The Works of Alexander Pope: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... thee ? Thee , dreft in Fancy's airy beam , Abfent I follow thro ' th ' extended Dream ; Now , now I feize , I clafp thy charms , And now you burft ( ah cruel ! ) from my arms ; And fwiftly fhoot along the Mall , Or foftly glide by the ...
... thee ? Thee , dreft in Fancy's airy beam , Abfent I follow thro ' th ' extended Dream ; Now , now I feize , I clafp thy charms , And now you burft ( ah cruel ! ) from my arms ; And fwiftly fhoot along the Mall , Or foftly glide by the ...
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... our Author , after the faid Earl's Imprisonment in the Tower , and Retreat into the Country , in the Year 1721. P. Or deeming meaneft what we greatest call , Beholds thee D2 Or ( 35 ) To ROBERT Earl of Oxford and Mortimer.
... our Author , after the faid Earl's Imprisonment in the Tower , and Retreat into the Country , in the Year 1721. P. Or deeming meaneft what we greatest call , Beholds thee D2 Or ( 35 ) To ROBERT Earl of Oxford and Mortimer.
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... thee to thy filent fhade : ' Tis hers , the brave man's latest steps to trace , Rejudge his acts , and dignify disgrace . When Int'reft calls off all her fneaking train , And all th ' oblig'd defert , and all the vain ; 1 She waits , or ...
... thee to thy filent fhade : ' Tis hers , the brave man's latest steps to trace , Rejudge his acts , and dignify disgrace . When Int'reft calls off all her fneaking train , And all th ' oblig'd defert , and all the vain ; 1 She waits , or ...
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... thee more . Then fcorn to gain à Friend by fervile ways , Nor wifh to lofe a Foe these Virtues raise ; But candid , free , fincere , as you began , Proceed - a Minister , but still a Man . Be not ( exalted to whate'er degree ) Afham'd ...
... thee more . Then fcorn to gain à Friend by fervile ways , Nor wifh to lofe a Foe these Virtues raise ; But candid , free , fincere , as you began , Proceed - a Minister , but still a Man . Be not ( exalted to whate'er degree ) Afham'd ...
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... thee , on Raphael's Monument I mourn , Or wait inspiring Dreams at Maro's Urn : With thee repofe , where Tully once was laid , Or feek fome Ruin's formidable shade : While fancy brings the vanish'd piles to view , And builds imaginary ...
... thee , on Raphael's Monument I mourn , Or wait inspiring Dreams at Maro's Urn : With thee repofe , where Tully once was laid , Or feek fome Ruin's formidable shade : While fancy brings the vanish'd piles to view , And builds imaginary ...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and prose Alexander Pope Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1757 |
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Side 290 - Homer makes us hearers, and Virgil leaves us readers. If in the next place we take a view of the sentiments, the same presiding faculty is eminent in the sublimity and spirit of his thoughts. Longinus has given his opinion, that it was in this part Homer principally excelled.
Side 81 - Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
Side 196 - Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy!
Side 280 - I know an eminent cook, who beautified his country seat with a coronation dinner in greens ; where you see the champion flourishing on horseback at one end of the table, and the queen in perpetual youth at the other.
Side 309 - ... to consider him attentively in comparison with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns.
Side 284 - If some things are too luxuriant it is owing to the richness of the soil; and if others are not arrived to perfection or maturity, it is only because they are overrun and oppressed by those of a stronger nature.
Side 327 - Prose from verse they did not know, and they accordingly printed one for the other throughout the volume.
Side 288 - Every one has something so singularly his own, that no painter could have distinguished them more by their features, than the poet has by their manners.
Side 289 - Idomeneus a plain, direct soldier ; in Sarpedon, a gallant and generous one. Nor is this judicious and...
Side 331 - I will conclude by saying of Shakespear, that with all his faults, and with all the irregularity of his drama, one may look upon his works, in comparison of those that are more...