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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... Poor Cornus fees his frantic wife elope , And curfes Wit , and Poetry , and Pope . Friend to my Life ! ( which did not you prolong , The world had wanted many an idle fong ) 25 C VARIATIONS . After ver . 20. in the MS . Is there a Bard ...
... Poor Cornus fees his frantic wife elope , And curfes Wit , and Poetry , and Pope . Friend to my Life ! ( which did not you prolong , The world had wanted many an idle fong ) 25 C VARIATIONS . After ver . 20. in the MS . Is there a Bard ...
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... Poor guiltlefs I ! and can I chufe but smile , When ev'ry Coxcomb knows me by my Style ? VARIATIONS . After VER . 270. ' in the MS . Friendships from youth I fought , and feek them ftill ; Fame , like the wind , may breathe where'er it ...
... Poor guiltlefs I ! and can I chufe but smile , When ev'ry Coxcomb knows me by my Style ? VARIATIONS . After VER . 270. ' in the MS . Friendships from youth I fought , and feek them ftill ; Fame , like the wind , may breathe where'er it ...
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... poor , affront the great ? 350 P. A knave's a knave , to me , in ev'ry ftate : Alike my fcorn , if he fucceed or fail , Sporus at court , or Japhet in a jail , A hireling feribler , or a hireling peer , Knight of the poft corrupt , or ...
... poor , affront the great ? 350 P. A knave's a knave , to me , in ev'ry ftate : Alike my fcorn , if he fucceed or fail , Sporus at court , or Japhet in a jail , A hireling feribler , or a hireling peer , Knight of the poft corrupt , or ...
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... poor : Cheap eggs , and herbs , and olives ftill we fee ; 35 Thus much is left of old Simplicity ! P'The Robin - red - breaft till of late had reft , And children facred held a Martin's nest , Till Becca - ficos fold fo dev'lish dear О ...
... poor : Cheap eggs , and herbs , and olives ftill we fee ; 35 Thus much is left of old Simplicity ! P'The Robin - red - breaft till of late had reft , And children facred held a Martin's nest , Till Becca - ficos fold fo dev'lish dear О ...
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... poor ? ] Cur eget indignus quifquam , te divite ? is here admirably paraphrased . And it is obfervable in these Imitations , that where our Poet keeps to the fentiments of Horace he rather piques himself in excelling the moft finished ...
... poor ? ] Cur eget indignus quifquam , te divite ? is here admirably paraphrased . And it is obfervable in these Imitations , that where our Poet keeps to the fentiments of Horace he rather piques himself in excelling the moft finished ...
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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.