The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by R. Carruthers, Volume 31853 |
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... o'er her head , Philosophy that lean'd on heaven before , Shrinks to her second cause and is no more . Physic of Metaphysic begs defence , And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense ! See Mystery to Mathematics fly ! In vain they gaze , turn ...
... o'er her head , Philosophy that lean'd on heaven before , Shrinks to her second cause and is no more . Physic of Metaphysic begs defence , And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense ! See Mystery to Mathematics fly ! In vain they gaze , turn ...
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... o'er thy sad distress , And Venus shall the texture bless , " & c . Come we now to his translation of the Iliad , celebrated by numerous pens , yet shall it suffice to mention the indefatigable 19 Letter to B. B. at the end of the ...
... o'er thy sad distress , And Venus shall the texture bless , " & c . Come we now to his translation of the Iliad , celebrated by numerous pens , yet shall it suffice to mention the indefatigable 19 Letter to B. B. at the end of the ...
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... o'er the land and deep . In eldest time , ere mortals writ or read , Ere Pallas issued from the Thunderer's head , Dulness o'er all possess'd her ancient right , Daughter of Chaos and eternal Night : Fate in their dotage this fair idiot ...
... o'er the land and deep . In eldest time , ere mortals writ or read , Ere Pallas issued from the Thunderer's head , Dulness o'er all possess'd her ancient right , Daughter of Chaos and eternal Night : Fate in their dotage this fair idiot ...
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... o'er the gates , by his famed father's hand , Great Cibber's brazen , brainless brothers stand ; One cell there is , conceal'd from vulgar eye , The cave of Poverty and Poetry . Keen , hollow winds howl through the bleak recess , Emblem ...
... o'er the gates , by his famed father's hand , Great Cibber's brazen , brainless brothers stand ; One cell there is , conceal'd from vulgar eye , The cave of Poverty and Poetry . Keen , hollow winds howl through the bleak recess , Emblem ...
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... o'er in robes of varying hues , With self - applause her wild creation views ; Sees momentary monsters rise and fall , And with her own fool's - colours gilds them all . ' Twas on the day , when * rich and grave , 18 Like Cimon ...
... o'er in robes of varying hues , With self - applause her wild creation views ; Sees momentary monsters rise and fall , And with her own fool's - colours gilds them all . ' Twas on the day , when * rich and grave , 18 Like Cimon ...
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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...