The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by R. Carruthers, Volumen31853 |
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... fame of bad authors would be much better consulted than that of all the good ones in the world ; and not one of an hundred had ever been called by his right name . They mistake the whole matter : it is not charity to encourage them in ...
... fame of bad authors would be much better consulted than that of all the good ones in the world ; and not one of an hundred had ever been called by his right name . They mistake the whole matter : it is not charity to encourage them in ...
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... fame , so in judgment ) by the modest and simple - minded MR . LEONARD WELSTED ; " 16 who , out of great respect to our poet not naming him , doth yet glance at his essay , together with the Duke of Buckingham's , and the criticisms of ...
... fame , so in judgment ) by the modest and simple - minded MR . LEONARD WELSTED ; " 16 who , out of great respect to our poet not naming him , doth yet glance at his essay , together with the Duke of Buckingham's , and the criticisms of ...
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... fame to these mere vocals give ; Pope more than we can offer should receive : For when some gliding river is his theme , His lines run smoother than the smoothest stream , " & c . MIST'S JOURNAL , June 8 , 1728 . Although he says ...
... fame to these mere vocals give ; Pope more than we can offer should receive : For when some gliding river is his theme , His lines run smoother than the smoothest stream , " & c . MIST'S JOURNAL , June 8 , 1728 . Although he says ...
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... Fame . But now the impatient reader will be apt to say , if so many and various graces go to the making up a hero , what mortal shall suffice to bear his character ? Ill hath he read , who seeth not , in every trace of this picture ...
... Fame . But now the impatient reader will be apt to say , if so many and various graces go to the making up a hero , what mortal shall suffice to bear his character ? Ill hath he read , who seeth not , in every trace of this picture ...
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... fame ' s in thine , like lesser currents lost ; Thy nobler stream shall visit Jove's abodes , To shine among the stars , and bathe the gods . " Through half the heavens he pours the exalted urn ; BOOK II . ] 83 THE DUNCIAD .
... fame ' s in thine , like lesser currents lost ; Thy nobler stream shall visit Jove's abodes , To shine among the stars , and bathe the gods . " Through half the heavens he pours the exalted urn ; BOOK II . ] 83 THE DUNCIAD .
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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...