The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 8J.F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... Beauty which Nature only can impart , And such a polish as disgraces Art ; But Fate dispos'd them in this humble sort , And hid in deserts what would charm a court . ' I shall here insert two Letters to Sir Hans Sloane , on the ...
... Beauty which Nature only can impart , And such a polish as disgraces Art ; But Fate dispos'd them in this humble sort , And hid in deserts what would charm a court . ' I shall here insert two Letters to Sir Hans Sloane , on the ...
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... beauty and ruin , he inquires what house is falling , or what church is rising ? So little taste have our common Tritons of Vitruvius ; whatever de- light the poetical gods of the river may take , in re- flecting on their streams , my ...
... beauty and ruin , he inquires what house is falling , or what church is rising ? So little taste have our common Tritons of Vitruvius ; whatever de- light the poetical gods of the river may take , in re- flecting on their streams , my ...
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... beauty , wit , and valour , would no more engage our passions in the pleasurable pursuit of them , though assisted by this increase : If so , and if monsters only as various as those of Nile arise from this abundance , who that has any ...
... beauty , wit , and valour , would no more engage our passions in the pleasurable pursuit of them , though assisted by this increase : If so , and if monsters only as various as those of Nile arise from this abundance , who that has any ...
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... beauty of the colouring . What I looked upon as a rant of Barrow's , I now begin to think a serious truth , and could almost venture to set my hand to it , Hæc quicunque legit , tantum cecinisse putabit Mæoniden Ranas , Virgilium ...
... beauty of the colouring . What I looked upon as a rant of Barrow's , I now begin to think a serious truth , and could almost venture to set my hand to it , Hæc quicunque legit , tantum cecinisse putabit Mæoniden Ranas , Virgilium ...
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... beauty , the calumni- ators of virtue , the jokers at reason and religion . I presume these are creatures and things as unknown to you , as we of this dirty orb are to the inhabitants of the planet Jupiter ; except a few fervent prayers ...
... beauty , the calumni- ators of virtue , the jokers at reason and religion . I presume these are creatures and things as unknown to you , as we of this dirty orb are to the inhabitants of the planet Jupiter ; except a few fervent prayers ...
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acquaintance Adieu agreeable Arbuthnot assure Atterbury beautiful believe BISHOP OF ROCHESTER BLOUNT called cern Coleshill compliment concern Court Dean Swift DEAR SIR death deserves desire Digby Dutchess EDWARD BLOUNT entertain esteem expect fancy father favour fear friendship gardens give glad Gorboduc gout grotto hand happy hear heart heartily hither Homer honour hope Iliad kind Lady late least leave less LETTER live London look Lord Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke Lord Burlington Lordship mankind manner Mary Digby melancholy mind mother never obliged occasion opinion Papist pleased pleasure poem poet poetry Pope Pray reason received remember sense servant shew sincere soon spirit sure taste tell thank thing thought town truth Twickenham verses VIII Virgil Voltaire Whig whole Winchester College wish word writ write
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Página 329 - tis justice, soon or late, Mercy alike to kill or save. Virtue unmov'd can hear the call, And face the flash that melts the ball.
Página 210 - I thank God, her death was as easy as her life was innocent ; and as it cost her not a groan, or even a sigh, there is yet upon her countenance such an expression of tranquillity, nay, almost of pleasure, that it is even amiable to behold it.
Página 31 - Walls of which all the objects of the River, Hills, Woods, and Boats, are forming a moving Picture in their visible Radiations: And when you have a mind to light it up, it affords you a very different Scene: it is finished with Shells interspersed with Pieces of Looking-glass in angular forms; and in the Ceiling is a Star of the same Material, at which when a Lamp (of an orbicular Figure of thin Alabaster) is hung in the Middle, a thousand pointed Rays glitter and are reflected over the Place.
Página 153 - ... report the valuable ones of any other man. So the elegy I renounce. I condole with you from my heart, on the loss of so worthy a man, and a friend to us both. Now he is gone, I...
Página 149 - CONGREVE has merit of the highest kind ; he is an original writer, who borrowed neither the models of his plot nor the manner of his dialogue.
Página 154 - HAVE many years ago magnified in my own mind, and repeated to you, a ninth Beatitude, added to the eighth in the Scripture ; " Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Página 272 - I know, would even marry Dennis for your sake, because he is your man, and loves his master. In short come down forthwith, or give me good reasons for delaying, though but for a day or two, by the next post. If I find them just, I will come up to you, though you...
Página 152 - As to any papers left behind him, I dare say they can be but few; for this reason, he never wrote out of vanity, or thought much of the applause of men.
Página 354 - I shall say nothing. I have given orders to be sent for, the first minute of your arrival (which I beg you will let them know at Mr. Jervas's). I am fourscore miles from London, a short journey compared to that I so often thought at least of undertaking, rather than die without seeing you again. Though the place I am in is such as I would not quit for the town, if I did not value you more than any, nay...
Página 328 - John (who never separated from her) sate by her side, having raked two or three heaps together to secure her. Immediately there was heard so loud a crack as if Heaven had burst asunder. The labourers, all solicitous for each other's safety, called to one another : ' those that were nearest our lovers, hearing no answer...