The Age of Pope (1700-1744).G. Bell and sons, 1899 - 260 sider |
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... sense . The Revolution of 1688 produced a change in English politics scarcely more remarkable than the change that took place a little later in English literature and is to be seen in the poets and wits who are known familiarly as the ...
... sense . The Revolution of 1688 produced a change in English politics scarcely more remarkable than the change that took place a little later in English literature and is to be seen in the poets and wits who are known familiarly as the ...
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... to have been regarded as little more than a useful kind of cement which held society together . The good sense 1 Lecky's England , vol . i . p . 373 . advocated so constantly by Pope in poetry was also con- 8 THE AGE OF POPE .
... to have been regarded as little more than a useful kind of cement which held society together . The good sense 1 Lecky's England , vol . i . p . 373 . advocated so constantly by Pope in poetry was also con- 8 THE AGE OF POPE .
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... sense , was a danger to which every gentleman was liable who wore a sword . Bullies were ready to provoke a quarrel , the slightest cause of offence was magnified into an affair of honour , and the lives of several of the most ...
... sense , was a danger to which every gentleman was liable who wore a sword . Bullies were ready to provoke a quarrel , the slightest cause of offence was magnified into an affair of honour , and the lives of several of the most ...
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... sense , ' he says , ' only trifles with them , plays with them , humours and flatters them as he does with a sprightly , forward child ; but he neither con- sults them about , nor trusts them with , serious matters , though he often ...
... sense , ' he says , ' only trifles with them , plays with them , humours and flatters them as he does with a sprightly , forward child ; but he neither con- sults them about , nor trusts them with , serious matters , though he often ...
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... sense that the essence of this divine art cannot be transmitted , but the form of the art may be , and Pope's style of work- manship made it readily imitable by accomplished crafts- men . Although he affected to call poetry an idle ...
... sense that the essence of this divine art cannot be transmitted , but the form of the art may be , and Pope's style of work- manship made it readily imitable by accomplished crafts- men . Although he affected to call poetry an idle ...
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Side 99 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Side 92 - I hear a voice, you cannot hear, Which says, I must not stay; I see a hand, you cannot see, Which beckons me away.
Side 26 - Ixion fixed, the wretch shall feel The giddy motion of the whirling mill, In fumes of burning chocolate shall glow, And tremble at the sea that froths below!
Side 128 - She was a very beautiful woman, of a noble spirit, and there was a dignity in her grief amidst all the wildness of her transport; which, methought, struck me with an instinct of sorrow, that, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since.
Side 196 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Side 66 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man...
Side 73 - As home he goes beneath the joyous moon. Ye that keep watch in heaven, as earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, Ye constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre. Great source of day! best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam His praise.
Side 26 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride...
Side 224 - Comes slowly grazing through the adjoining meads, Whose stealing pace and lengthened shade we fear, Till torn-up forage in his teeth we hear; When nibbling sheep at large pursue their food, And unmolested kine rechew the cud; When curlews cry beneath the village walls, And to her straggling brood the partridge calls...
Side 98 - Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which he did with such judgment and such fancy, as made his little domain the envy of the great, and the admiration of the .skilful ; a place to be visited by travellers, and copied by designers.