The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeMacmillan, 1873 - 600 pages |
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... fool might once himself alone expose , Now one in verse makes many more in prose . ' Tis with our judgments as our ... fools . In search of wit these lose their common sense , And then turn Critics in their own defence : Each burns alike ...
... fool might once himself alone expose , Now one in verse makes many more in prose . ' Tis with our judgments as our ... fools . In search of wit these lose their common sense , And then turn Critics in their own defence : Each burns alike ...
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... fools , Who durst depart from Aristotle's rules . 260 270 Our Author , happy in a judge so nice , Produc'd his Play , and begg'd the Knight's advice ; Made him observe the subject , and the plot , The manners , passions , unities ; what ...
... fools , Who durst depart from Aristotle's rules . 260 270 Our Author , happy in a judge so nice , Produc'd his Play , and begg'd the Knight's advice ; Made him observe the subject , and the plot , The manners , passions , unities ; what ...
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... fools admire7 , but men of sense approve : As things seem large which we thro ' mists descry , Dulness is ever apt to magnify . Some foreign writers , some our own despise ; The Ancients only , or the Moderns prize . Thus Wit , like ...
... fools admire7 , but men of sense approve : As things seem large which we thro ' mists descry , Dulness is ever apt to magnify . Some foreign writers , some our own despise ; The Ancients only , or the Moderns prize . Thus Wit , like ...
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... fools , so wise we grow , Our wiser sons , no doubt , will think us so . Once School - divines this zealous isle o'er - spread ; Who knew most Sentences , was deepest read1 ; Faith , Gospel , all , seem'd made to be disputed , And none ...
... fools , so wise we grow , Our wiser sons , no doubt , will think us so . Once School - divines this zealous isle o'er - spread ; Who knew most Sentences , was deepest read1 ; Faith , Gospel , all , seem'd made to be disputed , And none ...
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... fools are pleas'd to laugh . Some valuing those of their own side or mind , Still make themselves the measure of mankind : Fondly we think we honour merit then , When we but praise ourselves in other men . Parties in Wit attend on those ...
... fools are pleas'd to laugh . Some valuing those of their own side or mind , Still make themselves the measure of mankind : Fondly we think we honour merit then , When we but praise ourselves in other men . Parties in Wit attend on those ...
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Page 40 - Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, " Sister spirit, come away ! " What is this absorbs me quite ? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my...
Page 274 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as...
Page 74 - The Berries crackle, and the Mill turns round ; On shining Altars of Japan they raise The silver Lamp ; the fiery Spirits blaze. From silver Spouts the grateful Liquors glide, While China's Earth receives the smoking Tide.
Page 49 - 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.
Page 68 - And decks the goddess with the glitt'ring spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transform'd to combs, the speckled, and the white.
Page 52 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 65 - Muse! is due: This, ev'n Belinda may vouchsafe to view: Slight is the subject, but not so the praise, If she inspire, and he approve my lays. Say what strange motive, Goddess! could compel A well-bred lord t
Page 78 - She said ; then raging to Sir Plume repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs : (Sir Plume of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane,) With earnest eyes, and round unthinking face, He first the snuff-box...
Page 277 - Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Page 275 - Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing! that acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart; Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord.