Alexander Pope, Volume 3Harper & brothers, 1880 - 209 pages |
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... reason to doubt his proud assertion , — ' That , if he pleased , he pleased by manly ways ; " but it is impossible for any lover of literature to grudge admiration to this singular triumph of pure intellect over external disadvantages ...
... reason to doubt his proud assertion , — ' That , if he pleased , he pleased by manly ways ; " but it is impossible for any lover of literature to grudge admiration to this singular triumph of pure intellect over external disadvantages ...
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... reason that his " little , tender , crazy carcass , ' as Wycherley calls it , was utterly unfit for such excesses as ... reasons for friendly warning . But some of his writings are stained by pruriency and downright obscenity ; whilst ...
... reason that his " little , tender , crazy carcass , ' as Wycherley calls it , was utterly unfit for such excesses as ... reasons for friendly warning . But some of his writings are stained by pruriency and downright obscenity ; whilst ...
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... reason . His head was full of maxims , some of which strike us as palpable truisms , and others as typ- ical specimens of wooden pedantry . Dryden had set the example of looking upon the French critics as authoritative lawgivers in ...
... reason . His head was full of maxims , some of which strike us as palpable truisms , and others as typ- ical specimens of wooden pedantry . Dryden had set the example of looking upon the French critics as authoritative lawgivers in ...
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... reason , it seems to be simply that Pope never crosses the undefinable , but yet ineffaceable , line which separates true poetry from rheto- ric . The Eloisa ends rather flatly by one of Pope's char- acteristic aphorisms . " He best can ...
... reason , it seems to be simply that Pope never crosses the undefinable , but yet ineffaceable , line which separates true poetry from rheto- ric . The Eloisa ends rather flatly by one of Pope's char- acteristic aphorisms . " He best can ...
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... reason for doubting his perfect sincerity and good meaning a little dose of cold water . The poem , as it stood , was a " delicious little thing " -merum sal— and it would be a pity to alter it . 3 II . ] FIRST PERIOD OF POPE'S LITERARY ...
... reason for doubting his perfect sincerity and good meaning a little dose of cold water . The poem , as it stood , was a " delicious little thing " -merum sal— and it would be a pity to alter it . 3 II . ] FIRST PERIOD OF POPE'S LITERARY ...
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Page 132 - And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense ! See Mystery to Mathematics fly ! In vain ! They gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word ; Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Page 60 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — 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...
Page 26 - True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Page 36 - And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast: There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow; While angels with their silver wings o'ershade The ground now sacred by thy relics made.
Page 88 - tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Page 172 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, 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 full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 41 - This Day, black Omens threat the brightest Fair, That e'er deserv'da watchful Spirit's Care ; Some dire Disaster, or by Force, or Slight; But what, or where, the Fates have wrapt in Night. Whether the Nymph shall break Diana's Law, Or some frail China Jar receive a Flaw...
Page 190 - Blest paper-credit ! last and best supply ! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly. Gold imp'd by thee, can compass hardest things, Can pocket states, can fetch or carry kings ; A single leaf shall waft an army o'er, Or ship off senates to...
Page 32 - And where, though all things differ, all agree. Here waving groves a chequer'd scene display, And part admit, and part exclude the day ; 'As some coy nymph her lover's warm address Nor quite indulges, nor can quite repress.
Page 33 - The time shall come, when free as seas or wind Unbounded Thames ° shall flow for all mankind ; Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide ; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.