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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... ftrong and fteady fplendor , which fhines to lateft pofterity . * The difplay of genius feems to depend on the power of attention , which is greater or lefs according to the ftrength of the paffion which excites it : and this again in a ...
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... ftrong glow of spirits , which warms the genius , fires the liber- tine ; and opens to every mode of diffipation . The blandishments of beauty , the joys of fef- tivity , the attractions of pleasure , under all its alluring forms ...
... ftrong glow of spirits , which warms the genius , fires the liber- tine ; and opens to every mode of diffipation . The blandishments of beauty , the joys of fef- tivity , the attractions of pleasure , under all its alluring forms ...
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... ftrong , that he often declared he began to write verfes earlier in life than he could call to memory ; and he says , in his Epiftle to Dr. Arbuthnot : " I lifp'd in numbers , for the numbers came . When he was yet a child , his father ...
... ftrong , that he often declared he began to write verfes earlier in life than he could call to memory ; and he says , in his Epiftle to Dr. Arbuthnot : " I lifp'd in numbers , for the numbers came . When he was yet a child , his father ...
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... ftrong defire of removing to London , in order to learn French and Italian . His family , whofe folicitude chiefly regarded the improvement and preservation of his health , and who knew that his miferable infirm state of body , would ...
... ftrong defire of removing to London , in order to learn French and Italian . His family , whofe folicitude chiefly regarded the improvement and preservation of his health , and who knew that his miferable infirm state of body , would ...
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... ftrong creative powers , without tafte to jelect fuch images as are truly beautiful , from the group which throng before him . This de- fect is fometimes , perhaps ofteneft , obfervable in writers of the greatest genius ; and feems to ...
... ftrong creative powers , without tafte to jelect fuch images as are truly beautiful , from the group which throng before him . This de- fect is fometimes , perhaps ofteneft , obfervable in writers of the greatest genius ; and feems to ...
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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.