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 ページ |
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... fame , are a few fwans , who , when they catch a medal , convey it carefully to the Temple of IMMOR- TALITY , where it is confecrated . These swans , of later ages , have indeed been rarae aves : What innumerable names have been dropped ...
... fame , are a few fwans , who , when they catch a medal , convey it carefully to the Temple of IMMOR- TALITY , where it is confecrated . These swans , of later ages , have indeed been rarae aves : What innumerable names have been dropped ...
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... fame exquifite fenfibility , and 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 ...
... fame exquifite fenfibility , and 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 ...
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... fame , they stand in the most confpicuous line , who have reaped the harvest of glory , in the active scenes of life . The bulk of mankind , are more folicitous to learn the hiftory of statesmen and warriors , than to be acquainted with ...
... fame , they stand in the most confpicuous line , who have reaped the harvest of glory , in the active scenes of life . The bulk of mankind , are more folicitous to learn the hiftory of statesmen and warriors , than to be acquainted with ...
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... fame . But when we perufe the lives of the learned , when we admire the fentiments which adorn their pages , when we approve the moral and focial rules , by which they framed their con- duct ; we then pay the just tribute of applause ...
... fame . But when we perufe the lives of the learned , when we admire the fentiments which adorn their pages , when we approve the moral and focial rules , by which they framed their con- duct ; we then pay the just tribute of applause ...
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... fame is thus firmly rooted , Mr. POPE ftands capitally diftinguished . Our bard , however , experienced the common fate of every man who ftarts from the crowd . Ignorance and envy waged war against his merit . So true is Moliere's ...
... fame is thus firmly rooted , Mr. POPE ftands capitally diftinguished . Our bard , however , experienced the common fate of every man who ftarts from the crowd . Ignorance and envy waged war against his merit . So true is Moliere's ...
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265 ページ - 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...
231 ページ - 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!
123 ページ - 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!
231 ページ - 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...
192 ページ - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
124 ページ - 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...
163 ページ - 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
381 ページ - 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.
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.
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.