The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson, 第 1 巻1812 |
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... kind of play from " Ogilby's Iliad , " with some verses of his own intermixed , which he persuaded his school- fellows to act , with the addition of his master's gar- dener , who personated Ajax . At the two last schools he used to ...
... kind of play from " Ogilby's Iliad , " with some verses of his own intermixed , which he persuaded his school- fellows to act , with the addition of his master's gar- dener , who personated Ajax . At the two last schools he used to ...
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... kind arose , as Mr. Savage told me , from his perusal of Prior's Nut - brown Maid . How much he has surpassed Prior's work it is not necessary to mention , when perhaps it may be said with justice , that he has excelled every ...
... kind arose , as Mr. Savage told me , from his perusal of Prior's Nut - brown Maid . How much he has surpassed Prior's work it is not necessary to mention , when perhaps it may be said with justice , that he has excelled every ...
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... kind- ness and esteem ; and after his death published , under his name , a version into modern English of Chau- cer's Prologues , and one of his Tales , which , as was related by Mr. Harte , were believed to have been the performance of ...
... kind- ness and esteem ; and after his death published , under his name , a version into modern English of Chau- cer's Prologues , and one of his Tales , which , as was related by Mr. Harte , were believed to have been the performance of ...
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... kind , I beg your pardon , Mr. Pope ; but " there is something in that passage that does not " quite please me . Be so good as to mark the place , " and consider it a little at your leisure . — I am sure you can give it a little turn ...
... kind , I beg your pardon , Mr. Pope ; but " there is something in that passage that does not " quite please me . Be so good as to mark the place , " and consider it a little at your leisure . — I am sure you can give it a little turn ...
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... kind observations on those passages , and then " read them to him as altered . I have known him " much longer than you have , and will be answerable " for the event . ' I followed his advice ; waited on " Lord Halifax some time after ...
... kind observations on those passages , and then " read them to him as altered . I have known him " much longer than you have , and will be answerable " for the event . ' I followed his advice ; waited on " Lord Halifax some time after ...
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Addison afterwards ALEXANDER POPE ancient appear bard beauties Blest Bolingbroke bright censure character courser critics crown'd Cynthus DAPHNIS delight Dryden Dunciad Eclogues Epistle epitaph Essay Essay on Criticism Eurydice ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame fire flame flocks flow'rs forest friendship genius glory grace groves heart heav'n Homer honour Iliad imitation immortal Isaiah labour lays learning letters living Lord Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke LORD LANSDOWN lyre mankind mind muse muse's nature never numbers nymph o'er once passion pastoral plain poem poet poetry Pope Pope's pow'r praise pride publick published racter rage resound rise sacred SATIRE SATIRE'S scene seems SEMICHORUS sense shade shepherds shew shine sing skies smile soft spring strains streams STREPHON swains Swift sylvan thee Theocritus thou thought tion translation trees trembling truth verse Virg Virgil virtue virtue's Warburton write written
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130 ページ - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
xlv ページ - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head. Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies...
145 ページ - While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind : But more...
li ページ - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. "For," says he, "the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
cxii ページ - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope.
137 ページ - Ten Censure wrong for one who Writes amiss ; A Fool might once himself alone expose, Now One in Verse makes many more in Prose.
lxxxii ページ - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
145 ページ - A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
130 ページ - Happy the man. whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound. Content to breathe his native air. In his own ground Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire. Whose trees in summer yield him shade. In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years slide soft away, In health of body, peace of mind. Quiet by day. Sound sleep by night; study and ease. Together mixt: sweet recreation, And innocence, which most does please With meditation.
cxx ページ - Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.