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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... fome perfons of Rank and Fortune [ the Authors of Verfes to the Imitator of Horace , and of an Epiftle to a Doctor of Divinity from a Nobleman at Hampton Court ] to attack , in a very extraordinary manner , not only my Writings ( of ...
... fome perfons of Rank and Fortune [ the Authors of Verfes to the Imitator of Horace , and of an Epiftle to a Doctor of Divinity from a Nobleman at Hampton Court ] to attack , in a very extraordinary manner , not only my Writings ( of ...
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... fome of them know , it was owing to the request of the learned and candid Friend to whom it is inscribed , that I make not as free use of theirs as they have done of mine . However , I fhall have this advantage , and honour , on my fide ...
... fome of them know , it was owing to the request of the learned and candid Friend to whom it is inscribed , that I make not as free use of theirs as they have done of mine . However , I fhall have this advantage , and honour , on my fide ...
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... Cibber and I are luckily no friends . VIR . 72. Queen ] The story is told , by fome , of his Barber , but by Chaucer of his Queen . See Wife of Bath's Tale in Dry- den's Fables . 76 And is not mine , my friend , a PROLOGUE.
... Cibber and I are luckily no friends . VIR . 72. Queen ] The story is told , by fome , of his Barber , but by Chaucer of his Queen . See Wife of Bath's Tale in Dry- den's Fables . 76 And is not mine , my friend , a PROLOGUE.
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... fome expect a bribe ; And others roar aloud , " Subfcribe , subscribe . " Time , praise , or money , is the least they crave ; Yet each declares the other fool or knave . They both spin ; not from the bead [ reafon ] but from the guts ...
... fome expect a bribe ; And others roar aloud , " Subfcribe , subscribe . " Time , praise , or money , is the least they crave ; Yet each declares the other fool or knave . They both spin ; not from the bead [ reafon ] but from the guts ...
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... fine , sharp , and piercing . It was done to in- timate , that flattery was as odious to him when there was fome I left no calling for this idle trade , No ground for commendation , as when there was none . TO THE SATIRES . 9.
... fine , sharp , and piercing . It was done to in- timate , that flattery was as odious to him when there was fome I left no calling for this idle trade , No ground for commendation , as when there was none . TO THE SATIRES . 9.
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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.