The Age of Pope (1700-1744).G. Bell and sons, 1899 - 260 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 say that most striking characteristics . As well might he 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 say that most striking characteristics . As well might he 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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Página 99 - 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 92 - 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 26 - Ixion fixed, the wretch shall feel The giddy motion of the whirling mill, In fumes of burning chocolate shall glow, And tremble at the sea that froths below!
Página 128 - 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 196 - 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 66 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man...
Página 73 - As home he goes beneath the joyous moon. Ye that keep watch in heaven, as earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, Ye constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre. Great source of day! best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam His praise.
Página 26 - 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 224 - Comes slowly grazing through the adjoining meads, Whose stealing pace and lengthened shade we fear, Till torn-up forage in his teeth we hear; When nibbling sheep at large pursue their food, And unmolested kine rechew the cud; When curlews cry beneath the village walls, And to her straggling brood the partridge calls...
Página 98 - Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which he did with such judgment and such fancy, as made his little domain the envy of the great, and the admiration of the .skilful ; a place to be visited by travellers, and copied by designers.