The Age of PopeG. Bell, 1896 - 258 páginas |
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... famous . There is , for example , scarcely more than fifty years between the publication of Herrick's Hesperides and of Addison's Campaign , between the Holy Living of Taylor and the Tatler of Steele , and less than fifty years between ...
... famous . There is , for example , scarcely more than fifty years between the publication of Herrick's Hesperides and of Addison's Campaign , between the Holy Living of Taylor and the Tatler of Steele , and less than fifty years between ...
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... famous French critic's merit , observes , that while Pope is the finest , Boileau is the dullest craftsman of their age and school.'1 6 6 With the author of the Lutrin Addison , unlike Pope , was " 1 M. Sainte - Beuve , the greatest of ...
... famous French critic's merit , observes , that while Pope is the finest , Boileau is the dullest craftsman of their age and school.'1 6 6 With the author of the Lutrin Addison , unlike Pope , was " 1 M. Sainte - Beuve , the greatest of ...
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... famous passages illustrative of Pope's art might be extracted from this poem , but it will suffice to give the portrait of Belinda : ' On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore , Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore ; Her ...
... famous passages illustrative of Pope's art might be extracted from this poem , but it will suffice to give the portrait of Belinda : ' On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore , Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore ; Her ...
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... famous for his Greek and his potations , and whether drunk or sober he would recite , or rather sing it , from the beginning to the end . The felicity of the versification is incontestable , but at the same time artifice is more visible ...
... famous for his Greek and his potations , and whether drunk or sober he would recite , or rather sing it , from the beginning to the end . The felicity of the versification is incontestable , but at the same time artifice is more visible ...
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... famous wits , and Pope , whose irritable temperament led him into many quarrels and created a host of enemies , ceased from this time to regard Addison as a friend . Probably neither of them can be exempted from blame , and we can well ...
... famous wits , and Pope , whose irritable temperament led him into many quarrels and created a host of enemies , ceased from this time to regard Addison as a friend . Probably neither of them can be exempted from blame , and we can well ...
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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!