The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions and Improvements, 5. köideT. & G. Palmer, 1804 - 754 pages |
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... Pains , reading , study , are their just pretence , And all they want is spirit , taste , and sense . Commas and points they set exactly right , And ' twere a sin to rob them of their mite ; Yet ne'er one sprig of laurel grac❜d these ...
... Pains , reading , study , are their just pretence , And all they want is spirit , taste , and sense . Commas and points they set exactly right , And ' twere a sin to rob them of their mite ; Yet ne'er one sprig of laurel grac❜d these ...
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... to the world no bugbear is so great As want of figure and a small estate . To either India see the merchant fly , Scar'd at the Spectre of pale Poverty ! 70 See him with pains of body , pangs of soul IMITATIONS OF HORACE . 55.
... to the world no bugbear is so great As want of figure and a small estate . To either India see the merchant fly , Scar'd at the Spectre of pale Poverty ! 70 See him with pains of body , pangs of soul IMITATIONS OF HORACE . 55.
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With His Last Corrections, Additions and Improvements Alexander Pope. See him with pains of body , pangs of soul , Burn thro ' the tropic , freeze beneath the pole ! Wilt thou do nothing for a nobler end , Nothing to make Philosophy thy ...
With His Last Corrections, Additions and Improvements Alexander Pope. See him with pains of body , pangs of soul , Burn thro ' the tropic , freeze beneath the pole ! Wilt thou do nothing for a nobler end , Nothing to make Philosophy thy ...
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... pains . But art thou one whom new opinions sway , One who believes as Tindal leads the way , Who virtue and a church alike disowns , 65 Thinks that but words , and this but brick and stones ? Fly then on all the wings of wild desire ...
... pains . But art thou one whom new opinions sway , One who believes as Tindal leads the way , Who virtue and a church alike disowns , 65 Thinks that but words , and this but brick and stones ? Fly then on all the wings of wild desire ...
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... pains or equal fire The humbler Muse of Comedy require . But in known images of life I guess 280 The labour greater as the indulgence less . Observe how seldom ev'n the best succeed ; Tell me if Congreve's fools are fools indeed ? What ...
... pains or equal fire The humbler Muse of Comedy require . But in known images of life I guess 280 The labour greater as the indulgence less . Observe how seldom ev'n the best succeed ; Tell me if Congreve's fools are fools indeed ? What ...
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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.