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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... verfe and praise ; Nor like a puppy , daggled thro ' the town , To fetch and carry fing - fong up and down ; Nor at Rehearsals fweat , and mouth'd , and cry'd , With handkerchief and orange at my side ; But fick of fops , and poetry ...
... verfe and praise ; Nor like a puppy , daggled thro ' the town , To fetch and carry fing - fong up and down ; Nor at Rehearsals fweat , and mouth'd , and cry'd , With handkerchief and orange at my side ; But fick of fops , and poetry ...
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... Verfe , and QUEENSB'RY Weeping o'er thy urn ! 250 Oh let me live my own , and die fo too ! ( To live and die is all I have to do :) Maintain a Poet's dignity and ease , And see what friends , and read what books I please : Above a ...
... Verfe , and QUEENSB'RY Weeping o'er thy urn ! 250 Oh let me live my own , and die fo too ! ( To live and die is all I have to do :) Maintain a Poet's dignity and ease , And see what friends , and read what books I please : Above a ...
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... verfe , Then smooth up all , and CAROLINE rehearse . P. No - the high task to lift up Kings to Gods Leave to Court - fermons , and to birth - day Odes . 280 a By not making the World his School he means , he did not form his fyftem of ...
... verfe , Then smooth up all , and CAROLINE rehearse . P. No - the high task to lift up Kings to Gods Leave to Court - fermons , and to birth - day Odes . 280 a By not making the World his School he means , he did not form his fyftem of ...
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Alexander Pope. Curst be the verfe , how well - foe'er it flow , That tends to make one worthy man my foe , Give Virtue fcandal , Innocence a fear , Or from the foft - ey'd Virgin steal a téar ! But he who hurts a harmless neighbour's ...
Alexander Pope. Curst be the verfe , how well - foe'er it flow , That tends to make one worthy man my foe , Give Virtue fcandal , Innocence a fear , Or from the foft - ey'd Virgin steal a téar ! But he who hurts a harmless neighbour's ...
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... verfe , the trifle of a day . And if it live , it lives but to commend The man whofe heart has ne'er forgot a friend , Or head , an Author : Critic , yet polite , 416 SATIRES AND EPISTLES O F HORACE IMITATED . } T And friend to Learning ...
... verfe , the trifle of a day . And if it live , it lives but to commend The man whofe heart has ne'er forgot a friend , Or head , an Author : Critic , yet polite , 416 SATIRES AND EPISTLES O F HORACE IMITATED . } T And friend to Learning ...
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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.