The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Comp. from Original Manuscripts; with a Critical Essay on His Writings and GeniusC. Bathurst, 1769 - 578 ページ |
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... she could no longer detract from the faculties of his mind , malicioufly endeavoured to arraign the virtues of his heart . With what little juftice attempts have been made to depreciate either the one or the other , will be examined in ...
... she could no longer detract from the faculties of his mind , malicioufly endeavoured to arraign the virtues of his heart . With what little juftice attempts have been made to depreciate either the one or the other , will be examined in ...
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... She had three brothers , one of whom was killed , an- other died , in the fervice of King Charles I. And the eldeft , becoming a general officer in Spain , left her what estate remained after the fequeftrations and forfeitures of her ...
... She had three brothers , one of whom was killed , an- other died , in the fervice of King Charles I. And the eldeft , becoming a general officer in Spain , left her what estate remained after the fequeftrations and forfeitures of her ...
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... She raises a ftorm against him , as Juno does against Eneas : he is caft away , and swims to fhore , as Ulyffes did , to the ifland of Phæacia . * Among other propofals , which Betterton made him to write for the ftage , he ftrongly ...
... She raises a ftorm against him , as Juno does against Eneas : he is caft away , and swims to fhore , as Ulyffes did , to the ifland of Phæacia . * Among other propofals , which Betterton made him to write for the ftage , he ftrongly ...
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... she fires with animated founds ; " Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds : Melancholy lifts her head , Morpheus rouses from his bed , " Sloth unfolds her arms and wakes , " Lift'ning Envy drops her fnakes ; " Inteftine war no more ...
... she fires with animated founds ; " Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds : Melancholy lifts her head , Morpheus rouses from his bed , " Sloth unfolds her arms and wakes , " Lift'ning Envy drops her fnakes ; " Inteftine war no more ...
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... She drew from them , what they deriv'd from " Heav'n . " The gen'rous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire , " And taught the world with Reason to admire . " Then Criticism the Mufe's handmaid prov'd , " To dress her charms , and make her more ...
... She drew from them , what they deriv'd from " Heav'n . " The gen'rous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire , " And taught the world with Reason to admire . " Then Criticism the Mufe's handmaid prov'd , " To dress her charms , and make her more ...
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265 ページ - Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge Thy foe. 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...
256 ページ - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
231 ページ - 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...
80 ページ - 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.
298 ページ - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ; Enough, that Virtue fill'd the space between ; Prov'd by the ends of being, to have been.
229 ページ - But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not 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?
116 ページ - He springs to vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts...
239 ページ - 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.
231 ページ - KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed 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...
226 ページ - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.