 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...  The Works of Alexander Pope - Page 92by Alexander Pope - 1822Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Warton - 1824 - 534 pages
...tournaments, so celebrated in story, were a more natural and obvious allusion for an English poet'. This poem contains great strokes of Gothic imagination,...were more images Of gold stondinge in sundrie stages, Notef, from the Additions.] Watlyng-tlrete. B. ii. v. 431. He swears k L. i!. v. 838. [See infra Sect,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 416 pages
...heav'n ! to scorn the guilty bays; Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise; Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown ; Oh! grant an honest fame, or grant me none! " CHAUCER'S poem contains great strokes of Gothic imagination, yet bordering often on the most ideal... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 428 pages
...heav'n! to scorn the guilty bays; Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise; Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown ; Oh! grant an honest fame, or grant me none! " CHAUCER'S poem contains great strokes of Gothic imagination, yet bordering often on the most ideal... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 416 pages
...heav'n! to scorn the guilty bays; Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise; Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown; Oh! grant an honest fame, or grant me none! " CHAUCER'S poem contains great strokes of Gothic imagination, yet bordering often on the most ideal... | |
 | 1826 - 396 pages
...let me scorn the guilty bays, Drive from my breaet that wretched lust of praise— Unblemished let me live, or die unknown, Oh! grant an honest fame, or grant me none." v History is not only one of the most ancient, but one of the most useful of sciences: it is not only... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...! to scorn the guilty bays ¡ IJrive from my breast that wretched lust of praise : Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown ; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none !' JANUARY AND MAY; OR, THE MERCHANT'S TALE. PROM CHAUCER. TIIKRK lived in Lombardy, as authors write,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 506 pages
...Heaven ! to scorn the guilty bays ; Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise: Unblemish'd let x darkens, his espalien meet ; 80 * gloom the bloomy beds display ! f JANUARY AND MAY; OH, THE MERCHANT'S TALE. FROM CHAUCER. THERE lived in Lombardy, as authors write,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 328 pages
...Heaven ! to scorn the guilty bays, Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise; Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown : Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!" JANUARY AND MAY. FROM CHAUCER. l There liv'd in Lombardy, as authors write, In days of old, a wise... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...Heaven I to scorn the guilty bays ; Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise : Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown ; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none !' JANUARY AND MAY; OR, THE MERCHANTS TALE. FROM CHAUCER. THERE lived in Lombardy, as authors write,... | |
 | Forbes Winslow - 1839 - 398 pages
...Heaven ! to scorn the guilty bays, Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise; Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown, Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none." END OF VOL. I. tì 3 2044 036 331 379 ... | |
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