The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeMacmillan, 1873 - 600 páginas |
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... Play A Prologue by Mr Pope to a Play for Mr 469 Dennis's Benefit 470 Macer : a Character Umbra 471 To Mr John Moore , Author of the cele- 472 8 8 8 REN 468 II . Epigram ( Should D - s print , & c . ) . III . Mr J. M. S - e catechised on ...
... Play A Prologue by Mr Pope to a Play for Mr 469 Dennis's Benefit 470 Macer : a Character Umbra 471 To Mr John Moore , Author of the cele- 472 8 8 8 REN 468 II . Epigram ( Should D - s print , & c . ) . III . Mr J. M. S - e catechised on ...
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... play founded on the Iliad . At Twyford he had prepared himself for this effort by the study of Ogilby's Homer , followed by that of Sandys ' Ovid ; and now that he was left to follow the bent of his own inclinations , his studies ...
... play founded on the Iliad . At Twyford he had prepared himself for this effort by the study of Ogilby's Homer , followed by that of Sandys ' Ovid ; and now that he was left to follow the bent of his own inclinations , his studies ...
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... play to Addison's Cato ; but the success and virtue of the great Whig author had in the end made a com- plete conquest of the honest mán . Though it is inadmissible on the strength of Pope's unproved insinuations to describe him as ...
... play to Addison's Cato ; but the success and virtue of the great Whig author had in the end made a com- plete conquest of the honest mán . Though it is inadmissible on the strength of Pope's unproved insinuations to describe him as ...
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... play was however damned on account of the extravagant nonsense of its last act , in which two lovers insert themselves respectively into the skins of a mummy and a crocodile . The Rehearsal , a play always used ( like its successor the ...
... play was however damned on account of the extravagant nonsense of its last act , in which two lovers insert themselves respectively into the skins of a mummy and a crocodile . The Rehearsal , a play always used ( like its successor the ...
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... play , And Albion's cliffs resound the rural lay . You , that too wise for pride , too good for pow'r , Enjoy the glory to be great no more , And carrying with you all the world can boast ,. F ' These Pastorals were written at the age of ...
... play , And Albion's cliffs resound the rural lay . You , that too wise for pride , too good for pow'r , Enjoy the glory to be great no more , And carrying with you all the world can boast ,. F ' These Pastorals were written at the age of ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Addison afterwards Alluding Ambrose Philips ancient Bavius blest Bolingbroke Book Bowles Carruthers character charms CHIG Cibber Colley Cibber Court Critics Dæmons death died divine Dryden Duke Dulness Dunciad Earl edition Epigram Epistle Essay on Criticism ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame famous fate fool Goddess grace happy heart Heav'n Homer honour Horace Iliad imitation King Lady learned letters lines literary live Lord Lord Hervey lov'd Moral Essays Muse Nature never night nymph o'er once Ovid Passion Pastorals pleas'd poem poet poetic poetry Pope Pope's pow'r praise pride published Queen rage reign rise Sappho Satire Scriblerus Club sense shade shine sing soul Swift taste thee things thou thought thro translation Twas Twickenham UNIV verse Virg Virtue Warburton Warton Whig wife write youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 40 - Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, " Sister spirit, come away ! " What is this absorbs me quite ? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my...
Página 274 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as...
Página 74 - The Berries crackle, and the Mill turns round ; On shining Altars of Japan they raise The silver Lamp ; the fiery Spirits blaze. From silver Spouts the grateful Liquors glide, While China's Earth receives the smoking Tide.
Página 49 - A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ : Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where Nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The gen'rous pleasure to be charm'd with wit.
Página 68 - And decks the goddess with the glitt'ring spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transform'd to combs, the speckled, and the white.
Página 52 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 65 - Muse! is due: This, ev'n Belinda may vouchsafe to view: Slight is the subject, but not so the praise, If she inspire, and he approve my lays. Say what strange motive, Goddess! could compel A well-bred lord t
Página 78 - She said ; then raging to Sir Plume repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs : (Sir Plume of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane,) With earnest eyes, and round unthinking face, He first the snuff-box...
Página 277 - Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Página 275 - Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing! that acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart; Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord.