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... MORAL ESSAYS 185 Part of the Ninth Ode of the fourth Book 445 Essay on Man 191 Epistles Epistle I. . 193 To Robert Earl of Oxford . 447 • Epistle II . 200 Epistle III . 208 Epistle IV . 216 The Universal Prayer 226 Moral Essays in Four ...
... MORAL ESSAYS 185 Part of the Ninth Ode of the fourth Book 445 Essay on Man 191 Epistles Epistle I. . 193 To Robert Earl of Oxford . 447 • Epistle II . 200 Epistle III . 208 Epistle IV . 216 The Universal Prayer 226 Moral Essays in Four ...
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... moral influence of the clergy had fallen from its original height . The Universities throughout the first half of the century swarmed with the worst class of political malcontents ; those who acquiesce and remain disloyal ; for few ...
... moral influence of the clergy had fallen from its original height . The Universities throughout the first half of the century swarmed with the worst class of political malcontents ; those who acquiesce and remain disloyal ; for few ...
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... moral uprightness which in the main he endeavoured faithfully to follow ; and for the noble lesson of adherence to a persecuted creed . After his father's death Pope might have abandoned the profes- sion of the Catholic faith ; and ...
... moral uprightness which in the main he endeavoured faithfully to follow ; and for the noble lesson of adherence to a persecuted creed . After his father's death Pope might have abandoned the profes- sion of the Catholic faith ; and ...
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... Moral Essays was equalled and their pungency sustained . In all these pro- ductions he was once more able to range his friends and foes opposite to one another like the children of light and the children of darkness ; but his attacks ...
... Moral Essays was equalled and their pungency sustained . In all these pro- ductions he was once more able to range his friends and foes opposite to one another like the children of light and the children of darkness ; but his attacks ...
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... moral justice , took in this his last important production . The adaptation , which followed , of the entire Dun- ciad to a new hero was , as will be observed elsewhere , an unfortunate attempt to gratify personal spleen at the expense ...
... moral justice , took in this his last important production . The adaptation , which followed , of the entire Dun- ciad to a new hero was , as will be observed elsewhere , an unfortunate attempt to gratify personal spleen at the expense ...
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Addison Æneid Alluding ancient beauty blest Boileau Bolingbroke Book Carruthers character charms Cibber Colley Cibber Court Critics cry'd Dæmons death died divine Dr Johnson Dryden Dulness Dunciad e'er edition Epistle Essay on Criticism ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame famous fate flames flow'rs fool genius grace happy heart heav'n hero Homer honour Horace Iliad imitation King Lady learned letters literary live Lord Lord Hervey mind Moral Essays Muse Nature never night numbers nymph o'er once Ovid Passion Pastorals pleas'd poem poet Poet's poetry Pope Pope's pow'r praise pride published Queen rage reign rise sacred Sappho Satire sense shade shine sing skies soul Swift Sylphs taste thee things thou thought thro translated trembling Twas Twickenham verse Virg Virgil Virtue Warburton Warton Whig wife write youth
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Página 44 - Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, " Sister spirit, come away ! " What is this absorbs me quite ? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my...
Página 196 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; 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.
Página 273 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Página 90 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Página 202 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen: Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Página 75 - Form a strong line about the silver bound, And guard the wide circumference around. 'Whatever spirit, careless of his charge, His post neglects, or leaves the fair at large, Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins, Be...
Página 55 - Some to Conceit alone their taste confine, And glitt'ring thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring Chaos and wild heap of wit. Poets, like painters, thus, unskill'd to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art.
Página 223 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than Hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue.
Página 191 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Página 196 - 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.