The Works of Alexander Pope: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and prose |
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againſt Alluding ancient Author Book cauſe character charms comes common Country Court Critics Dennis divine Dryden dull Dulneſs Dunciad Edition ev'ry eyes fair fame fire firſt fome Fools Friend gave Genius gentle give Goddeſs grace hand hath head heart himſelf Homer honour Houſe human imagined IMITATIONS Journal juſt kind King laſt late learned Letter light living Lord manner matter mind Moral moſt Muſe muſt Nature never o'er once perſon poem Poet Pope Pride printed reaſon relate REMARKS Richard Blackmore ſaid ſame ſay SCRIBL ſee ſeems ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome Soul ſtill ſuch tell thee theſe thing thoſe thou thought thro Town true turn uſe verſe Virtue whole whoſe write Youth
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7 ページ - The moon-struck prophet felt the madding hour : Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out order, and extinguish light, Of dull and venal a new world to mould, And bring Saturnian days of lead and gold.
215 ページ - Go, then, where only bliss sincere is known! Go, where to love and to enjoy are one ! Yet take these tears, Mortality's relief, And, till we share your joys, forgive our grief: These little rites, a stone, a verse receive, Tis all a father, all a friend can give...
75 ページ - Night primaeval and of Chaos old ! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus
184 ページ - To muse, and spill her solitary Tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon ; Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire, Hum half a tune, tell stories to the squire ; Up to her godly garret after sev'n, There starve and pray, for that's the way to heav'n.
179 ページ - And breathe an air divine on ev'ry face; Yet should the Muses bid my numbers roll Strong as their charms, and gentle as their soul; With Zeuxis...
155 ページ - How think you of our friend the Dean ? I wonder what some people mean ; My lord and he are grown so great, Always together tc te a tete. What ! they admire him for his jokes — See but the fortune of some folks...
84 ページ - ... all the great characters of the age; and this with impunity, their own persons and names being utterly secret and obscure.
199 ページ - Cyprian goddess weeping Mourn'd Adonis, darling youth : Him the boar, in silence creeping, Gor'd with unrelenting tooth. IV. Cynthia, tune harmonious numbers ; Fair Discretion, string the lyre ; Sooth my ever-waking slumbers : Bright Apollo, lend thy choir, V. Gloomy Pluto, king of terrors, Arm'd in adamantine chains, Lead me to the crystal mirrors, "Watering soft Elysian plains.
216 ページ - Poets lays, Due to his merit, and brave thirst of praise Living, great Nature fear'd he might outvie Her works ; and dying, fears herself may die.
178 ページ - Bid her be all that cheers or softens life, The tender sister, daughter, friend, and wife; Bid her be all that makes mankind adore, Then view this marble, and be vain no more!