The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson, Volumen31812 |
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... taste the honey , and not wound the flow'r : Pleasure , or wrong or rightly understood , 90 Our greatest evil , or our greatest good . III . Modes of self - love the passions we may call : ' Tis real good , or seeming , moves them all ...
... taste the honey , and not wound the flow'r : Pleasure , or wrong or rightly understood , 90 Our greatest evil , or our greatest good . III . Modes of self - love the passions we may call : ' Tis real good , or seeming , moves them all ...
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... taste them , as they worse obtain . Say , in pursuit of profit or delight , 85 Who risk the most , that take wrong means , or right ? Of vice or virtue , whether blest or curst , Which meets contempt , or which compassion first ? Count ...
... taste them , as they worse obtain . Say , in pursuit of profit or delight , 85 Who risk the most , that take wrong means , or right ? Of vice or virtue , whether blest or curst , Which meets contempt , or which compassion first ? Count ...
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Alexander Pope. The only point where human bliss stands still , And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only ... taste , but thinks can know : Yet poor with fortune , and with learning blind ,, The bad must miss ; the good ...
Alexander Pope. The only point where human bliss stands still , And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only ... taste , but thinks can know : Yet poor with fortune , and with learning blind ,, The bad must miss ; the good ...
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... Taste , Critiqu'd your wine , and analyz'd your meat , Yet on plain pudding deign'd at home to eat : So Philomedé , lect'ring all mankind , On the soft passion , and the taste refin❜d , 8Q Th ' address , the delicacy - stoops at once ...
... Taste , Critiqu'd your wine , and analyz'd your meat , Yet on plain pudding deign'd at home to eat : So Philomedé , lect'ring all mankind , On the soft passion , and the taste refin❜d , 8Q Th ' address , the delicacy - stoops at once ...
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... taste of follies , with our scorn of fools : Reserve with frankness , art with truth ally'd , Courage with softness , modesty with pride ; Fix'd principles , with fancy ever new ; Shakes all together , and produces - You . 280 Be this a ...
... taste of follies , with our scorn of fools : Reserve with frankness , art with truth ally'd , Courage with softness , modesty with pride ; Fix'd principles , with fancy ever new ; Shakes all together , and produces - You . 280 Be this a ...
Términos y frases comunes
Balaam Bishop Bishop of Marseilles blessing blest bliss Cæsar charms Chartres court death divine Duke Dunciad e'er Earl ears ease EPISTLE Ev'n ev'ry eyes fame fate folly fool former editions give glory gold grace grave happiness hate heart Heav'n honest honour Horace int'rest king knave lady laugh learn'd learned less than angels live Lord Lord Bathurst Lord Bolingbroke Lord Chamberlain Lord Hervey lov'd mankind mighty mind moral muse nature nature's ne'er never numbers o'er parterre passion pleas'd pleasure poet poor Pope pow'r praise pride proud Queen reason rhyme rich rise rules Sappho satire SATIRE IV scarce Self-love sense slave soul Stephen Duck taste tell thee things thou thousand thro truth Twas verse vice virtue wealth whate'er Whig whole whore wife wise wretched write
Pasajes populares
Página 13 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die...
Página 18 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Página 18 - Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Página 16 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : Or who could suffer Being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Página 17 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Página 244 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
Página 131 - Or in proud falls magnificently lost, But clear and artless, pouring through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows? Whose seats the weary traveller repose ? Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise ?
Página 24 - Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Página 164 - twas when he knew no better. Dare you refuse him? Curll invites to dine, He'll write a. Journal, or he'll turn divine.' Bless me ! a packet - ' 'Tis a stranger sues, A Virgin Tragedy, an Orphan Muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage!' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Página 67 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.