The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements; together with all his notes: pr. verbatim from the octavo ed. of mr. Warburton, Band 41754 |
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... still his lord , and whore ? His butchers Henley , his free - mafons Moor ? Does not one table Bavius still admit ? Still to one Bishop Philips feems a wit ? 95 ICO Still Sappho A. Hold ; for God - fake - you'll offend , No names be ...
... still his lord , and whore ? His butchers Henley , his free - mafons Moor ? Does not one table Bavius still admit ? Still to one Bishop Philips feems a wit ? 95 ICO Still Sappho A. Hold ; for God - fake - you'll offend , No names be ...
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... still wanting , tho ' he lives on theft , Steals much , fpends little , yet has nothing left : 184 .VER . 169. Pretty in amber , & c . ] The wit and imagʼry of this paffage has been much and juftly admired . The most detestable things ...
... still wanting , tho ' he lives on theft , Steals much , fpends little , yet has nothing left : 184 .VER . 169. Pretty in amber , & c . ] The wit and imagʼry of this paffage has been much and juftly admired . The most detestable things ...
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... still ) he paid in kind . Dryden alone ( what wonder ? ) came not nigh , Dryden alone efcap'd this judging eye : But ftill the Great have kindness in reserve , He help'd to bury whom he help'd to ftarve . 245 VARIATIONS , After VIR ...
... still ) he paid in kind . Dryden alone ( what wonder ? ) came not nigh , Dryden alone efcap'd this judging eye : But ftill the Great have kindness in reserve , He help'd to bury whom he help'd to ftarve . 245 VARIATIONS , After VIR ...
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... still ! 250 So when a Statesman wants a day's defence , Or Envy holds a whole week's war with Sense , Or fimple pride for flatt'ry makes demands , May dunce by dunce be whistled off my hands ! Bleft be the Great ! for those they take ...
... still ! 250 So when a Statesman wants a day's defence , Or Envy holds a whole week's war with Sense , Or fimple pride for flatt'ry makes demands , May dunce by dunce be whistled off my hands ! Bleft be the Great ! for those they take ...
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... still , Than ridicule all Tafte , blafpheme Quadrille , Abufe the City's best good men in metre , And laugh at Peers that put trust in Peter . n Ev'n thofe touch not , you hate you . 35 40 P. What should ail them ? F. A hundred fmart in ...
... still , Than ridicule all Tafte , blafpheme Quadrille , Abufe the City's best good men in metre , And laugh at Peers that put trust in Peter . n Ev'n thofe touch not , you hate you . 35 40 P. What should ail them ? F. A hundred fmart in ...
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Seite 49 - Hear this, and tremble! you, who 'scape the Laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave ^/ Shall walk the World, in credit, to his grave.
Seite 27 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Seite 12 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Seite 14 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Seite 4 - They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Seite 13 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Seite 167 - Bright through the rubbish of some hundred years ; Command old words, that long have slept, to wake, Words that wise Bacon or...
Seite 6 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage!' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Seite 20 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence...
Seite 41 - My head and heart thus flowing thro' my quill, Verse-man or prose-man, term me which you will, Papist or Protestant, or both between, Like good Erasmus in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory.