The Works of Alexander Pope, Band 4J.F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... Jonas inconnu seche dans la poussiere , Le David imprimé n'a point veu la lumiere , Le Moise commence à moisir par les bords . Quel mal cela fait - il ? Ceux qui sont morts sont morts . Fire in each eye , and papers in each hand 8 PROLOGUE.
... Jonas inconnu seche dans la poussiere , Le David imprimé n'a point veu la lumiere , Le Moise commence à moisir par les bords . Quel mal cela fait - il ? Ceux qui sont morts sont morts . Fire in each eye , and papers in each hand 8 PROLOGUE.
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Alexander Pope Joseph Warton. Fire in each eye , and papers in each hand , 5 They rave , recite , and madden , round the land . What walls can guard me , or what shades can hide ? They pierce my Thickets , through my Grot they glide , By ...
Alexander Pope Joseph Warton. Fire in each eye , and papers in each hand , 5 They rave , recite , and madden , round the land . What walls can guard me , or what shades can hide ? They pierce my Thickets , through my Grot they glide , By ...
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... eyes of the minister , instead of the barber , first discover the ass's ears ; and the word perks has particular force and emphasis . Sir Ro- bert Walpole and Queen Caroline were here pointed at . Boi- leau wrote his ninth Satire first ...
... eyes of the minister , instead of the barber , first discover the ass's ears ; and the word perks has particular force and emphasis . Sir Ro- bert Walpole and Queen Caroline were here pointed at . Boi- leau wrote his ninth Satire first ...
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... eye - brow , or Parnassian sneer ? And has not Colley still his lord and whore ? His butchers Henley , his free - masons Moore ? Does not one table Bavius still admit ; Still to one Bishop Philips seem a wit ? 95 100 Still Sappho - A ...
... eye - brow , or Parnassian sneer ? And has not Colley still his lord and whore ? His butchers Henley , his free - masons Moore ? Does not one table Bavius still admit ; Still to one Bishop Philips seem a wit ? 95 100 Still Sappho - A ...
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... Eye . " - Go on , obliging creatures , make me see , All that disgrac'd my Betters , met in me . " Say for my comfort , languishing in bed , Just so immortal Mero held his head : " And when I die , be sure you let me know Great Homer ...
... Eye . " - Go on , obliging creatures , make me see , All that disgrac'd my Betters , met in me . " Say for my comfort , languishing in bed , Just so immortal Mero held his head : " And when I die , be sure you let me know Great Homer ...
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Seite 13 - twas when he knew no better. Dare you refuse him? Curll invites to dine, He'll write a. Journal, or he'll turn divine.' Bless me ! a packet - ' 'Tis a stranger sues, A Virgin Tragedy, an Orphan Muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage!' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Seite 32 - Peace to all such ! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, 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 32 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Seite 408 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.
Seite 337 - Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year, most part, deform'd With dripping rains, or withered by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies, And fields without a flower, for warmer France With all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden fruitage, and her myrtle bowers.
Seite 37 - Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son; Got, while his soul did huddled notions try; And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy.
Seite 77 - 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 : And he, whose lightning pierc'd th...
Seite 45 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Seite 53 - 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 awhile one parent from the sky...
Seite 11 - And curses Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What Drop or Nostrum can this plague remove?