Observations on Popeauthor, 1796 - 348 páginas |
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... She runs , but hopes she does not run unseen ; While a kind glance at her purfuer flies . He probably consulted Creech's translation of the original paffage in Virgil : Sly Galatea drives me o'er the green , And apples throws , then ...
... She runs , but hopes she does not run unseen ; While a kind glance at her purfuer flies . He probably consulted Creech's translation of the original paffage in Virgil : Sly Galatea drives me o'er the green , And apples throws , then ...
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... She makes the fummer's day more bright , And , when she goes away , ' tis night . Waller , in his battle of the Summer Islands , Canto i , For the kind Spring , which but falutes us here , Inhabits there , and courts them all the year ...
... She makes the fummer's day more bright , And , when she goes away , ' tis night . Waller , in his battle of the Summer Islands , Canto i , For the kind Spring , which but falutes us here , Inhabits there , and courts them all the year ...
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... the Mufe , tho ' low her numbers be ; She fings of friendship , and the fings to thee . The word rapture as fignificative of infpired phrenzy , or or poetical enthusiasm , is incomparably more appropriate than Spirit ON POPE .
... the Mufe , tho ' low her numbers be ; She fings of friendship , and the fings to thee . The word rapture as fignificative of infpired phrenzy , or or poetical enthusiasm , is incomparably more appropriate than Spirit ON POPE .
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... the Mufe , tho ' low her numbers be ; She fings of friendship , and the fings to thee . The word rapture as fignificative of infpired phrenzy , or or poetical enthusiasm , is incomparably more appropriate than Spirit ON POPE . 9.
... the Mufe , tho ' low her numbers be ; She fings of friendship , and the fings to thee . The word rapture as fignificative of infpired phrenzy , or or poetical enthusiasm , is incomparably more appropriate than Spirit ON POPE . 9.
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... by himself in his Temple of Fame , ver . 372 . She faid in air the trembling mufic floats , : And on the winds triumphant fwell the notes . Ver . 19 . Ver . 19. The ftrains decay , And melt away ODE ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY. ...
... by himself in his Temple of Fame , ver . 372 . She faid in air the trembling mufic floats , : And on the winds triumphant fwell the notes . Ver . 19 . Ver . 19. The ftrains decay , And melt away ODE ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY. ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Æneid æther againſt alfo allufion alſo Aureng-Zebe beauty becauſe beſt Biſhop Canto Comus couplet Cowley death defcription Dryden Dryden's verfion Dunciad Eclogue edition Effay elegant Elegy Epiftle ev'ry expreffion eyes facred faid fame fatire fays fecond feems fentiment fhade fhall fhine fhould filver fimilar fing firft firſt fkies folar fome foul fpirit ftill ftrain fublime fuch heav'n himſelf Hippolytus Horace Hudibras Iliad illuftration imitation itſelf juft juſt laft laſt lefs Loft Lucretius Mifcellanies Milton moft moſt Mufe muſt numbers o'er obferves occafion Ogilby Ovid paffage phraſe pleafing pleaſe poem poet poet's poetical poetry Pope praiſe prefent prefume purpoſe quæ reader reaſon refpect reſembles rife riſe Satire ſee ſeems ſhall ſkies ſmall ſome ſpread Steevens ſtill ſtream ſubject thee thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro tranflation verfe verſe Virg Virgil Warburton whofe whoſe winds wings
Pasajes populares
Página 215 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name...
Página 265 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Página 226 - Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
Página 279 - This pencil take (she said) whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy ; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Página 195 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heaven pursue.
Página 51 - Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome, (The world's just wonder, and ev'n thine, O Rome!) No single parts unequally surprise, All comes united to th' admiring eyes; No monstrous height, or breadth or length appear; The whole at once is bold and regular.
Página 161 - Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at ev'ry pore? Or quick effluvia darting thro' the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain?
Página 14 - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Página 286 - Near these a Nursery erects its head. Where queens are form'd, and future heroes bred ; Where unfledg'd actors learn to laugh and cry, Where infant punks their tender voices try, And little Maximins the gods defy.
Página 320 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...