The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volum 6J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1751 |
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Side 74
... speak . Oh let thy once - lov'd Friend inscribe thy Stone , And , with a Father's forrows , mix his own ! IV . On IV . On JAMES CRAGGS , Efq . In Westminster 74 EPITAPH 8 . On the Hon SIMON HARCOURT, only of Lord Chancellor HARCOURT; at ...
... speak . Oh let thy once - lov'd Friend inscribe thy Stone , And , with a Father's forrows , mix his own ! IV . On IV . On JAMES CRAGGS , Efq . In Westminster 74 EPITAPH 8 . On the Hon SIMON HARCOURT, only of Lord Chancellor HARCOURT; at ...
Side 113
... speak and learn nothing but the learned Languages , and especially the Greek ; in which he conftantly eat and drank , according to Homer . But what most conduced to his eafy at- tainment of this Language , was his love of Gin- ger ...
... speak and learn nothing but the learned Languages , and especially the Greek ; in which he conftantly eat and drank , according to Homer . But what most conduced to his eafy at- tainment of this Language , was his love of Gin- ger ...
Side 124
... learn from this Sample to speak " with veneration of ancient Mufick . If this " Lyre in my unfkilful hands can perform fuch wonders , what must it not have done in thofe of " a Timotheus or a Terpander ? " Having faid 66 a 124 OF MEMOIRS.
... learn from this Sample to speak " with veneration of ancient Mufick . If this " Lyre in my unfkilful hands can perform fuch wonders , what must it not have done in thofe of " a Timotheus or a Terpander ? " Having faid 66 a 124 OF MEMOIRS.
Side 156
... speak more openly . But if any man fhall ever fee fuch very extra = ordinary Voyages , into fuch very extraordinary Nations , which manifeft the moft diftinguishing marks of a Philofopher , a Politician , and a Legi- flator ; and can ...
... speak more openly . But if any man fhall ever fee fuch very extra = ordinary Voyages , into fuch very extraordinary Nations , which manifeft the moft diftinguishing marks of a Philofopher , a Politician , and a Legi- flator ; and can ...
Side 182
... Speaking of a beautiful infant , So fair thou art , that if great Cupid be . A child , as Poets fay , fure thou art be . Fair Venus would mistake thee for her own , Did not thy eyes proclaim thee not her fon . There all the lightnings ...
... Speaking of a beautiful infant , So fair thou art , that if great Cupid be . A child , as Poets fay , fure thou art be . Fair Venus would mistake thee for her own , Did not thy eyes proclaim thee not her fon . There all the lightnings ...
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Side 325 - ... to consider him attentively in comparison with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns.
Side 313 - Who can be so prejudiced in their favour as to magnify the felicity of those ages, when a spirit of revenge and cruelty, joined with the practice of rapine and robbery, reigned through the world ; when no mercy was...
Side 303 - How fertile will that imagination appear which was able to clothe all the properties of elements, the qualifications of the mind, the virtues and vices, in forms and persons, and to introduce them into actions agreeable to the nature of the things they shadowed?
Side 278 - I CANNOT think it extravagant to imagine that mankind are no less in proportion accountable for the ill use of their dominion over creatures of the lower rank of beings than for the exercise of tyranny over their own species.
Side 331 - ... something between penetration and felicity, he hits upon that particular point on which the bent of each argument turns, or the force of each motive depends.
Side 334 - ... upon the judgments of that body of men whereof he was a member. They have ever had a standard to themselves, upon other principles than those of Aristotle.
Side 310 - ... of a trumpet. They roll along as a plentiful river, always in motion, and always full ; while we are borne away by a tide of...
Side 289 - Nay, to that perfection is he arrived, that he stoops as he walks. The figure of the man is odd enough; he is a lively little creature, with long arms and legs : a spider is no ill emblem of him : he has been taken at a distance for a small windmill.
Side 300 - 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 45 - ... twixt reading and Bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary Tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon; Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire, Hum half a tune, tell stories to the squire; Up to her godly garret after sev'n, There starve and pray, for that's the way to heav'n.