The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Juvenile poems

Alexander Pope

J. and P. Knapton, 1752

內容

• The Multitude of Critics and causes of them 26 to: 45
• A Difcourfe on Paftoral Poetry: 57
• That we are to ftudy our own Tafte and know the: 67
• AUTUMN the third Paftoral: 71
• MESSIAH a Sacred Eclogue in Imitation: 79
• Nature the best guide of Judgment 68 to: 87
• Rules derivd from the Practice of the Ancient Poets: 110
• Ode on St Cecilias: 132
• That therefore the Ancients are neceffary to be studyd: 138
• The Dying Chriftian to his Soul an: 179
• The Rape of the Lock: 213
• Elegy to the Memory of an unfortunate Lady: 223
• 119: 236
• 132: 254
• 139: 267

熱門章節

第 88 頁 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.

第 190 頁 - Soon as she spreads her hand, th' aerial guard Descend, and sit on each important card : First Ariel perch'd upon a Matadore, Then each according to the rank they bore ; For Sylphs, yet mindful of their ancient race, 35 Are, as when women, wond'rous fond of place.

第 90 頁 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?

第 208 頁 - Some thought it mounted to the lunar sphere, Since all things lost on earth are treasur'd there. There heroes' wits are kept in pond'rous vases, And beaux in snuff-boxes and tweezer-cases. There broken vows and death-bed alms are found, And lovers...

第 207 頁 - Nor fear'd the chief th' unequal fight to try, Who sought no more than on his foe to die. But this bold lord with manly strength...

第 182 頁 - But chiefly Love — to Love an altar built, Of twelve vast French romances, neatly gilt. There lay three garters, half a pair of gloves ; And all the trophies of his former loves ; 40 With tender billet-doux he lights the pyre, And breathes three amorous sighs to raise the fire.

第 136 頁 - Jove Now burns with glory, and then melts with love; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found.

第 213 頁 - How lov'd , how honour'd once , avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!

第 58 頁 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day ! No more the rising Sun shall gild the morn, Nor...

第 126 頁 - The manners, passions, unities ; what not ? All which, exact to rule, were brought about, Were but a Combat in the lists left out. "What!" leave the Combat out?" exclaims the Knight; Yes, or we must renounce the Stagirite. 280 "Not so by Heav'n" (he answers in a rage), "Knights, squires, and steeds, must enter on the stage." So vast a throng the stage can ne'er contain. "Then build a new, or act it in a plain.

書目資訊

• 書名: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Juvenile poems; The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death第 1 卷, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester)
• 作者: Alexander Pope
• 出版者: J. and P. Knapton, 1752
• 來源：: 紐約市立圖書館
• 已數位化: 2005年10月22日