The Works of Alexander Pope, Količina 9J.F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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Stran 372 - passions, Gray has formed that exquisitely beautiful Prosopopoeia of Nature appearing to him in his infancy, and saying; " This pencil take, whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year; Thine too these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Stran 371 - herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies of her. Those of other Poets have a constant resemblance which shews that they received them from one another, and were but multipliers of the same image; each picture, like a mockrainbow, is but the reflection of a reflection.
Stran 169 - after Arnal, verse 300, add these: Next plung'da feeble, but a desp'rate pack, With each a sickly brother, at his back ; Sons of a day! just buoyant on the flood, Then number'd with the puppies in the mud. Ask ye their names? I could as soon disclose The names of those blind puppies, as of those. Fast by, like
Stran 91 - but gave it up to Walker. And indeed it had like to have miscarried and been damned, till Polly sung in a most tender and affecting manner, the words " For on the rope that hangs my dear Depends poor Polly's life.
Stran 372 - in human nature: of our noblest tendernesses, than of our vainest foibles; of our strongest emotions, than of our idlest sensations! Nor does he only excel in the Passions: in the coolness of Reflection and Reasoning he is full as admirable. His Sentiments are not only in general the most pertinent and judicious upon every subject
Stran 49 - although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years (but do not tell), and so I shall go on till I have done with them. I have got materials
Stran 173 - night-gown, it is clear from Homer, that Agamemnon rose without one. I have often had it in my head to put it into yours, that you ought to have some great work in scheme, which may take up seven years to finish, besides two or three under-ones, that may add another thousand
Stran 102 - mutton-broth, beans and bacon, and a barn-door fowl. Now his Lordship is run after his Cart, I have a moment left to myself to tell you, that I overheard him yesterday agree with a Painter for 2001. to paint his country-hall with Trophies of rakes, spades, prongs, &c, and other
Stran 200 - custody. His sisters, we suppose, will be his heirs, who are two widows; as yet it is not known whether or no he left a will. Good God ! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose
Stran 69 - Perhaps I may all this time be talking to you of a Book you have never seen, and which hath not yet reached Ireland; if it hath not, I believe what we have said will be sufficient "to recommend it to your reading, and that you will order me to send it to you.