The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by R. Carruthers, Volumen31853 |
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... Muse obeys the power . She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval , and of Chaos old ! Before her Fancy's gilded clouds decay , And all its varying rainbows die away . Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires , The ...
... Muse obeys the power . She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval , and of Chaos old ! Before her Fancy's gilded clouds decay , And all its varying rainbows die away . Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires , The ...
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... Muse , who had sued out a divorce from some superannuated sinner , upon account of impotence . " 15 No less peremptory is the censure of our hypercritical his- torian , MR . OLDMIXON . " I dare not say anything of the Essay on Criticism ...
... Muse , who had sued out a divorce from some superannuated sinner , upon account of impotence . " 15 No less peremptory is the censure of our hypercritical his- torian , MR . OLDMIXON . " I dare not say anything of the Essay on Criticism ...
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... muse , in an undertaking of this kind , which he supervised himself . " Whether Mr. Addison did find it conformable to his taste , or not , best appears from his own testimony the year following its publication , in these words : MR ...
... muse , in an undertaking of this kind , which he supervised himself . " Whether Mr. Addison did find it conformable to his taste , or not , best appears from his own testimony the year following its publication , in these words : MR ...
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... muse was an elder : nor was the gentleman ( who is a friend of our author ) employed by Mr. Addison to translate it after him , since he saith himself that he did it before.24 Contrariwise that Mr. Addison engaged our author in this ...
... muse was an elder : nor was the gentleman ( who is a friend of our author ) employed by Mr. Addison to translate it after him , since he saith himself that he did it before.24 Contrariwise that Mr. Addison engaged our author in this ...
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... Muse ? Though each great ancient court thee to his shrine , Though ev'ry laurel through the dome be thine , Go to the good and just , an awful train ! Thy soul's delight . " Recorded in like manner for his virtuous disposition , and ...
... Muse ? Though each great ancient court thee to his shrine , Though ev'ry laurel through the dome be thine , Go to the good and just , an awful train ! Thy soul's delight . " Recorded in like manner for his virtuous disposition , and ...
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Términos y frases comunes
abused admire Æneid alludes Ambrose Philips ancient arts Bavius behold blest bookseller called character Cibber Cleland Codrus Colley Cibber Concanen court Curll declared Dennis divine Dryden dull Dulness dunces Dunciad Edmund Curll Eliza Haywood epic epigram Essay on Criticism eyes fame favour fool former editions genius gentleman Gildon give goddess happy hath head Heaven hero Homer honour Ibid Iliad James Moore Smythe King labour laureate learned LEONARD WELSTED letters LEWIS THEOBALD lines living Lord madness mankind manner Matthew Concanen Mist's Journal moral Muse nature never notes o'er octavo Oldmixon passage passion persons poem poet poet's poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise Pref preface printed prose published Queen reader reason reign saith satire Scriblerus Shakspeare soul Swift thee Theobald things thou Tibbald translation true truth verse Virgil virtue Warburton Welsted whole words writ writing wrote
Pasajes populares
Página 284 - In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity : All must be false that thwart this one great end, And all of God that bless mankind or mend. Man, like the generous vine, supported lives ; The strength he gains is from th
Página 261 - Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God, or beast...
Página 252 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Página 291 - When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by ? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging wall ? But still this world (so fitted for the knave) Contents us not.
Página 3 - 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.
Página 271 - Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...
Página 298 - See the sole bliss heav'n could on all bestow ! Which who but feels can taste, but thinks can know: Yet poor with fortune, and with learning blind, The bad must miss, the good, untaught, will find; 330 Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through nature up to nature's God: Pursues that chain which links th...