The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1752 |
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... ter quatient humum . Me nec femina , nec puer Jam , nec fpes animi credula mutui , Nec certare juvat mero , Nec vincire novis tempora floribus . He , with a hundred Arts refin'd , Shall stretch 32 IMITATIONS Book IV .
... ter quatient humum . Me nec femina , nec puer Jam , nec fpes animi credula mutui , Nec certare juvat mero , Nec vincire novis tempora floribus . He , with a hundred Arts refin'd , Shall stretch 32 IMITATIONS Book IV .
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... Shall glitter o'er the pendent green , Where Thames reflects the visionary scene : Thither , the filver - founding lyres Shall call the smiling Loves , and young Defires ; There , ev'ry Grace and Muse shall throng , Exalt the dance , or ...
... Shall glitter o'er the pendent green , Where Thames reflects the visionary scene : Thither , the filver - founding lyres Shall call the smiling Loves , and young Defires ; There , ev'ry Grace and Muse shall throng , Exalt the dance , or ...
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... shall Waller yield to time , Nor penfive Cowley's moral lay Sages and Chiefs long fince had birth Ere Cæfar was , or Newton nam'd ; These rais'd new Empires o'er the Earth , And Thofe , new Heav'ns and Systems fram'd . Vain was the ...
... shall Waller yield to time , Nor penfive Cowley's moral lay Sages and Chiefs long fince had birth Ere Cæfar was , or Newton nam'd ; These rais'd new Empires o'er the Earth , And Thofe , new Heav'ns and Systems fram'd . Vain was the ...
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... her charms in breathing paint engage ; Her modeft cheek shall warm a future age . Poem . NOTES . 56 Frefnoy employed above twenty Years in finishing his Beauty , frail flow'r that ev'ry feafon fears , Blooms MISCELLANIE S. 47.
... her charms in breathing paint engage ; Her modeft cheek shall warm a future age . Poem . NOTES . 56 Frefnoy employed above twenty Years in finishing his Beauty , frail flow'r that ev'ry feafon fears , Blooms MISCELLANIE S. 47.
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... shall endless smiles bestow , And foft Belinda's blush for ever glow . 60 65 Oh lafting as those Colours may they shine , Free as thy ftroke , yet faultlefs as thy line ; New graces yearly like thy works difplay , Soft without weakness ...
... shall endless smiles bestow , And foft Belinda's blush for ever glow . 60 65 Oh lafting as those Colours may they shine , Free as thy ftroke , yet faultlefs as thy line ; New graces yearly like thy works difplay , Soft without weakness ...
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Página 94 - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud and great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had lived, and that he died.
Página 327 - Locke takes notice of a mother who permitted them to her children, but rewarded or punished them as they treated them well or ill. This was no other than entering them betimes into a daily exercise of humanity, and improving their very diversion to a virtue.
Página 370 - Odyssey above the ^Eneis; as that the hero is a wiser man, and the action of the one more beneficial to his country than that of the other; or else they blame him for not doing what he never...
Página 403 - Prose from verse they did not know, and they accordingly printed one for the other throughout the volume.
Página 393 - Hamlet, enlarged to almost as much again as at first, and many others. I believe the common opinion of his want of learning proceeded from no better ground. This, too, might be thought a praise by some, and to this his errors have as injudiciously been ascribed by others.
Página 357 - ... evidently, affeCt us not in proportion to thofe of Homer. His characters of valour are much alike...
Página 355 - This is a field in which no succeeding poets could dispute with Homer; and whatever commendations have been allowed them on this head, are by no means for their invention in having enlarged his circle, but for their judgment in having contracted it. For when the mode of learning changed in following ages, and...
Página 409 - I will conclude by saying of Shakespeare, that with all his faults, and with all the irregularity of his drama, one may look upon his works, in comparison of those that are more finished and regular, as upon an ancient majestic piece of Gothic architecture, compared with a neat modern building.
Página 397 - Vati noceat . But however this contention might be carried on by the Partizans on either side, I cannot help thinking these two great Poets were good friends, and lived on amicable terms and in offices of society with each other.
Página 49 - Love, rais'd on beauty, will like that decay, Our hearts may bear its slender...