 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 - 1840 - 584 pages
...tournaments, so celebrated in story, were a more natural and obvious allusion for an English poet 1 . This poem contains great strokes of Gothic imagination,...were more images Of gold stondinge in sundrie stages, ' In his book De Causa Dei, published by Sir Henry Savile, 1617. Hetuucheson this controversy, Nome's... | |
 | Forbes Winslow - 1842 - 864 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. PHYSIC AND PHYSICIANS. CHAPTER I. CHRONICLES OF WARWICK HALL; OR, MEDICAL AND SURGICAL... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 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 ! " CHADCEK'S poem contains great strokes of Gothic imagination, yet bordering often on the most ideal... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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 ! While thus I stood z , intent to see and hear, One came, methought, and whisper'd in my ear : What... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...Heaven ! to scorn the guilty baya ; 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; on, THE MERCHANTS TALE. FROM CHAUCER. THERE lived in Lombardy, as authors write,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1851 - 332 pages
...Heaven ! to scorn the guilty bays, Drive from my Ireast 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 - 1851 - 628 pages
...to scorn the guilty hays Drive from my hreast that wretched lust of praise Unhlemish'd let me Jive, or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none !' JANUARY AND MAY; oR, THE MERCHANT'S TALE. FRoM CHA7CSR. Of gentle manners, as of generous race,... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 62 pages
...Heaven ! to scorn the guilty Lays, 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 ! " Or better still might it be, if we could rise with Milton, to a strain of higher mood, and realize... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 330 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!" ST. CECILIA. ODE ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY, MDCCVIII. AND OTHEK PIECES FOR MUSIC. TJESCEND, ye Nine! descend... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 332 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. 1 THERE liv'd in Lombardy, as authors write, In days of old, a wise... | |
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