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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... fall'n worth , or Beauty in distress , Who loves a Lye , lame flander helps about , Who writes a Libel , or who copies out : That Fop , whofe pride affects a patron's name , Yet abfent , wounds an author's honest fame : Who can your ...
... fall'n worth , or Beauty in distress , Who loves a Lye , lame flander helps about , Who writes a Libel , or who copies out : That Fop , whofe pride affects a patron's name , Yet abfent , wounds an author's honest fame : Who can your ...
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... fall into , and Knaves with good reason to encourage , the mistak- ing a Satirift for a Libeller ; whereas to a true Sati- rift nothing is fo odious as a Libeller , for the fame reafon as to a man truly virtuous nothing is fo hate- ful ...
... fall into , and Knaves with good reason to encourage , the mistak- ing a Satirift for a Libeller ; whereas to a true Sati- rift nothing is fo odious as a Libeller , for the fame reafon as to a man truly virtuous nothing is fo hate- ful ...
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... falls fhort of it . VER . 23. What ? like Sir Richard , & c . ] Mr. Molyneux , a great Mathematician and Philofopher , had a high opinion of Sir Richard Blackmore's poetic vein . All our English poets , ex- cept Milton ( fays he , in a ...
... falls fhort of it . VER . 23. What ? like Sir Richard , & c . ] Mr. Molyneux , a great Mathematician and Philofopher , had a high opinion of Sir Richard Blackmore's poetic vein . All our English poets , ex- cept Milton ( fays he , in a ...
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... falling Horfe ? k F. Then all your Mufe's fofter art difplay , Let CAROLINA Smooth the tuneful lay , 30 ballad - makers in comparison of bim . And Mr. Locke , in anfwer to this obfervation , replies , I find , with pleasure , a firange ...
... falling Horfe ? k F. Then all your Mufe's fofter art difplay , Let CAROLINA Smooth the tuneful lay , 30 ballad - makers in comparison of bim . And Mr. Locke , in anfwer to this obfervation , replies , I find , with pleasure , a firange ...
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... fall into the other : Between Excefs and Famine lies a mean ; Plain , but not fordid ; tho ' not fplendid , clean . Avidien , or his Wife ( no matter which , t For him you'll call a dog , and her a bitch ) 50 VER . 50. For him you'll ...
... fall into the other : Between Excefs and Famine lies a mean ; Plain , but not fordid ; tho ' not fplendid , clean . Avidien , or his Wife ( no matter which , t For him you'll call a dog , and her a bitch ) 50 VER . 50. For him you'll ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
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.