The Works of Alexander Pope: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud Praife , and Friend to learned Ease , 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 temp'rate feaft ...
... from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud Praife , and Friend to learned Ease , 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 temp'rate feaft ...
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Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 189 - Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy!
Страница 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.
Страница 309 - ... to consider him attentively in comparison with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns.
Страница 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.
Страница 327 - Prose from verse they did not know, and they accordingly printed one for the other throughout the volume.
Страница 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.
Страница 289 - Idomeneus a plain, direct soldier ; in Sarpedon, a gallant and generous one. Nor is this judicious and...
Страница 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...