The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes, Volume 2Charles Whittingham, 1808 |
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... give and merit fame , And justly bear a critic's noble name , Be sure yourself and your own reach to know , How far your genius , taste , and learning , go ; Launch not beyond your depth , but be discreet , And mark that point where ...
... give and merit fame , And justly bear a critic's noble name , Be sure yourself and your own reach to know , How far your genius , taste , and learning , go ; Launch not beyond your depth , but be discreet , And mark that point where ...
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... gives in large recruits of needful pride : For as in bodies , thus in souls , we find What wants in blood and spirits , swell'd with wind : Pride , where wit fails , steps in to our defence , And fills up all the mighty void of sense ...
... gives in large recruits of needful pride : For as in bodies , thus in souls , we find What wants in blood and spirits , swell'd with wind : Pride , where wit fails , steps in to our defence , And fills up all the mighty void of sense ...
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... gives us back the image of our mind . As shades more sweetly recommend the light , So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit : For works may have more wit than does ' em good , As bodies perish through excess of blood . Others for ...
... gives us back the image of our mind . As shades more sweetly recommend the light , So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit : For works may have more wit than does ' em good , As bodies perish through excess of blood . Others for ...
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... gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense . Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows , And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore , The hoarse rough verse should like ...
... gives offence ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense . Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows , And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore , The hoarse rough verse should like ...
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... full perfection give , And each bold figure just begins to live , The treacherous colours the fair art betray , And all the bright.creation fades away ! Unhappy wit , like most mistaken things , Atones not 16 ESSAY ON CRITICISM .
... full perfection give , And each bold figure just begins to live , The treacherous colours the fair art betray , And all the bright.creation fades away ! Unhappy wit , like most mistaken things , Atones not 16 ESSAY ON CRITICISM .
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