The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2J.F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... judgment and nature of Euripides and Sophocles . If the character of Medea was not better supported in the Tra- Ver . 2. The force of Protinus is lost in the translation . SAPPHO TO PHAON . SAY , lovely youth , that.
... judgment and nature of Euripides and Sophocles . If the character of Medea was not better supported in the Tra- Ver . 2. The force of Protinus is lost in the translation . SAPPHO TO PHAON . SAY , lovely youth , that.
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Alexander Pope Joseph Warton. SAPPHO TO PHAON . SAY , lovely youth , that dost my heart command , Can Phaon's eyes forget his Sappho's hand ? Must then her name the wretched writer prove , To thy remembrance lost , as to thy love ? Ask ...
Alexander Pope Joseph Warton. SAPPHO TO PHAON . SAY , lovely youth , that dost my heart command , Can Phaon's eyes forget his Sappho's hand ? Must then her name the wretched writer prove , To thy remembrance lost , as to thy love ? Ask ...
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... says Cervantes , can no more resemble the original than the wrong side of tapestry can represent the right . The inability of the French tongue to express many Greek or Roman ideas with facility and grace is here visible ; but the ...
... says Cervantes , can no more resemble the original than the wrong side of tapestry can represent the right . The inability of the French tongue to express many Greek or Roman ideas with facility and grace is here visible ; but the ...
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... says , that its situation and prospects by no means resemble Pope's beautiful and romantic description of it . Father St. Romain , the officiating Priest , walked with him round the whole demesne . The Abbess , who was in her eighty ...
... says , that its situation and prospects by no means resemble Pope's beautiful and romantic description of it . Father St. Romain , the officiating Priest , walked with him round the whole demesne . The Abbess , who was in her eighty ...
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... says that she was " facie non infima . ” Her extraordinary learning many circum- stances concur to confirm ; particularly one , which is , that the Nuns of the Paraclete are wont to have the office of Whitsunday read to them in Greek ...
... says that she was " facie non infima . ” Her extraordinary learning many circum- stances concur to confirm ; particularly one , which is , that the Nuns of the Paraclete are wont to have the office of Whitsunday read to them in Greek ...
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Page 354 - VIXIT TITULIS ET INVIDIA MAJOR ANNOS, HEU PAUCOS, XXXV. OB. FEB. XIV. MDCCXX. Statesman, yet Friend to Truth! of Soul sincere, In Action faithful, and in Honour clear! Who broke no Promise, serv'd no private End, Who gain'd no Title, and who lost no Friend, Ennobled by Himself, by All approv'd, Prais'd, wept, and honour'd, by the Muse he lov'd. THE
Page 35 - let the pealing organ blow In the full-voic'd quire below ; In service high and anthem clear, As may with sweetness through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heav'n before mine eyes.
Page 356 - to this fair Urn we trust. And sacred, place by DRYDEN'S awful dust: Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies, To which thy Tomb shall guide inquiring eyes. Peace to thy gentle shade, and endless rest! Blest in thy Genius, in thy Love too blest!
Page 351 - Vice had his hate and pity too. Blest Courtier! who could King and country please, Yet sacred keep his Friendships, and his Ease. Blest Peer! his great Forefathers ev'ry grace Reflecting, and reflected in his Race ; Where other BUCKHURSTS, other DORSETS shine, And Patriots still, or Poets, deck the line. NOTES.
Page 27 - heat? Yet, yet I love !—From Abelard it came, And Elo'isa yet must kiss the name. Dear fatal name ! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd; 10 Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixd with God's, his lov'd idea lies:
Page 92 - me live, or die unknown: Oh ! grant an honest fame, or grant me none ! " THIS poem contains great strokes of Gothic imagination, yet bordering often on the most ideal and capricious extravagance. The poet, in a vision, sees a temple of glass; ' In which were more images Of gold stondinge in sundrie stages,
Page 191 - Corinth's pleasing site surveys. Twas now the time when Phoebus yields to night, And rising Cynthia sheds her silver light, 475 Wide o'er the world in solemn pomp she drew, Her airy chariot hung with pearly dew ; All birds and beasts lie hush'd ; sleep steals away The wild desires of men, and toils of day,
Page 40 - more I hear, no more I view, 235 The phantom flies me, as unkind as you, I call aloud; it hears not what I say : I stretch my empty arms ; it glides away. To dream once more I close my willing eyes ; Ye soft illusions, dear deceits, arise ; 240 NOTES.
Page 17 - But when from hence he plung'd into the main, Deucalion scorn'd, and Pyrrha lov'd in vain. Haste, Sappho, haste, from high Leucadia throw Thy wretched weight, nor dread the deeps below !" She spoke, and vanish'd with the voice—I rise, And silent tears fall trickling from my eyes. 200 NOTES. Ver. 188. Leucadian
Page 281 - more genius and imagination; the one excelled in beauty, the other in energy. Michael Angelo has more of the poetical inspiration, his ideas are vast and sublime, his people are a superior order of beings; there is nothing about them, nothing in the air of their actions, or their attitudes, or the style and cast