The Age of Pope (1700-1744)G. Bell and Sons, 1906 - 260 páginas |
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... the general estimate in his Essays of the women with whom he was acquainted be to any extent a correct one , the derogatory language used by men of letters , and especially by Swift , Prior , Pope , and Chesterfield 16 THE AGE OF POPE .
... the general estimate in his Essays of the women with whom he was acquainted be to any extent a correct one , the derogatory language used by men of letters , and especially by Swift , Prior , Pope , and Chesterfield 16 THE AGE OF POPE .
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... Essay on Translated Verse , and Sheffield an Essay on Poetry . The Essay on Criticism is a marvellous production for a young man who had scarcely passed his maturity when it was published . To have written lines and couplets that live ...
... Essay on Translated Verse , and Sheffield an Essay on Poetry . The Essay on Criticism is a marvellous production for a young man who had scarcely passed his maturity when it was published . To have written lines and couplets that live ...
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... Essay on Man , and as they were written to everybody they do not look as if they had been written to anybody . ' Pope said once , what he did not mean , that he could not write agreeable letters . This was true ; his letters are , as ...
... Essay on Man , and as they were written to everybody they do not look as if they had been written to anybody . ' Pope said once , what he did not mean , that he could not write agreeable letters . This was true ; his letters are , as ...
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... Essay on Bathos in which several writers of the day were sneered at . The assault provoked the counter - attack for which Pope was looking , and he then pro- duced the satire which was already prepared for the press . In its publication ...
... Essay on Bathos in which several writers of the day were sneered at . The assault provoked the counter - attack for which Pope was looking , and he then pro- duced the satire which was already prepared for the press . In its publication ...
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... Essay on Man , a pro- fessedly philosophical poem by an author who knew little of philosophy , was published in four epistles , in 1733-4 . Bolingbroke's brilliant , versatile , and shallow intellect had strongly impressed Swift , and ...
... Essay on Man , a pro- fessedly philosophical poem by an author who knew little of philosophy , was published in four epistles , in 1733-4 . Bolingbroke's brilliant , versatile , and shallow intellect had strongly impressed Swift , and ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 91 - Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Página 110 - I hear a voice, you cannot hear, Which says, I must not stay ; I see a hand, you cannot see, Which beckons me away.
Página 82 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man...
Página 82 - Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity! A beam ethereal, sullied and absorpt! Though sullied and dishonoured, still divine! Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory ! a frail child of dust: Helpless immortal! insect infinite! A worm! a god! I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost.
Página 117 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome — at an inn.
Página 89 - As home he goes beneath the joyous moon. Ye that keep watch in heaven, as earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, Ye constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre. Great source of day! best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam His praise.
Página 148 - She was a very beautiful woman, of a noble spirit, and there was a dignity in her grief amidst all the wildness of her transport which, methought, struck me with an instinct of sorrow, that, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since.
Página 32 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride...
Página 34 - What though no friends in sable weeds appear, Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year, And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances, and the public show?
Página 51 - See Mystery to Mathematics fly! In vain, they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.