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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admirable affected againſt appears beautiful beſt character common concerning critic death deſcribed deſcription epiſtle equal excellent expreſſed eyes fame firſt friendſhip genius give grace hand heart himſelf honour human idea images imagination inſtance judgment juſt kind laſt learned leſs letter light likewiſe lines live Lord manner means merit mind moral moſt muſt nature never noble objects obſerved occaſion once original particular paſſage paſſion perhaps perſon piece pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's preſent publiſhed reader reaſon received remarks reſpect ridicule ſaid ſame ſatire ſays ſee ſeems ſenſe ſentiments ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhew ſhould ſome ſpeaking ſpirit ſtill ſubject ſuch taken taſte tell theſe thing thoſe thought tion tranſlation true truth turn uſe verſe virtue whole whoſe writings
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第 256 頁 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
第 192 頁 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
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 265 頁 - 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...
第 301 頁 - Consult the Genius of the Place in all; That tells the Waters or to rise, or fall; Or helps th...
第 152 頁 - Oh! happy state! when souls each other draw, When love is liberty, and nature law...
第 192 頁 - 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...
第 301 頁 - 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.
第 357 頁 - 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!
第 264 頁 - 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.