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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... give his little Senate laws , And fit attentive to his own applause ; While Wits and Templars ev'ry sentence raise , And wonder with a foolish face of praife- Who but must laugh , if such a man there be ? Who would not weep , if ATTICUS ...
... give his little Senate laws , And fit attentive to his own applause ; While Wits and Templars ev'ry sentence raise , And wonder with a foolish face of praife- Who but must laugh , if such a man there be ? Who would not weep , if ATTICUS ...
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... half their bus'nefs blows to ward , or give ; The good their Virtue would effect , or Senfe , Dies between Exigents and Self - defence , MS . Can fleep without a Poem in my head , Nor VOL . II . C TO THE SATIRES . 17.
... half their bus'nefs blows to ward , or give ; The good their Virtue would effect , or Senfe , Dies between Exigents and Self - defence , MS . Can fleep without a Poem in my head , Nor VOL . II . C TO THE SATIRES . 17.
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... Give Virtue fcandal , Innocence a fear , Or from the foft - ey'd Virgin steal a téar ! But he who hurts a harmless neighbour's peace , Infults fall'n worth , or Beauty in distress , Who loves a Lye , lame flander helps about , Who ...
... Give Virtue fcandal , Innocence a fear , Or from the foft - ey'd Virgin steal a téar ! But he who hurts a harmless neighbour's peace , Infults fall'n worth , or Beauty in distress , Who loves a Lye , lame flander helps about , Who ...
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... we confider , that in this walk he had all the advantages which the most poetic Imagi- nation could give to a great Genius . M. Voltaire , in a MS . lettes That not for Fame , but Virtue's better end , C 3 TO THE SATIRES . 21.
... we confider , that in this walk he had all the advantages which the most poetic Imagi- nation could give to a great Genius . M. Voltaire , in a MS . lettes That not for Fame , but Virtue's better end , C 3 TO THE SATIRES . 21.
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... gives great spirit to the ridicule of the question . - Julian has a parallel ftroke , in his farcaftic difcourfe to the people of Anti- och , where he tells them a ftory out of Plutarch , concerning Cato ; who , when he came near their ...
... gives great spirit to the ridicule of the question . - Julian has a parallel ftroke , in his farcaftic difcourfe to the people of Anti- och , where he tells them a ftory out of Plutarch , concerning Cato ; who , when he came near their ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
aetas ALEXANDER POPE atque becauſe Befides beſt cafe cauſe Court Deûm Divine Dunciad eaſe Epiftle ev'n ev'ry expreffion faid fame fatire fhall fhew fibi fing firſt fome fool foul fpirit ftill fuch fuit fure Genius grace himſelf honour Horace imitation juft King Knave laft laſt laugh Laws leaſt lefs Lord ludicra Minifters moſt Mufe muft muſt neque nihil nunc o'er obferves occafion Original Paffions paſs perfon Pindar pleas'd pleaſe pleaſure Poet poft Pope Pow'r praiſe prefent profe Pythagorea quae quam Quarto quid quod racter reaſon rhyme ridicule rife rifu Sappho Satire SATIRE IV ſay ſenſe ſhall ſhould ſome ſpeaks ſtate ſtill ſuch tafte tamen thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thouſand thro tibi Truth uſe verfe verſe Virtue Whig whofe whoſe wife worfe writ write
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.