The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Compiled from Original Manuscripts; with a Critical Essay on His Writings and GeniusC. Bathurst, H. Woodfall, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, W. Johnston, B. White, T. Caslon, T. Longman, B. Law, Johnson and Payne, S. Bladon, T. Cadell, and the executors of A. Millar., 1769 - 578 من الصفحات |
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... beft only break forth by fudden and un- equal starts . Praise and renown , are the rich rewards it covets . Praife , as POPE obferves , is to a young wit , like rain to a tender flower . If it is not occafionally revived by refreshing ...
... beft only break forth by fudden and un- equal starts . Praise and renown , are the rich rewards it covets . Praife , as POPE obferves , is to a young wit , like rain to a tender flower . If it is not occafionally revived by refreshing ...
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... beft title from whence we can derive the heart- felt pleasures of felf - commendation . To be proud of the gifts of nature , is a prepofterous vanity . Our improvements only , are what we can properly call our own , and which afford the ...
... beft title from whence we can derive the heart- felt pleasures of felf - commendation . To be proud of the gifts of nature , is a prepofterous vanity . Our improvements only , are what we can properly call our own , and which afford the ...
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... beft fuits his purpose : he may make the fpicy gales of Arabia , dif- fufe their fragrance over fcentless and fterile wilds he may bring the garden of the Hefpe- rides from its native Africa , and make the gol- den fruit ripen in the ...
... beft fuits his purpose : he may make the fpicy gales of Arabia , dif- fufe their fragrance over fcentless and fterile wilds he may bring the garden of the Hefpe- rides from its native Africa , and make the gol- den fruit ripen in the ...
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... beft critics of his age . He was fo delighted with them , that , in his letter to Mr. Wycherley , he fays --- " The author feems to have a particular genius for this kind of poetry , and a judgment that far ex- ceeds his years . He has ...
... beft critics of his age . He was fo delighted with them , that , in his letter to Mr. Wycherley , he fays --- " The author feems to have a particular genius for this kind of poetry , and a judgment that far ex- ceeds his years . He has ...
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... beft calculated to exemplify swift- nefs ; because it would then moft naturally ex- hibit the act of paffing through a long space in a fhort time . It may , on this occafion , be worth remarking too , that though unbending be indeed ...
... beft calculated to exemplify swift- nefs ; because it would then moft naturally ex- hibit the act of paffing through a long space in a fhort time . It may , on this occafion , be worth remarking too , that though unbending be indeed ...
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الصفحة 265 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
الصفحة 231 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!
الصفحة 123 - In some lone isle, or distant northern land; Where the gilt chariot never marks the way, Where none learn ombre, none e'er taste bohea!
الصفحة 231 - The proper study of mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err...
الصفحة 192 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
الصفحة 124 - Who would not scorn what Housewife's Cares produce, Or who would learn one earthly Thing of Use ? To patch, nay ogle, might become a Saint, Nor could it sure be such a Sin to paint. But since, alas ! frail Beauty must decay...
الصفحة 163 - Come, Abelard ! for what hast thou to dread ? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature stands check'd ; Religion disapproves ; Ev'n thou art cold — yet Eloisa loves. 260 Ah hopeless, lasting flames ! like those that burn To light the dead, and warm th
الصفحة 381 - But chief her shrine where naked Venus keeps, And Cupids ride the Lion of the Deeps; Where, eas'd of Fleets, the Adriatic main Wafts the smooth Eunuch and enamour'd swain.
الصفحة 80 - She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For, as in bodies, thus in souls we find, What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
الصفحة 239 - Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod; The state of Nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man.