The Works of Alexander Pope, Volumen2J.F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... manner entirely altered , the descriptions and most of the particular thoughts my own ; yet I could not suffer it to ... manners of different times ; and they should never be spun too long , or too much clogged with trivial circumstances ...
... manner entirely altered , the descriptions and most of the particular thoughts my own ; yet I could not suffer it to ... manners of different times ; and they should never be spun too long , or too much clogged with trivial circumstances ...
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... manner of Ariosto rather than that of Tasso . Upon the whole , one may observe this sort of writing ( however discontinued of late ) was in all times so far from being rejected by the best poets , that some of them have rather erred by ...
... manner of Ariosto rather than that of Tasso . Upon the whole , one may observe this sort of writing ( however discontinued of late ) was in all times so far from being rejected by the best poets , that some of them have rather erred by ...
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... manners . From this singular man , who perished in a voyage from Constantinople to Venice 1365 , Petrarch received a Latin translation of the Iliad and Odyssey . Muratori , in his first book , Della Perfetta Poesia , p . 18 , relates ...
... manners . From this singular man , who perished in a voyage from Constantinople to Venice 1365 , Petrarch received a Latin translation of the Iliad and Odyssey . Muratori , in his first book , Della Perfetta Poesia , p . 18 , relates ...
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... manners , customs , characters , and habits , of our forefathers , whom he has brought before our eyes acting as on a stage ... manner of treating light and ridi- culous subjects ; for who ever will attentively consider the noble poem of ...
... manners , customs , characters , and habits , of our forefathers , whom he has brought before our eyes acting as on a stage ... manner of treating light and ridi- culous subjects ; for who ever will attentively consider the noble poem of ...
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... manner of the Provencial Poets , whose works were for the most part Visions , or pieces of imagination , and constantly de- scriptive . From these Petrarch and Chaucer frequently borrow the idea of their poems . See the Trionsi of the ...
... manner of the Provencial Poets , whose works were for the most part Visions , or pieces of imagination , and constantly de- scriptive . From these Petrarch and Chaucer frequently borrow the idea of their poems . See the Trionsi of the ...
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Página 354 - VIXIT TITULIS ET INVIDIA MAJOR ANNOS, HEU PAUCOS, XXXV. OB. FEB. XIV. MDCCXX. Statesman, yet Friend to Truth! of Soul sincere, In Action faithful, and in Honour clear! Who broke no Promise, serv'd no private End, Who gain'd no Title, and who lost no Friend, Ennobled by Himself, by All approv'd, Prais'd, wept, and honour'd, by the Muse he lov'd. THE
Página 35 - let the pealing organ blow In the full-voic'd quire below ; In service high and anthem clear, As may with sweetness through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heav'n before mine eyes.
Página 356 - to this fair Urn we trust. And sacred, place by DRYDEN'S awful dust: Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies, To which thy Tomb shall guide inquiring eyes. Peace to thy gentle shade, and endless rest! Blest in thy Genius, in thy Love too blest!
Página 351 - Vice had his hate and pity too. Blest Courtier! who could King and country please, Yet sacred keep his Friendships, and his Ease. Blest Peer! his great Forefathers ev'ry grace Reflecting, and reflected in his Race ; Where other BUCKHURSTS, other DORSETS shine, And Patriots still, or Poets, deck the line. NOTES.
Página 27 - heat? Yet, yet I love !—From Abelard it came, And Elo'isa yet must kiss the name. Dear fatal name ! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd; 10 Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixd with God's, his lov'd idea lies:
Página 92 - me live, or die unknown: Oh ! grant an honest fame, or grant me none ! " THIS poem contains great strokes of Gothic imagination, yet bordering often on the most ideal and capricious extravagance. The poet, in a vision, sees a temple of glass; ' In which were more images Of gold stondinge in sundrie stages,
Página 191 - Corinth's pleasing site surveys. Twas now the time when Phoebus yields to night, And rising Cynthia sheds her silver light, 475 Wide o'er the world in solemn pomp she drew, Her airy chariot hung with pearly dew ; All birds and beasts lie hush'd ; sleep steals away The wild desires of men, and toils of day,
Página 40 - more I hear, no more I view, 235 The phantom flies me, as unkind as you, I call aloud; it hears not what I say : I stretch my empty arms ; it glides away. To dream once more I close my willing eyes ; Ye soft illusions, dear deceits, arise ; 240 NOTES.
Página 17 - But when from hence he plung'd into the main, Deucalion scorn'd, and Pyrrha lov'd in vain. Haste, Sappho, haste, from high Leucadia throw Thy wretched weight, nor dread the deeps below !" She spoke, and vanish'd with the voice—I rise, And silent tears fall trickling from my eyes. 200 NOTES. Ver. 188. Leucadian
Página 281 - more genius and imagination; the one excelled in beauty, the other in energy. Michael Angelo has more of the poetical inspiration, his ideas are vast and sublime, his people are a superior order of beings; there is nothing about them, nothing in the air of their actions, or their attitudes, or the style and cast