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The Bard whom pilfer'd Pastorals renown , Who turns a Perfian tale for half a Crown , Juft writes to make his barrenness appear , And strains from hard - bound brains , eight lines year , He , who still wanting , tho ' he lives on theft ...
The Bard whom pilfer'd Pastorals renown , Who turns a Perfian tale for half a Crown , Juft writes to make his barrenness appear , And strains from hard - bound brains , eight lines year , He , who still wanting , tho ' he lives on theft ...
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Our Minifters like Gladiators live , ' Tis 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 .
Our Minifters like Gladiators live , ' Tis 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 .
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... the puppet fqueaks ; Or at the ear of Eve , familiar Toad , Half froth , half venom , fpits himself abroad , 300 315 320 VER . 299. Who to the Dean , and filver bell & c ] Meaning the man who would have perfuaded the Duke of Chandos ...
... the puppet fqueaks ; Or at the ear of Eve , familiar Toad , Half froth , half venom , fpits himself abroad , 300 315 320 VER . 299. Who to the Dean , and filver bell & c ] Meaning the man who would have perfuaded the Duke of Chandos ...
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Half froth , ] Alluding to those frothy excretions , called by the people , Toad - fpits , feen in fummer - time hanging upon plants , and emitted by young infects which lie hid in the midft of them , for their prefervation , while in ...
Half froth , ] Alluding to those frothy excretions , called by the people , Toad - fpits , feen in fummer - time hanging upon plants , and emitted by young infects which lie hid in the midft of them , for their prefervation , while in ...
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That not for Fame , but Virtue's better end , He stood the furious foe , the timid friend , The damning critic , half approving wit , The coxcomb hit , or fearing to be hit ; Laugh'd at the lofs of friends he never had , The dull ...
That not for Fame , but Virtue's better end , He stood the furious foe , the timid friend , The damning critic , half approving wit , The coxcomb hit , or fearing to be hit ; Laugh'd at the lofs of friends he never had , The dull ...
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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...
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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.
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| Pealkiri | 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. köide 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, Alexander Pope |
| Autor | Alexander Pope |
| Published | 1754 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 22 sept. 2006 |
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