ershade The ground now sacred by thy relics made. So peaceful rests, without a stone, a name, What once had beauty, titles, wealth, and fame.
Página 21 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Página 174 - Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes, The glorious fault of angels and of gods; Thence to their images on earth it flows, And in the breasts of kings and heroes glows.
Página 122 - The swain in barren deserts with surprise Sees lilies spring, and sudden verdure rise ; And starts amidst the thirsty wilds to hear New falls of water murmuring in his ear.
Página 17 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Página 121 - Oh spring to light, auspicious Babe, be born ! See, Nature hastes her earliest wreaths to bring, With all the incense of the breathing spring...
Página 123 - The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead, And boys in flowery bands the tiger lead : The steer and lion at one crib shall meet, And harmless serpents lick the pilgrim's feet.
Página 164 - Thy life a long dead calm of fix'd repose; No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows. Still as the sea, ere winds were taught to blow, Or moving spirit bade the waters flow; Soft as the slumbers of a saint forgiv'n, And mild as op'ning gleams of promis'd heav'n.