The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions and Improvements, 5. köideT. & G. Palmer, 1804 - 754 pages |
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... half - a - crown , Just writes to make his barrenness appear , And strains from hard - bound brains eight lines a - year ; He who still wanting , tho ' he lives on theft , Steals much , spends little , yet has nothing left ; And he who ...
... half - a - crown , Just writes to make his barrenness appear , And strains from hard - bound brains eight lines a - year ; He who still wanting , tho ' he lives on theft , Steals much , spends little , yet has nothing left ; And he who ...
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... Half froth , half venom , spits himself abroad , In puns , or politics , or tales , or lies , 325 Or spite , or smut , or rhymes , or blasphemies ; His wit all see - saw between that and this , Now high , now low , now master up , now ...
... Half froth , half venom , spits himself abroad , In puns , or politics , or tales , or lies , 325 Or spite , or smut , or rhymes , or blasphemies ; His wit all see - saw between that and this , Now high , now low , now master up , now ...
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... half - approving wit , The coxcomb hit , or fearing to be hit ; Laugh'd at the loss of friends he never had , The dull , the proud , the wicked , and the mad ; The distant threats of vengeance on his head , The blow unfelt , the tear he ...
... half - approving wit , The coxcomb hit , or fearing to be hit ; Laugh'd at the loss of friends he never had , The dull , the proud , the wicked , and the mad ; The distant threats of vengeance on his head , The blow unfelt , the tear he ...
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... half - pint bottle serves them both to dine , And is at once their vinegar and wine : But on some lucky day , ( as when they found 55 A lost bank - bill , or heard their son was drown'd , ) At such a feast , old vinegar to spare , Is ...
... half - pint bottle serves them both to dine , And is at once their vinegar and wine : But on some lucky day , ( as when they found 55 A lost bank - bill , or heard their son was drown'd , ) At such a feast , old vinegar to spare , Is ...
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... half the new - built churches round thee f.ll ? Make quays , build bridges , or repair Whitehall ; 120 Or to thy country let that heap be lent , As M ** o's was , but not at five per cent . Who thinks that Fortune cannot change her mind ...
... half the new - built churches round thee f.ll ? Make quays , build bridges , or repair Whitehall ; 120 Or to thy country let that heap be lent , As M ** o's was , but not at five per cent . Who thinks that Fortune cannot change her mind ...
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Page 12 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Blest with each talent and each art to please, 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 13 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Page 18 - A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest ; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Page 15 - Oh let me live my own, and die so 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 patron, tho' I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend.
Page 6 - And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove?
Page 17 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; 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.
Page 32 - There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place: There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...
Page 8 - Glad of a quarrel, straight I clap the door, Sir, let me see your works and you no more. *Tis sung, when Midas...
Page 5 - A maudlin Poetess, a rhyming Peer, A Clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a Stanza, when he should engross!
Page 11 - Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flow'ry theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream.