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... turn sent them to Walsh , who was himself not unknown as a poet , but enjoyed a still higher reputation as a critic . He received the juvenile poems favourably and returned a gratifying verdict upon them : ' It is not flattery at all to ...
... turn sent them to Walsh , who was himself not unknown as a poet , but enjoyed a still higher reputation as a critic . He received the juvenile poems favourably and returned a gratifying verdict upon them : ' It is not flattery at all to ...
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... turn for a moment from the progress of Pope's literary career to the circumstances of his personal life , though indeed it would be a futile attempt to endeavour to dissociate the two . Soon after the publication of the first volume of ...
... turn for a moment from the progress of Pope's literary career to the circumstances of his personal life , though indeed it would be a futile attempt to endeavour to dissociate the two . Soon after the publication of the first volume of ...
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... turns on the words , which render the numbers extremely sweet and pleasing . As for the numbers themselves , though they are properly of the heroic measure , they should be the smoothest , the most easy and flowing imaginable . It is by ...
... turns on the words , which render the numbers extremely sweet and pleasing . As for the numbers themselves , though they are properly of the heroic measure , they should be the smoothest , the most easy and flowing imaginable . It is by ...
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... turn the furrow'd Plain . Here the bright crocus and blue vi'let glow ; Here western winds on breathing roses blow ... turns the Muses sing , Now hawthorns blossom , now the daisies spring , Now leaves the trees , and flow'rs adorn the ...
... turn the furrow'd Plain . Here the bright crocus and blue vi'let glow ; Here western winds on breathing roses blow ... turns the Muses sing , Now hawthorns blossom , now the daisies spring , Now leaves the trees , and flow'rs adorn the ...
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... turn your eyes1 . Oh how I long with you to pass my days , Invoke the Muses , and resound your praise ! Your praise the birds shall chant in ev'ry grove 2 , And winds shall waft it to the pow'rs above , But would you sing , and rival ...
... turn your eyes1 . Oh how I long with you to pass my days , Invoke the Muses , and resound your praise ! Your praise the birds shall chant in ev'ry grove 2 , And winds shall waft it to the pow'rs above , But would you sing , and rival ...
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Page 40 - Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, " Sister spirit, come away ! " What is this absorbs me quite ? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my...
Page 274 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as...
Page 74 - The Berries crackle, and the Mill turns round ; On shining Altars of Japan they raise The silver Lamp ; the fiery Spirits blaze. From silver Spouts the grateful Liquors glide, While China's Earth receives the smoking Tide.
Page 49 - A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ : Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where Nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The gen'rous pleasure to be charm'd with wit.
Page 68 - And decks the goddess with the glitt'ring spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transform'd to combs, the speckled, and the white.
Page 52 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 65 - Muse! is due: This, ev'n Belinda may vouchsafe to view: Slight is the subject, but not so the praise, If she inspire, and he approve my lays. Say what strange motive, Goddess! could compel A well-bred lord t
Page 78 - She said ; then raging to Sir Plume repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs : (Sir Plume of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane,) With earnest eyes, and round unthinking face, He first the snuff-box...
Page 277 - Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Page 275 - Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing! that acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart; Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord.