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, 4. köide1754 |
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Page 32
... of Ho- race ; with whom , as a Poet , he held little in com- mon , befides a comprehenfive knowledge of life and manners , and a certain curious felicity of expreffi 1 on , which confifts in ufing the fimpleft language with 1.
... of Ho- race ; with whom , as a Poet , he held little in com- mon , befides a comprehenfive knowledge of life and manners , and a certain curious felicity of expreffi 1 on , which confifts in ufing the fimpleft language with 1.
Page 33
... Befides , he deemed it more modest to give the name of Imitati- ons to his Satires , than , like Defpreaux , to give the name of Satires to Imitations . SATIRA PRIMA . HORATIUS . TREBATIUS . SUNT HORATIU S. VOL . IV . D ( 33 )
... Befides , he deemed it more modest to give the name of Imitati- ons to his Satires , than , like Defpreaux , to give the name of Satires to Imitations . SATIRA PRIMA . HORATIUS . TREBATIUS . SUNT HORATIU S. VOL . IV . D ( 33 )
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... The Original is more finished , and even fublime . Befides , the last verse - Te wrap me in the universal shade , has a languor and redundancy unufual with our auther . C Quifquis erit vitae , fcribam , color . T. 3 Sat. I. 45 OF HORACE .
... The Original is more finished , and even fublime . Befides , the last verse - Te wrap me in the universal shade , has a languor and redundancy unufual with our auther . C Quifquis erit vitae , fcribam , color . T. 3 Sat. I. 45 OF HORACE .
Page 147
... Befides , a fate attends on all I write , That when I aim at praise , they say " I bite . A vile " Encomium doubly ridicules : There's nothing blackens like the ink of fools . 410 for that any barber - furgeon can curl and fhave , and ...
... Befides , a fate attends on all I write , That when I aim at praise , they say " I bite . A vile " Encomium doubly ridicules : There's nothing blackens like the ink of fools . 410 for that any barber - furgeon can curl and fhave , and ...
Page 157
... Befides , my Father taught me from a lad , The better art to know the good from bad : ( And little fure imported to remove , 50 55 To hunt for Truth in Maudlin's learned grove . ) But knottier points we knew not half so well , Depriv'd ...
... Befides , my Father taught me from a lad , The better art to know the good from bad : ( And little fure imported to remove , 50 55 To hunt for Truth in Maudlin's learned grove . ) But knottier points we knew not half so well , Depriv'd ...
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Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 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.
Page 14 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 167 - Bright through the rubbish of some hundred years ; Command old words, that long have slept, to wake, Words that wise Bacon or...
Page 6 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage!' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Page 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...
Page 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.