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 頁 |
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... human mind requires diversity to preferve the edge of attention , fo , to him , no kind of relaxation could have been more agreeable : and in his choice , he is juftified by the authority of the great Lord Coke --- After making certain ...
... human mind requires diversity to preferve the edge of attention , fo , to him , no kind of relaxation could have been more agreeable : and in his choice , he is juftified by the authority of the great Lord Coke --- After making certain ...
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... human nature , and therefore recommended the study of history . " I fhould read , faid he , in a very different manner now than when I had my early fit of reading , from 14 to 20. Then it was merely from the amusement the ftory afforded ...
... human nature , and therefore recommended the study of history . " I fhould read , faid he , in a very different manner now than when I had my early fit of reading , from 14 to 20. Then it was merely from the amusement the ftory afforded ...
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... human appetites , will allow that things in general eftimation , are not always valued because they are in themselves exquifite , but because they are fcarce and rare . If they are common , they in fome degree lofe their value , and ...
... human appetites , will allow that things in general eftimation , are not always valued because they are in themselves exquifite , but because they are fcarce and rare . If they are common , they in fome degree lofe their value , and ...
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... human faculties , fomewhat more critically ; as it will be of use hereafter , in the attempt to afcertain the nature and extent of our author's genius . It has been faid that " judgment , when it goes " alone , is generally regulated ...
... human faculties , fomewhat more critically ; as it will be of use hereafter , in the attempt to afcertain the nature and extent of our author's genius . It has been faid that " judgment , when it goes " alone , is generally regulated ...
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... never feen a picture , behold two portraits of the human figure , daubed upon a fign , of which the one was ma- nifeftly a better imitation of nature than the other , other , he would not fail to be delighted with 70 THE LIFE OF.
... never feen a picture , behold two portraits of the human figure , daubed upon a fign , of which the one was ma- nifeftly a better imitation of nature than the other , other , he would not fail to be delighted with 70 THE LIFE OF.
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第 265 頁 - 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...
第 231 頁 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!
第 123 頁 - 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!
第 231 頁 - The proper study of mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err...
第 192 頁 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
第 124 頁 - Who would not scorn what Housewife's Cares produce, Or who would learn one earthly Thing of Use ? To patch, nay ogle, might become a Saint, Nor could it sure be such a Sin to paint. But since, alas ! frail Beauty must decay...
第 163 頁 - Come, Abelard ! for what hast thou to dread ? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature stands check'd ; Religion disapproves ; Ev'n thou art cold — yet Eloisa loves. 260 Ah hopeless, lasting flames ! like those that burn To light the dead, and warm th
第 381 頁 - But chief her shrine where naked Venus keeps, And Cupids ride the Lion of the Deeps; Where, eas'd of Fleets, the Adriatic main Wafts the smooth Eunuch and enamour'd swain.
第 80 頁 - She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For, as in bodies, thus in souls we find, What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
第 239 頁 - Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod; The state of Nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man.