Selected Poems of Alexander PopePearson Education, 1916 - 146 páginas |
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... o'er ' em sweeps the swelling net . Thus ( if small things we may with great compare ) When Albion sends her eager sons to war , Some thoughtless Town , with ease and plenty blest , Near , and more near , the closing lines invest ...
... o'er ' em sweeps the swelling net . Thus ( if small things we may with great compare ) When Albion sends her eager sons to war , Some thoughtless Town , with ease and plenty blest , Near , and more near , the closing lines invest ...
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... o'er the lawns , the forest walks surround , Rouse the fleet hart , and cheer the opening hound . Th ' impatient courser pants in every vein , And , pawing , seems to beat the distant plain : Hills , vales , and floods appear already ...
... o'er the lawns , the forest walks surround , Rouse the fleet hart , and cheer the opening hound . Th ' impatient courser pants in every vein , And , pawing , seems to beat the distant plain : Hills , vales , and floods appear already ...
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... o'er their coursers ' heads with eager speed , And earth rolls back beneath the flying steed . Extracts from An Essay on Criticism Nature and the Rules First follow Nature , and your judgment frame By her just standard , which is still ...
... o'er their coursers ' heads with eager speed , And earth rolls back beneath the flying steed . Extracts from An Essay on Criticism Nature and the Rules First follow Nature , and your judgment frame By her just standard , which is still ...
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... scours the plain , Flies o'er th ' unbending corn , and skims along the main . Hear how Timotheus ' varied lays surprize , And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! While , at each change , the son of Libyan 23 True Ease in Writing.
... scours the plain , Flies o'er th ' unbending corn , and skims along the main . Hear how Timotheus ' varied lays surprize , And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! While , at each change , the son of Libyan 23 True Ease in Writing.
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... o'er her head ; A Youth more glitt'ring than a Birth - night Beau , ( That ev'n in slumber caus'd her cheek to glow ) Seem'd to her ear his winning lips to lay , And thus in whispers said , or seem'd to say . ' Fairest of mortals , thou ...
... o'er her head ; A Youth more glitt'ring than a Birth - night Beau , ( That ev'n in slumber caus'd her cheek to glow ) Seem'd to her ear his winning lips to lay , And thus in whispers said , or seem'd to say . ' Fairest of mortals , thou ...
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Abelard Addison ALEXANDER POPE Ambrose Philips Arbuthnot Atalantis Bavius beauty Belinda Bentley blest breast breath Canto charms Cibber clouds Colley Cibber criticism Dæmons dead death divine dread Duke dull Dulness Dunce Dunciad e'er Earl edited Eloïsa Epistle to Dr Essay Essay on Criticism eternal Ev'n ev'ry Extracts eyes F. W. Bateson fair fame fate flow'rs fool Francis Atterbury Gnome Goddess grace hair hand head heart heav'n honour Kings Lady Lock Lord Lord Hervey lov'd lovers maid moral Muse Nature nymph o'er once Passion Pastorals poet poetry Pope Pope's pow'r pray'rs pride Queen rage rest rise Roman round Sappho satire Scriblerus Club Selected Poems sense shining sighs soft soul spirits Swift Sylphs tears Thalestris thee thine thou thro throne trembling Twickenham Umbriel verse Whig Windsor Forest wings youth ΙΟ
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Página 122 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heav'n pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, To enjoy is to obey.
Página 22 - 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 63 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Página 83 - Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? What though my name stood rubric on the walls Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Página 63 - Hope humbly then: with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher Death; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that Hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never Is, but always To be blest: The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Página 123 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Página 29 - A heav'nly image in the glass appears, To that she bends, to that her eyes she rears; Th' inferior Priestess, at her altar's side, Trembling begins the sacred rites of Pride. Unnumber'd treasures ope at once, and here The various...
Página 23 - Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
Página 134 - Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child ; With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age ; Above temptation, in a low estate ; And uncorrupted...
Página 39 - Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine,' The victor cried; 'the glorious prize is mine! While fish in streams, or birds delight in air, Or in a coach and six the British- fair, As long as Atalantis shall be read...