The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorCrissy & Markley, 1851 - 484 páginas |
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... flames , as he did likewise a comedy and a tragedy , the latter taken from a story in the legend of St. Genevieve , both of these being the product of those early days ; but his Pastorals , which were writ . ten in 1704 , when he was ...
... flames , as he did likewise a comedy and a tragedy , the latter taken from a story in the legend of St. Genevieve , both of these being the product of those early days ; but his Pastorals , which were writ . ten in 1704 , when he was ...
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... flames for ever prey , By night he scorches , as he burns by day . AUTUMN . THE THIRD PASTORAL ; OR , HYLAS AND EGON . To Mr. Wycherley . BENEATH the shade a spreading beech displays , Hylas and Ægon sang their rural lays : This mourn'd ...
... flames for ever prey , By night he scorches , as he burns by day . AUTUMN . THE THIRD PASTORAL ; OR , HYLAS AND EGON . To Mr. Wycherley . BENEATH the shade a spreading beech displays , Hylas and Ægon sang their rural lays : This mourn'd ...
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... flame , Like them in beauty , should be like in fame . Here hills and vales , the woodland and the plain , Here earth and water seem to strive again ; Not chaos - like together crush'd and bruised , But , as the world , harmoniously ...
... flame , Like them in beauty , should be like in fame . Here hills and vales , the woodland and the plain , Here earth and water seem to strive again ; Not chaos - like together crush'd and bruised , But , as the world , harmoniously ...
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... dyes , His purple crest , and scarlet circled eyes , The vivid green his shining plumes unfold His painted wings , and breast that flames with gold 1 Nor yet , when moist Arcturus clouds the sky , WINDSOR FOREST . 57.
... dyes , His purple crest , and scarlet circled eyes , The vivid green his shining plumes unfold His painted wings , and breast that flames with gold 1 Nor yet , when moist Arcturus clouds the sky , WINDSOR FOREST . 57.
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... flames glow round the frozen pole ; Or under southern skies exalt their sails , Led by new stars , and borne by spicy gales ! For me the balm shall bleed , and amber flow , The coral redden , and the ruby glow , The pearly shell its ...
... flames glow round the frozen pole ; Or under southern skies exalt their sails , Led by new stars , and borne by spicy gales ! For me the balm shall bleed , and amber flow , The coral redden , and the ruby glow , The pearly shell its ...
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Página 11 - 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 240 - KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan, 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 231 - Awake, my ST JOHN ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. Let us (since Life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A Wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot; Or Garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Página 108 - T' inclose the Lock ; now joins it, to divide. Ev'n then, before the fatal engine closed, A wretched sylph too fondly interposed ; Fate urged the shears, and cut the sylph in twain, (But airy substance soon unites again;) The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, for ever, and for ever ! Then flash'd the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th
Página 237 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Página 55 - Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused ; Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Página 103 - A brighter wash ; to curl their waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs ; Nay, oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a flounce, or add a furbelow.
Página 264 - Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own : Condemn'd in business or in arts to drudge, Without a second, or without a judge : Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land ? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
Página 120 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Página 117 - Rather than so, ah let me still survive, And burn in Cupid's flames — but burn alive. Restore the Lock ! she cries ; and all around, Restore the Lock ! the vaulted roofs rebound.