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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... poets , to whom he ap- plied with great eagerness and enthusiasm . It is in our early years , that the true bent of ... poetry was fo ftrong , that he often declared he began to write verfes earlier in life than he could call to memory ...
... poets , to whom he ap- plied with great eagerness and enthusiasm . It is in our early years , that the true bent of ... poetry was fo ftrong , that he often declared he began to write verfes earlier in life than he could call to memory ...
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... poet- " I left no calling for this idle trade , " No duty broke , no father disobey'd . " By the time he was fifteen , having made a very ... poetry , however , being pre- A His 16 THE LIFE OF this could be no more than a bare recommen- ...
... poet- " I left no calling for this idle trade , " No duty broke , no father disobey'd . " By the time he was fifteen , having made a very ... poetry , however , being pre- A His 16 THE LIFE OF this could be no more than a bare recommen- ...
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... poetry , however , being pre- dominant , he was eager to explore all the trea- fures of Parnaffus ; and between this and his twentieth year , he devoted himself entirely to the reading of the most confiderable poets and critics in the ...
... poetry , however , being pre- dominant , he was eager to explore all the trea- fures of Parnaffus ; and between this and his twentieth year , he devoted himself entirely to the reading of the most confiderable poets and critics in the ...
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... poetry , and the Belles Lettres * . But ftill , as he affures us , he read without any defign but that of pleasing ... poet , as the best artifts have become painters , by copying from * He used to declare , that of the Latin poets , he ...
... poetry , and the Belles Lettres * . But ftill , as he affures us , he read without any defign but that of pleasing ... poet , as the best artifts have become painters , by copying from * He used to declare , that of the Latin poets , he ...
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... poetry , to a science . From the age of twenty to twenty - feven , he pursued this fyftem with unremitted attention ... poet more affiduous to cultivate his mental faculties 20 THE LIFE OF.
... poetry , to a science . From the age of twenty to twenty - feven , he pursued this fyftem with unremitted attention ... poet more affiduous to cultivate his mental faculties 20 THE LIFE OF.
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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.