The Works of Alexander Pope: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... Virtues raise ; But candid , free , fincere , as you began , Proceed - a Minister , but still a Man . Be not ( exalted to whate'er degree ) Afham'd of any Friend , not ev'n of Me : The Patriot's plain , but untrod , path pursue ; If not ...
... Virtues raise ; But candid , free , fincere , as you began , Proceed - a Minister , but still a Man . Be not ( exalted to whate'er degree ) Afham'd of any Friend , not ev'n of Me : The Patriot's plain , but untrod , path pursue ; If not ...
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... Virtue only is our own . So unaffected , fo compos'd a mind ; So firm , yet foft ; fo ftrong , yet fo refin'd ; Heav'n , as its pureft gold , by Tortures try'd ; The Saint fuftain'd it , but the Woman dy'd . 6 VII . On VII . On the ...
... Virtue only is our own . So unaffected , fo compos'd a mind ; So firm , yet foft ; fo ftrong , yet fo refin'd ; Heav'n , as its pureft gold , by Tortures try'd ; The Saint fuftain'd it , but the Woman dy'd . 6 VII . On VII . On the ...
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... , Luxury , and Rage , Still leave fome ancient Virtues to our age . Nor let us fay ( thofe English glories gone ) The laft true Briton lies beneath this ftone . X. X. On Mr. ELIJAH FENTON . At Easthamstead in Berks 80 EPITAPH S.
... , Luxury , and Rage , Still leave fome ancient Virtues to our age . Nor let us fay ( thofe English glories gone ) The laft true Briton lies beneath this ftone . X. X. On Mr. ELIJAH FENTON . At Easthamstead in Berks 80 EPITAPH S.
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... and juft ; free from all prejudices of party , and all the projects of ambition ; in a word , the happiest compound of Science , Wisdom , and Virtue . * 12 marts + G3 XIV . XIV , On EDMUND D. of Buckingham , Who died EPITAPH S .. 85.
... and juft ; free from all prejudices of party , and all the projects of ambition ; in a word , the happiest compound of Science , Wisdom , and Virtue . * 12 marts + G3 XIV . XIV , On EDMUND D. of Buckingham , Who died EPITAPH S .. 85.
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... Virtue blooming round , Could fave a Parent's justest Pride from fate , Or add one Patriot to a sinking state ; This weeping marble had not ask'd thy Tear , Or fadly told , how many Hopes lie here ! The living Virtue now had fhone ...
... Virtue blooming round , Could fave a Parent's justest Pride from fate , Or add one Patriot to a sinking state ; This weeping marble had not ask'd thy Tear , Or fadly told , how many Hopes lie here ! The living Virtue now had fhone ...
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Page 290 - Homer makes us hearers, and Virgil leaves us readers. If in the next place we take a view of the sentiments, the same presiding faculty is eminent in the sublimity and spirit of his thoughts. Longinus has given his opinion, that it was in this part Homer principally excelled.
Page 81 - Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
Page 196 - Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy!
Page 280 - I know an eminent cook, who beautified his country seat with a coronation dinner in greens ; where you see the champion flourishing on horseback at one end of the table, and the queen in perpetual youth at the other.
Page 309 - ... to consider him attentively in comparison with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns.
Page 284 - If some things are too luxuriant it is owing to the richness of the soil; and if others are not arrived to perfection or maturity, it is only because they are overrun and oppressed by those of a stronger nature.
Page 327 - Prose from verse they did not know, and they accordingly printed one for the other throughout the volume.
Page 288 - Every one has something so singularly his own, that no painter could have distinguished them more by their features, than the poet has by their manners.
Page 289 - Idomeneus a plain, direct soldier ; in Sarpedon, a gallant and generous one. Nor is this judicious and...
Page 331 - I will conclude by saying of Shakespear, that with all his faults, and with all the irregularity of his drama, one may look upon his works, in comparison of those that are more...