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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... King ) His very Minister who spy'd them first , 65 70 ( Some fay his Queen ) was forc'd to speak , or burft . VER . 53. in the MS . VARIATIONS . If you refufe , he goes , as fates incliné , To plague Sir Robert , or to turn Divine . VER ...
... King ) His very Minister who spy'd them first , 65 70 ( Some fay his Queen ) was forc'd to speak , or burft . VER . 53. in the MS . VARIATIONS . If you refufe , he goes , as fates incliné , To plague Sir Robert , or to turn Divine . VER ...
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... Kings ; Keep close to Ears , and those let affes prick , ' Tis nothing - P . Nothing ? if they bite and kick ? Out with it , DUNCIAD ! let the fecret pafs , That secret to each fool , that he's an Afs : The truth once told ( and ...
... Kings ; Keep close to Ears , and those let affes prick , ' Tis nothing - P . Nothing ? if they bite and kick ? Out with it , DUNCIAD ! let the fecret pafs , That secret to each fool , that he's an Afs : The truth once told ( and ...
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... 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 morality , on the principles or practice of men in business , Curst be the verfe , how ...
... 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 morality , on the principles or practice of men in business , Curst be the verfe , how ...
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... Kings , he held a shame , And thought a Lye in verse or prose the fame . That not in Fancy's maze he wander'd long , But ftoop'd to Truth , and moraliz'd his song : 340 VER . 320. Half froth , ] Alluding to those frothy excretions ...
... Kings , he held a shame , And thought a Lye in verse or prose the fame . That not in Fancy's maze he wander'd long , But ftoop'd to Truth , and moraliz'd his song : 340 VER . 320. Half froth , ] Alluding to those frothy excretions ...
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... King Charles ; the eldeft following his fortunes , and becoming a general officer in Spain , left her what estate remained after the fequeftrations and forfeitures of her family - Mr . Pope died in 1717 , aged 75 ; She in 1733 . The ...
... King Charles ; the eldeft following his fortunes , and becoming a general officer in Spain , left her what estate remained after the fequeftrations and forfeitures of her family - Mr . Pope died in 1717 , aged 75 ; She in 1733 . The ...
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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.