The Age of Pope (1700-1744).G. Bell and sons, 1899 - 260 páginas |
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Página 71
... delighted . " Yet for the fame of all these deeds , What beggar in the Invalides , With lameness broke , with blindness smitten , Wished ever decently to die , To have been either Mezeray , Or any monarch he has written ? " It strange ...
... delighted . " Yet for the fame of all these deeds , What beggar in the Invalides , With lameness broke , with blindness smitten , Wished ever decently to die , To have been either Mezeray , Or any monarch he has written ? " It strange ...
Página 81
... delighted in moral treatises and in didactic verse . In the Night Thoughts Young remembers that he is a clergyman , and puts on his gown and bands . He puts on also his singing robes , and shows the reader what none of his earlier poems ...
... delighted in moral treatises and in didactic verse . In the Night Thoughts Young remembers that he is a clergyman , and puts on his gown and bands . He puts on also his singing robes , and shows the reader what none of his earlier poems ...
Página 113
... delight in natural objects are seen more pleasantly in Grongar Hill ( published in the same year as Thomson's Winter ) , a poem not without gram- matical inaccuracies , one of which deforms the first couplet , but full of poetical ...
... delight in natural objects are seen more pleasantly in Grongar Hill ( published in the same year as Thomson's Winter ) , a poem not without gram- matical inaccuracies , one of which deforms the first couplet , but full of poetical ...
Página 134
... delighted . ' In the year which gave birth to the Free- holder , The Drummer , a comedy , was acted at Drury Lane , and ran three nights . The play was not acknowledged by Addison , neither was it printed in Tickell's edition of his ...
... delighted . ' In the year which gave birth to the Free- holder , The Drummer , a comedy , was acted at Drury Lane , and ran three nights . The play was not acknowledged by Addison , neither was it printed in Tickell's edition of his ...
Página 145
... delight by stimulating the imagination , to give a new beauty to existence by widening the realm of thought , -these are some of the noblest purposes of literature ; and while men and women of creative genius are among our wisest ...
... delight by stimulating the imagination , to give a new beauty to existence by widening the realm of thought , -these are some of the noblest purposes of literature ; and while men and women of creative genius are among our wisest ...
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Pasajes populares
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.