The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Compiled from Original Manuscripts; with a Critical Essay on His Writings and GeniusC. Bathurst, H. Woodfall, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, W. Johnston, B. White, T. Caslon, T. Longman, B. Law, Johnson and Payne, S. Bladon, T. Cadell, and the executors of A. Millar., 1769 - 578 pages |
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८८ AARON HILL Addiſon addreſſed admirable anſwer beautiful becauſe beſt cauſe character compofition critic defire deſcribed deſcription deſign diſplayed Dulneſs Dunciad eaſe eaſy Effay epiſtle eſſay eſteemed ev'ry excellent expoſed expreſſed faid falſe fame fatire feem fince fincere firſt fome friendſhip fublime fuch fuperior genius himſelf honour Iliad illuſtrates imagination inſtance intereſt itſelf judgment juſt laſt learned leaſt leſs letter likewife Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lordſhip merit mind moral moſt muſt nature never numbers obſerved occafion paffion paſſage perſon piece pleaſed pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry POPE POPE's preſent preſerved propoſed publiſhed purpoſe raiſe reaſon reſpect reſt ridicule ſame ſays ſcene ſecond ſeems ſenſe ſenſibility ſentiments ſerve ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhew ſhort ſhould ſkill ſome ſpeaking ſpecies ſpirit ſtand ſtate ſtill ſtriking ſtrong ſtudy ſubject ſuch ſuppoſed ſyſtem taſte theſe lines thoſe thought tion tranflation true uſe verſe virtue whoſe writings
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Page 256 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
Page 192 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 123 - In some lone isle, or distant northern land; Where the gilt chariot never marks the way, Where none learn ombre, none e'er taste bohea!
Page 265 - Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge Thy foe. If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way...
Page 301 - Consult the Genius of the Place in all; That tells the Waters or to rise, or fall; Or helps th...
Page 152 - Oh! happy state! when souls each other draw, When love is liberty, and nature law...
Page 192 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Page 301 - Or helps th' ambitious Hill the heav'ns to scale, Or scoops in circling theatres the Vale; Calls in the Country, catches op'ning glades, Joins willing Woods, and varies shades from shades; Now breaks, or now directs, th' intending Lines; Paints as you plant, and, as you work, designs.
Page 357 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Page 264 - What conscience dictates to be done. Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heaven pursue.