The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Revised and arranged expressly for the use of young people, by W.C. MacreadyBradbury & Evans, 1849 - 392 pages |
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... sense of every passage , the fear of defeating the object of the attempt by perhaps provoking in such cases an unbecoming curiosity , would have been an argument against its adoption . The notes have been selected not so much to satisfy ...
... sense of every passage , the fear of defeating the object of the attempt by perhaps provoking in such cases an unbecoming curiosity , would have been an argument against its adoption . The notes have been selected not so much to satisfy ...
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... sense ( and indeed there are twenty men of wit for one man of sense ) , his living thus in a course of flattery may put him in no small danger of becoming a coxcomb : if he has , he will consequently have so much diffidence as not to ...
... sense ( and indeed there are twenty men of wit for one man of sense ) , his living thus in a course of flattery may put him in no small danger of becoming a coxcomb : if he has , he will consequently have so much diffidence as not to ...
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... sense , must have been common sense in all times ; and what we call learning , is but the knowledge of the sense of our prede- cessors . Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own , because they resemble the ancients , may as ...
... sense , must have been common sense in all times ; and what we call learning , is but the knowledge of the sense of our prede- cessors . Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own , because they resemble the ancients , may as ...
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... sense , a quality that not only renders one capable of being a good writer , but a good man . And if I have made any ... senses ; without any murmurs against the justice of this age , or any mad appeals to posterity . I declare I shall ...
... sense , a quality that not only renders one capable of being a good writer , but a good man . And if I have made any ... senses ; without any murmurs against the justice of this age , or any mad appeals to posterity . I declare I shall ...
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... sense to the length of four lines , which would have been more closely confined in the couplet . In the manners , thoughts , and characters , he comes near to Theocritus himself ; though , notwithstanding all the care he has taken , he ...
... sense to the length of four lines , which would have been more closely confined in the couplet . In the manners , thoughts , and characters , he comes near to Theocritus himself ; though , notwithstanding all the care he has taken , he ...
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Page 314 - Sense ! See Mystery to Mathematics fly! In vain, they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. 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.
Page 127 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way ; Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven...
Page 12 - Rise, crown'd with light, imperial Salem, rise! Exalt thy towery head, and lift thy eyes! See a long race thy spacious courts adorn; See future sons and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks, on every side arise Demanding life, impatient for the skies!
Page 12 - Nor evening Cynthia fill her silver horn ; But lost, dissolved in thy superior rays, One tide of glory, one unclouded blaze O'erflow thy courts; the Light himself shall shine Reveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine...
Page 156 - That REASON, PASSION, answer one great aim ; That true SELF-LOVE and SOCIAL are the same ; That VIRTUE only makes our bliss below ; And all our knowledge is, OURSELVES TO KNOW. THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER. DEO OPT. MAX, FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord...
Page 37 - Who gave the ball or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes: At every word a reputation dies.
Page 27 - whispers through the trees:" If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep...
Page 127 - Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.
Page 11 - No more shall nation against nation rise, Nor ardent warriors meet with hateful eyes. Nor fields with gleaming steel be cover'd o'er, The brazen trumpets kindle rage no more ; But useless lances into scythes shall bend, And the broad falchion in a plough-share end.
Page 36 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home ; Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.