Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volum 2The author, 1745 |
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... World ; I am there concern'd in Reputation to enter upon my De- fence . There are three Paffages , you'll obferve , in his Art of Sinking in Poetry , which he endeavours B + his of ALEXANDER POPE , Efq ; 7 Writers living, and dead, he ...
... World ; I am there concern'd in Reputation to enter upon my De- fence . There are three Paffages , you'll obferve , in his Art of Sinking in Poetry , which he endeavours B + his of ALEXANDER POPE , Efq ; 7 Writers living, and dead, he ...
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... World except himself . I like the Pleasantry of the Gentleman's Banter , but have no great Doubt of getting clear from the Severity of it . The Lines in the Play stand thus ; Is there a Treachery like this in Baseness , Recorded any ...
... World except himself . I like the Pleasantry of the Gentleman's Banter , but have no great Doubt of getting clear from the Severity of it . The Lines in the Play stand thus ; Is there a Treachery like this in Baseness , Recorded any ...
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... World . " In this Office of collecting my Pieces , I am " altogether uncertain , whether to look upon my- " felf as a Man building a Monument , or burying " the Dead ? If Time fhall make it the former , may thefe " Poems " Poems ( as ...
... World . " In this Office of collecting my Pieces , I am " altogether uncertain , whether to look upon my- " felf as a Man building a Monument , or burying " the Dead ? If Time fhall make it the former , may thefe " Poems " Poems ( as ...
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... World in the right , and quietly fubmit " to every Truth which Time fhall difcover to the " Prejudice of these Writings ; not so much as " wishing so irrational a Thing , as that every Body " fhould be deceiv'd , meerly for my Credit ...
... World in the right , and quietly fubmit " to every Truth which Time fhall difcover to the " Prejudice of these Writings ; not so much as " wishing so irrational a Thing , as that every Body " fhould be deceiv'd , meerly for my Credit ...
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... World , our moral Purpose . Behold ! if Fortune , or a Mistress frowns , Some plunge in Bus'nefs , others fhave their Crowns : To cafe the Soul of one oppreffive Weight , This quits an Empire , that embroils a State : The fame aduft ...
... World , our moral Purpose . Behold ! if Fortune , or a Mistress frowns , Some plunge in Bus'nefs , others fhave their Crowns : To cafe the Soul of one oppreffive Weight , This quits an Empire , that embroils a State : The fame aduft ...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope, Esq ..., Volum 2 William Ayre,Edmund Curll Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1745 |
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope Alexander Pope Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2014 |
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope Alexander Pope Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2014 |
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Side 315 - All discord, harmony not understood ; All partial evil, universal good : And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, WHATEVER is, is RIGHT.
Side 323 - 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!
Side 32 - Of Lords, and Earls, and Dukes, and garter'd Knights; While the spread Fan o'ershades your closing eyes; Then give one flirt, and all the vision flies. Thus vanish sceptres, coronets...
Side 28 - Tis from high life high characters are drawn ; A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn : A judge is just, a chancellor juster still ; A gownman learn'd ; a bishop what you will ; Wise if a minister ; but if a king, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more every thing.
Side 315 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Side 367 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Side 316 - Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher, Death; and God adore. What future bliss, He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Side 323 - 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...
Side 235 - As Fancy opens the quick springs of Sense, We ply the Memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit, and double chain on chain; Confine the thought, to exercise the breath; And keep them in the pale of Words till death.
Side 326 - Two principles in human nature reign; Self-love, to urge, and reason, to restrain; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call, Each works its end, to move or govern all: And to their proper operation still Ascribe all good; to their improper, ill.