The Age of PopeG. Bell, 1896 - 258 páginas |
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... death . I believe that no work of the class will be of real value which gives what may be called literary statistics , and has nothing more to offer . Historical facts and figures have their uses , and are , indeed , indispensable ; but ...
... death . I believe that no work of the class will be of real value which gives what may be called literary statistics , and has nothing more to offer . Historical facts and figures have their uses , and are , indeed , indispensable ; but ...
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John Dennis. 30 THE AGE OF POPE . INTRODUCTION . I. THE death of John Dryden , on the first of May , 1700 , closed a period of no small significance in the history of English literature . His faults were many , both as a man and as a ...
John Dennis. 30 THE AGE OF POPE . INTRODUCTION . I. THE death of John Dryden , on the first of May , 1700 , closed a period of no small significance in the history of English literature . His faults were many , both as a man and as a ...
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... death of Milton in 1674 , from the first half of the eighteenth century , is infinitely wider than that which divides us from the splendid band of poets and prose writers who made the first twenty years of the present century so famous ...
... death of Milton in 1674 , from the first half of the eighteenth century , is infinitely wider than that which divides us from the splendid band of poets and prose writers who made the first twenty years of the present century so famous ...
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... death who refused to plead on a capital charge ; and women were publicly flogged , and were also burnt at the stake by a law that was not repealed until 1794. Of the heads on Temple Bar , daily exposed to Johnson's eyes in his beloved ...
... death who refused to plead on a capital charge ; and women were publicly flogged , and were also burnt at the stake by a law that was not repealed until 1794. Of the heads on Temple Bar , daily exposed to Johnson's eyes in his beloved ...
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... the Marchioness of Win- chester , a lady whose death was also lamented by Milton . These we shall not quote , but take in preference a passage D which is perhaps as graceful an expression of poetical rhetoric ALEXANDER POPE . 33.
... the Marchioness of Win- chester , a lady whose death was also lamented by Milton . These we shall not quote , but take in preference a passage D which is perhaps as graceful an expression of poetical rhetoric ALEXANDER POPE . 33.
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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!