The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by R. Carruthers, Volume 31853 |
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... less than own , it is our opinion , that to call these gentlemen bad authors is no sort of abuse , but a great truth . We cannot alter this opinion without some reason ; but we promise to do it in respect to every person who thinks it ...
... less than own , it is our opinion , that to call these gentlemen bad authors is no sort of abuse , but a great truth . We cannot alter this opinion without some reason ; but we promise to do it in respect to every person who thinks it ...
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... less forgive ) of his friends . They had called men of virtue and honour bad men , long before he had either leisure or inclination to call them bad writers : and some had been such old offenders , that he had quite forgotten their ...
... less forgive ) of his friends . They had called men of virtue and honour bad men , long before he had either leisure or inclination to call them bad writers : and some had been such old offenders , that he had quite forgotten their ...
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... less thought of : law can pronounce judgment only on open facts ; morality alone can pass censure on intentions of mischief ; so that for secret calumny , or the arrow flying in the dark , there is no public punishment left , but what a ...
... less thought of : law can pronounce judgment only on open facts ; morality alone can pass censure on intentions of mischief ; so that for secret calumny , or the arrow flying in the dark , there is no public punishment left , but what a ...
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... less in their morals than in their writings ; must poverty make nonsense sacred ? If so , the 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 ...
... less in their morals than in their writings ; must poverty make nonsense sacred ? If so , the 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 ...
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... less author - like style . Such seems to be a reasonable conjecture as to the actual state of the case . There was evidently a community of feeling both in literature and politics and with respect to the society they mingled in between ...
... less author - like style . Such seems to be a reasonable conjecture as to the actual state of the case . There was evidently a community of feeling both in literature and politics and with respect to the society they mingled in between ...
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Popular passages
Page 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
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...