The Works of Alexander Pope, Volumen2J.F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... taste , to shew how differently Ovid and the Greek Tragedians have made Medea , Phædra , and Deinaira , speak on the very same occasions . Such a comparison would abundantly manifest the fancy and wit of Ovid , and the judgment and ...
... taste , to shew how differently Ovid and the Greek Tragedians have made Medea , Phædra , and Deinaira , speak on the very same occasions . Such a comparison would abundantly manifest the fancy and wit of Ovid , and the judgment and ...
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... taste of the age . His words are : " T'envoye ores Boece de Consola- tion , que j'ai translaté en François , jaçoit que bien entendes le Latin . It is to be regretted that we have no exact picture of the per- son and beauty of Eloisa ...
... taste of the age . His words are : " T'envoye ores Boece de Consola- tion , que j'ai translaté en François , jaçoit que bien entendes le Latin . It is to be regretted that we have no exact picture of the per- son and beauty of Eloisa ...
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... around her ] Here follows some of the maxims and reflections of Fenelon : - " God , in the beginning , disengages our hearts from impure pleasures by the taste he gives For her th ' unfading rose of Eden blooms , 38 ELOISA TO ABELARD .
... around her ] Here follows some of the maxims and reflections of Fenelon : - " God , in the beginning , disengages our hearts from impure pleasures by the taste he gives For her th ' unfading rose of Eden blooms , 38 ELOISA TO ABELARD .
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... taste , have declared themselves unable to relish allegorical poems . is not easy to penetrate into the meaning of this criticism ; for if fable be allowed one of the chief beauties , or , as Aristotle calls it , the very soul of poetry ...
... taste , have declared themselves unable to relish allegorical poems . is not easy to penetrate into the meaning of this criticism ; for if fable be allowed one of the chief beauties , or , as Aristotle calls it , the very soul of poetry ...
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... taste and liberal curiosity of the present age . It is always pleasing , and indeed useful , to look back to the rude beginnings of any art brought to a greater degree of elegance and grace . Virg . Aurea nunc , olim sylvestribus ...
... taste and liberal curiosity of the present age . It is always pleasing , and indeed useful , to look back to the rude beginnings of any art brought to a greater degree of elegance and grace . Virg . Aurea nunc , olim sylvestribus ...
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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