The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton, Volume 1A. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, C. Bathurst, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, J. Richardson, B. Law, S. Crowder, T. Longman, T. Field, and T. Caslon, 1760 |
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Pagina xix
... common sense in all times ; and what we call Learning , is but the knowledge of the sense of our predeceffors . Therefore they who fay our thoughts are not our own , because they resemble the Ancients , may as well fay our faces are not ...
... common sense in all times ; and what we call Learning , is but the knowledge of the sense of our predeceffors . Therefore they who fay our thoughts are not our own , because they resemble the Ancients , may as well fay our faces are not ...
Pagina xxvii
... must his pure and unaffected thought More nicely than the common fwains be wrought . So , with becoming art , the Players dress In filks the shepherd , and the shepherdess ; 35 Yet ftill unchang'd the form and mode remain , Shap'd ( xxvii )
... must his pure and unaffected thought More nicely than the common fwains be wrought . So , with becoming art , the Players dress In filks the shepherd , and the shepherdess ; 35 Yet ftill unchang'd the form and mode remain , Shap'd ( xxvii )
Pagina xxix
... common fand : Tofs'd up and down the gloffy fragments lay , 10 And dressed the rocky fhelves , and pav'd the painted bay . Thy treasures next arriv'd : and now we boast A nobler cargo on our barren coast : From thy luxuriant Forest we ...
... common fand : Tofs'd up and down the gloffy fragments lay , 10 And dressed the rocky fhelves , and pav'd the painted bay . Thy treasures next arriv'd : and now we boast A nobler cargo on our barren coast : From thy luxuriant Forest we ...
Pagina 94
... common , not the extraordinary effufions of the Holy Spirit . The figurative term is wonderfully happy . He who would moralize the ancient Mythology in the manner of Bacon , would fay , that by the poetical nectar , is meant the grace ...
... common , not the extraordinary effufions of the Holy Spirit . The figurative term is wonderfully happy . He who would moralize the ancient Mythology in the manner of Bacon , would fay , that by the poetical nectar , is meant the grace ...
Pagina 97
... common neglect of the following rule of good writing , " That when a figurative word is used , whatsoever is predicated of it ought not only to agree in terms to the thing to which the figure is applied , but likewife to that from which ...
... common neglect of the following rule of good writing , " That when a figurative word is used , whatsoever is predicated of it ought not only to agree in terms to the thing to which the figure is applied , but likewife to that from which ...
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Pagina 99 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Pagina 146 - 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.
Pagina 261 - For, that sad moment, when the sylphs withdrew^ And Ariel weeping from Belinda flew, Umbriel, a dusky, melancholy sprite, As ever sullied the fair face of light, Down to the central earth, his proper scene, Repair'd to search the gloomy cave of Spleen.
Pagina 247 - But what, or where, the fates have wrapt in night. Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw...
Pagina 171 - From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which without passing through the judgment gains The heart and all its end at once attains.
Pagina 241 - Now awful beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms, Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face : Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes.
Pagina 275 - The Lock, obtain'd with Guilt, and kept with Pain, In ev'ry place is sought, but sought in vain: With such a Prize no Mortal must be blest, So Heav'n decrees!
Pagina 207 - And while self-love each jealous writer 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, 520 Are mortals urged through sacred
Pagina 178 - Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind ; But, more...
Pagina 191 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes: Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...