The Age of PopeG. Bell, 1896 - 258 páginas |
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... argument in rhyme , which had led Roscommon to write an Essay on Translated Verse , and Sheffield an Essay on Poetry . The Essay on Criticism is a marvellous production for a young man who had scarcely passed his maturity when it was ...
... argument in rhyme , which had led Roscommon to write an Essay on Translated Verse , and Sheffield an Essay on Poetry . The Essay on Criticism is a marvellous production for a young man who had scarcely passed his maturity when it was ...
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... argument on the origin of evil , on the goodness of God , and the constitution of the world was rife . Into the prevailing topic of polite conversation Bolingbroke , who returned from exile in 1723 , was drawn by the bent of his native ...
... argument on the origin of evil , on the goodness of God , and the constitution of the world was rife . Into the prevailing topic of polite conversation Bolingbroke , who returned from exile in 1723 , was drawn by the bent of his native ...
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... argument does Pope seem to have a firm standing , and De Quincey is not far wrong in saying that it is the realization of anarchy . ' • Read the poem for its poetical merits and you will forget / its defects . Pope was a superficial ...
... argument does Pope seem to have a firm standing , and De Quincey is not far wrong in saying that it is the realization of anarchy . ' • Read the poem for its poetical merits and you will forget / its defects . Pope was a superficial ...
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... arguments convincing , until a great poet arises and knocks them on the head . In a sense every poet of the highest order ... argument of the Essay . ' Anything like sustained reasoning , ' says Mr. Leslie Stephen , was beyond his reach ...
... arguments convincing , until a great poet arises and knocks them on the head . In a sense every poet of the highest order ... argument of the Essay . ' Anything like sustained reasoning , ' says Mr. Leslie Stephen , was beyond his reach ...
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... argument of a poem than for its poetry . The thought and purpose of the Essay are defective , notwithstanding Warburton's effort to clear them , but these defects are of slight moment when compared with the brilliant passages with which ...
... argument of a poem than for its poetry . The thought and purpose of the Essay are defective , notwithstanding Warburton's effort to clear them , but these defects are of slight moment when compared with the brilliant passages with which ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 110 - I hear a voice, you cannot hear, Which says, I must not stay ; I see a hand, you cannot see, Which beckons me away.
Página 89 - The impetuous song, and say from whom you rage. His praise, ye brooks, attune, ye trembling rills ; And let me catch it, as I muse along. Ye headlong torrents, rapid, and profound; Ye softer floods, that lead the humid maze Along the vale ; and thou, majestic main, A secret world of wonders in thyself, Sound His stupendous praise ; whose greater voice Or bids you roar, or bids your roarings fall. Soft roll your incense, herbs, and fruits, and flowers, In mingled clouds to Him ; whose sun exalts,...
Página 45 - There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...
Página 82 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man ! How passing wonder He who made him such ! Who centered in our make such strange extremes.
Página 220 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Página 117 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome — at an inn.
Página 148 - She was a very beautiful woman, of a noble spirit, and there was a dignity in her grief amidst all the wildness of her transport which, methought, struck me with an instinct of sorrow, that, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since.
Página 32 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride...
Página 82 - An heir of glory! a frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! insect infinite! A worm! — a god! — I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost!
Página 82 - A worm ! a god ! I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost. At home a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast. And wondering at her own. How reason reels . O, what a miracle to man is man ! Triumphantly distressed!