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The Prelude (1850) [ Concepts ]
… and now on that, Repeated through his tributary vales, Helvellyn, in the silence of his rest, Sees annually, if clouds towards either ocean Blown from their favourite resting-place, or mists Dissolved, have left him an unshrouded head. … or a blind, the one to beg, The other to make music; hither, too, From far, with basket, slung upon her arm, Of hawker's wares—books, pictures, combs, and pins— Some aged woman finds her way again, Year after year, a punctual visitant! There … lass of the valley, looking out For gains, and who that sees her would not buy? Fruits of her father's orchard, are her wares, And with the ruddy produce, she walks round Among the crowd, half pleased with half ashamed Of her new office, …
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The Chimney Sweeper (1795) [ Practices ]
… awoke; and we rose in the dark And got with our bags & our brushes to work. Though the morning was cold, Tom was happy & warm; So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm. … "As Tom was a-sleeping he had such a sight! That thousands of …
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The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated (1733) [ Concepts ]
… can keep [125] Rolls o'er my Grotto, and but sooths my sleep. There, my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and Statesmen out of place. There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl, The Feast of Reason and the Flow of soul: … eyes that pry not, tongue that ne'er repeats, Fond to spread friendships, but to cover heats, To help who want, to forward who excel; This, all who know me, know; who love me, tell; [140] And who unknown defame me, let them be Scriblers or … my plea, on this I rest my cause -- What saith my Council learned in the laws? F. Your Plea is good; but still, I say, beware! [145] Laws are explain'd by Men -- so have a care. It stands on record, that in Richard's times A man was hang'd …
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Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]
… ridicule of contemporary mores (1712’s The Rape of the Lock and his various editions of The Dunciad from 1728 onwards); and philosophical treatises in verse (his Essay on Man of 1733-4 perhaps being the most notable of these). … with this moment in British literary history. The formal symmetry and self-containment of Pope’s couplets belie his awkward social position. In addition to the disadvantages of his Catholicism, he also lived with severe disability from the age of twelve onwards, his growth stunted and his back hunched following a bout of what is now known as Pott’s Disease. If his literary …
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