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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Alexander Pope. What Drop or Noftrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me , a Fool's wrath or love ? A dire dilemma ! either way I'm fped . 30 If foes , they write , if friends , they read me dead . Seiz'd and ty'd down to judge ...
Alexander Pope. What Drop or Noftrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me , a Fool's wrath or love ? A dire dilemma ! either way I'm fped . 30 If foes , they write , if friends , they read me dead . Seiz'd and ty'd down to judge ...
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... must laugh , if such a man there be ? Who would not weep , if ATTICUS were he ! VARIATIONS . After VER . 28. in MS . Who , if two Wits on rival themes conteft , Approves of each , but likes the worft the beft . 205 210 Alluding to Mr. P ...
... must laugh , if such a man there be ? Who would not weep , if ATTICUS were he ! VARIATIONS . After VER . 28. in MS . Who , if two Wits on rival themes conteft , Approves of each , but likes the worft the beft . 205 210 Alluding to Mr. P ...
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... must at least betray : Who to the Dean , and filver bell can fwear , And fees at Cannons what was never there ; Who reads , but with a lust to misapply , Make Satire a Lampoon , and Fiction Lye . A lafh like mine no honeft man fhall ...
... must at least betray : Who to the Dean , and filver bell can fwear , And fees at Cannons what was never there ; Who reads , but with a lust to misapply , Make Satire a Lampoon , and Fiction Lye . A lafh like mine no honeft man fhall ...
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... fo likely to excite your curiofity . Why , truly , for this , you must confult Demophilas the Bithynian , whofe ecdotes turn chiefly upon subjects of this bigh importanee . Unlearn'd , he knew no schoolman's fubtile art , No 16 PROLOGUE '
... fo likely to excite your curiofity . Why , truly , for this , you must confult Demophilas the Bithynian , whofe ecdotes turn chiefly upon subjects of this bigh importanee . Unlearn'd , he knew no schoolman's fubtile art , No 16 PROLOGUE '
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... must I say ? Take then this verfe , the trifle of a day . And if it live , it lives but to commend The man whofe heart has ne'er forgot a friend , Or head , an Author : Critic , yet polite , 416 SATIRES AND EPISTLES O F HORACE IMITATED ...
... must I say ? Take then this verfe , the trifle of a day . And if it live , it lives but to commend The man whofe heart has ne'er forgot a friend , Or head , an Author : Critic , yet polite , 416 SATIRES AND EPISTLES O F HORACE IMITATED ...
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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.