The Rape of the Lock: And An Essay on ManAmerican Book Company, 1898 - 110 páginas |
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... death was approaching . On the 6th he was all day delirious , which he mentioned , four days afterwards , as a suffi- cient humiliation of the vanity of man . He afterwards com- plained of seeing things as through a curtain , and in ...
... death was approaching . On the 6th he was all day delirious , which he mentioned , four days afterwards , as a suffi- cient humiliation of the vanity of man . He afterwards com- plained of seeing things as through a curtain , and in ...
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... death . His relations to women were those of tender friendship or affected gallantry , but they exercised no momentous influence upon his life . Lastly , a true generosity of spirit held him fast to his father's faith ; and as he became ...
... death . His relations to women were those of tender friendship or affected gallantry , but they exercised no momentous influence upon his life . Lastly , a true generosity of spirit held him fast to his father's faith ; and as he became ...
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... Death of John Bunyan , August 31 . 1700. Death of John Dryden , May 1 . Pope wrote his " Ode to Solitude . " 1702. Pope wrote translations of Statius's " Thebais ; " Ovid's " Epistle ; " " Sappho to Phaon . " Modernized Chau- cer's ...
... Death of John Bunyan , August 31 . 1700. Death of John Dryden , May 1 . Pope wrote his " Ode to Solitude . " 1702. Pope wrote translations of Statius's " Thebais ; " Ovid's " Epistle ; " " Sappho to Phaon . " Modernized Chau- cer's ...
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... Death of Pope's father . Publication of Pope's " Eloïsa to Abelard . " 1718. Pope removed to Twickenham . 1719. Death of Addison , June 17 . 1725. Publication of De Foe's " Robinson Crusoe . " Publication of Pope's Odyssey . 1726. Pope ...
... Death of Pope's father . Publication of Pope's " Eloïsa to Abelard . " 1718. Pope removed to Twickenham . 1719. Death of Addison , June 17 . 1725. Publication of De Foe's " Robinson Crusoe . " Publication of Pope's Odyssey . 1726. Pope ...
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... death survive . For when the fair in all their pride expire , To their first elements their souls retire : 1 Lines 37 , 38. From what is this parodied ? 2 " There was scarcely yet that sharp antithesis between ' the militia ' and ' the ...
... death survive . For when the fair in all their pride expire , To their first elements their souls retire : 1 Lines 37 , 38. From what is this parodied ? 2 " There was scarcely yet that sharp antithesis between ' the militia ' and ' the ...
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Æneid aërial alike Alluding angels beast beau beauty Belinda blessed bliss Bolingbroke breath Bryant's translation Cæsar called CANTO Catiline charms creatures death Dunciad e'er earth Empedocles Essay eternal ethereal Ev'n expression eyes fair fame fate fool forever glory gnome grace hair happiness head heart Heaven heroes Homer's Iliad honor human Iliad insect wings instinct John Caryll king knave laws Learn lock Lord man's mankind mind moral moving toyshop Nature Nature's never Note nymph o'er pain Paradise Lost passions PATTISON perfect pleasure poem poet poetic Pope Pope's pride Queen Rape reason rise satire Self-love sense Sir George Brown Sir Plume skies smiling train soul spirit spread Swift sylphs taste taught Thalestris thee things thou trembling Twickenham verse vice virtue walked with beast WARBURTON weak whole wings wise
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Página 29 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
Página 68 - 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...
Página 58 - He, who through vast immensity can pierce, See worlds on worlds compose one universe, Observe how system into system runs, What other planets circle other suns, What varied being peoples every star, May tell why Heaven has made us as we are.
Página 30 - But chiefly Love — to Love an Altar built, Of twelve vast French romances, neatly gilt. There lay three garters, half a pair of gloves, And all the trophies of his former loves ; With tender billet-doux he lights the pyre, And breathes three amorous sighs to raise the fire.
Página 98 - Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, oh virtue ! peace is all thy own.
Página 71 - The proper study of mankind is man. Placed 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...
Página 63 - Annual for me, the grape, the rose, renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew ; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings ; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise ; My foot-stool Earth, my canopy the skies.
Página 93 - The strength he gains is from th' embrace he gives. On their own axis as the planets run, Yet make at once their circle round the sun; So two consistent motions act the soul; And one regards itself, and one the whole. Thus God and nature link'd the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
Página 76 - Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength: So, cast and mingled with his very frame, The Mind's disease, its ruling Passion came; Each vital humour which should feed the whole, Soon flows to this, in body and in soul.
Página 40 - The little engine on his fingers' ends; This just behind Belinda's neck he spread, As o'er the fragrant steams she bends her head. Swift to the lock a thousand sprites repair, A thousand wings, by turns, blow back the hair; And thrice they twitched the diamond in her ear; Thrice she looked back, and thrice the foe drew near.