The Age of PopeG. Bell, 1896 - 258 páginas |
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... thought , and a grasp of language in the prose of Hooker , of Jeremy Taylor , and of Milton which is beyond the reach of Dryden , but he has the merit of using a simple form of English free from prolonged periods and classical ...
... thought , and a grasp of language in the prose of Hooker , of Jeremy Taylor , and of Milton which is beyond the reach of Dryden , but he has the merit of using a simple form of English free from prolonged periods and classical ...
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... thought there has not been sufficient pains in finding out proper employments and diversions for the fair ones . Their amusements seem contrived for them , rather as they are women , than as they are reasonable creatures ; and are more ...
... thought there has not been sufficient pains in finding out proper employments and diversions for the fair ones . Their amusements seem contrived for them , rather as they are women , than as they are reasonable creatures ; and are more ...
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... thoughts of a great poet is to destroy much of the beauty of his verse and many of its most striking characteristics . As well might he say that the beauty of a lovely woman can be enhanced by a pro- fusion of trinkets , or that a Greek ...
... thoughts of a great poet is to destroy much of the beauty of his verse and many of its most striking characteristics . As well might he say that the beauty of a lovely woman can be enhanced by a pro- fusion of trinkets , or that a Greek ...
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... thought himself a gentleman , had no excuse for abusing her . Excuses indeed are not easily to be offered for Pope's moral defal- cations . His life was a series of petty intrigues , trickeries , and deceptions . He could not , it has ...
... thought himself a gentleman , had no excuse for abusing her . Excuses indeed are not easily to be offered for Pope's moral defal- cations . His life was a series of petty intrigues , trickeries , and deceptions . He could not , it has ...
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... thought , And always thinks the very thing he ought , ' 1 Quin ( 1693-1766 ) was the famous actor , and Patterson was Thomson's deputy in the surveyor - generalship of the Leeward Isles , and ultimately his successor . 2 The Earl of ...
... thought , And always thinks the very thing he ought , ' 1 Quin ( 1693-1766 ) was the famous actor , and Patterson was Thomson's deputy in the surveyor - generalship of the Leeward Isles , and ultimately his successor . 2 The Earl of ...
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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!