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 48
... tamen me 1 Cum magnis vixisse invita fatebitur ufque Invidia ; et fragili quaerens illidere dentem , Offendet folido : VER . 129. And H1 , whofe lightning , etc. ] Charlés Mordaunt Earl of Peterborow , who in the year 1705 took ...
... tamen me 1 Cum magnis vixisse invita fatebitur ufque Invidia ; et fragili quaerens illidere dentem , Offendet folido : VER . 129. And H1 , whofe lightning , etc. ] Charlés Mordaunt Earl of Peterborow , who in the year 1705 took ...
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... tamen ut monitus caveas , ne forte negotî Incutiat tibi quid fanctarum infcitia legum : m " . Și mala condiderit in quem quis carmina , jus eft Judiciumque . " H. Efto , fiquis mala . fed bona fi quis Judice condiderit laudatus CAESARE ...
... tamen ut monitus caveas , ne forte negotî Incutiat tibi quid fanctarum infcitia legum : m " . Și mala condiderit in quem quis carmina , jus eft Judiciumque . " H. Efto , fiquis mala . fed bona fi quis Judice condiderit laudatus CAESARE ...
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... tamen eripiam , pofito pavone , velis quin Hoc potius quam gallina tergere palatum ; Corruptus vanis rerum : quia veneat auro Rara avis , et picta pandat spectacula cauda : Tamquam ad rem attineat quidquam . Num vel ceris ifta , Quam ...
... tamen eripiam , pofito pavone , velis quin Hoc potius quam gallina tergere palatum ; Corruptus vanis rerum : quia veneat auro Rara avis , et picta pandat spectacula cauda : Tamquam ad rem attineat quidquam . Num vel ceris ifta , Quam ...
Page 62
... tamen ad melius poterit tranfcurrere quondam ; Sive diem feftum rediens advexerit annus , Seu recreare volet tenuatum corpus : ubique Accedent anni , et tractari mollius aetas Imbecilla volet . Tibi quidnam accedet ad iftam , Quam puer ...
... tamen ad melius poterit tranfcurrere quondam ; Sive diem feftum rediens advexerit annus , Seu recreare volet tenuatum corpus : ubique Accedent anni , et tractari mollius aetas Imbecilla volet . Tibi quidnam accedet ad iftam , Quam puer ...
Page 78
... tamen idcirco contemnas lippus inungi : Nec , quia defperes invicti membra Glyconis , Nodofa corpus nolis prohibere cheragra . Eft quadam prodire * tenus , fi non datur ultra . y Fervet avaritia , miferoque cupidine pectus ? Sunt verba ...
... tamen idcirco contemnas lippus inungi : Nec , quia defperes invicti membra Glyconis , Nodofa corpus nolis prohibere cheragra . Eft quadam prodire * tenus , fi non datur ultra . y Fervet avaritia , miferoque cupidine pectus ? Sunt verba ...
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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.