The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeA.L. Burt, 1890 - 550 pages |
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... rules invade ; ( As kings dispense with laws themselves have made ) Moderns beware ! or if you must offend Against the precept , ne'er transgress its end ; Let it be seldom , and compelled by need ; And have , at least , their precedent ...
... rules invade ; ( As kings dispense with laws themselves have made ) Moderns beware ! or if you must offend Against the precept , ne'er transgress its end ; Let it be seldom , and compelled by need ; And have , at least , their precedent ...
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... rules , Is pride , the never - failing voice of fools . Whatever nature has in worth denied , She gives in large ... rule himself . Some faults in this essay which his antagonist Dennis detected , the poet had the good sense to correct ...
... rules , Is pride , the never - failing voice of fools . Whatever nature has in worth denied , She gives in large ... rule himself . Some faults in this essay which his antagonist Dennis detected , the poet had the good sense to correct ...
Page 47
... rules each verbal critic lays , For not to know some trifles , is a praise . Most critics , fond of some subservient art , Still make the whole depend upon a part : They talk of principles , but notions prize , And all to one loved ...
... rules each verbal critic lays , For not to know some trifles , is a praise . Most critics , fond of some subservient art , Still make the whole depend upon a part : They talk of principles , but notions prize , And all to one loved ...
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... rule will hold ; Alike fantastic , if too new , or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried , Nor yet the last to lay the old aside . But most by numbers judge a poet's song And smooth or rough , with them is right or wrong : In ...
... rule will hold ; Alike fantastic , if too new , or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried , Nor yet the last to lay the old aside . But most by numbers judge a poet's song And smooth or rough , with them is right or wrong : In ...
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... rules , Contending wits become the sport of fools ; But still the worst with most regret commend , For each ill author is as bad a friend . To what base ends , and by what abject ways , Are mortals urged through sacred lust of praise ...
... rules , Contending wits become the sport of fools ; But still the worst with most regret commend , For each ill author is as bad a friend . To what base ends , and by what abject ways , Are mortals urged through sacred lust of praise ...
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Page 359 - Hark! they whisper; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?
Page 189 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state : •> From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could. suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, 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 221 - Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! Thou Great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind...
Page 358 - Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Page 273 - Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all see-saw, between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile Antithesis.
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: At once they gratify their scent and taste, And frequent cups prolong the rich repast.
Page 187 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 184 - Before her, fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain; As Argus
Page 85 - And hence th' egregious wizard shall foredoom The fate of Louis, and the fall of Rome. Then cease, bright nymph ! to mourn thy ravished hair, Which adds new glory to the shining sphere! Not all the tresses that fair head can boast, Shall draw such envy as the Lock you lost. For after all the murders of your eye, When, after millions slain, yourself shall die; When those fair suns shall set, as set they must, And all those tresses shall be laid in dust, This lock the Muse shall consecrate to fame,...
Page 193 - All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high, progressive life may go! Around, how wide! how deep extend below! Vast chain of Being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing.