The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, 1. köideJames Nichol, 1856 - 326 pages |
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... fool might once himself alone expose , Now one in verse makes many more in prose . " Tis with our judgments as our watches , none Go just alike , yet each believes his own . In poets as true genius is but rare , True taste as seldom is ...
... fool might once himself alone expose , Now one in verse makes many more in prose . " Tis with our judgments as our watches , none Go just alike , yet each believes his own . In poets as true genius is but rare , True taste as seldom is ...
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... fools . In search of wit these lose their common sense , And then turn critics in their own defence : Each burns alike , who can , or cannot write , Or with a rival's , or an eunuch's spite . All fools have still an itching to deride ...
... fools . In search of wit these lose their common sense , And then turn critics in their own defence : Each burns alike , who can , or cannot write , Or with a rival's , or an eunuch's spite . All fools have still an itching to deride ...
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... fools . Some on the leaves of ancient authors prey , Nor time nor moths e'er spoil'd so much as they . Some drily plain , without invention's aid , Write dull receipts how poems may be made . 82 90 90 100 110 These leave the sense ...
... fools . Some on the leaves of ancient authors prey , Nor time nor moths e'er spoil'd so much as they . Some drily plain , without invention's aid , Write dull receipts how poems may be made . 82 90 90 100 110 These leave the sense ...
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... fools . Whatever Nature has in worth denied , She gives in large recruits of needless pride ; For as in bodies , thus in souls , we find What wants in blood and spirits , swell'd with wind : 177 190 200 Pride , where wit fails , steps ...
... fools . Whatever Nature has in worth denied , She gives in large recruits of needless pride ; For as in bodies , thus in souls , we find What wants in blood and spirits , swell'd with wind : 177 190 200 Pride , where wit fails , steps ...
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... e'er could Dennis , of the Grecian stage ; 239 250 260 270 1 La Mancha's knight : ' taken from the spurious second part of ' Don Quixote . ' Concluding all were desperate sots and fools , Who durst AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM . 37.
... e'er could Dennis , of the Grecian stage ; 239 250 260 270 1 La Mancha's knight : ' taken from the spurious second part of ' Don Quixote . ' Concluding all were desperate sots and fools , Who durst AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM . 37.
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ALEXANDER POPE ancient Bavius beauty bless'd blest bliss breast breath bright charms court cried critics crown'd Curll Cynthus divine Dunciad e'er earth ease Eclogues Elkanah Settle envy EPISTLE eternal eyes fair fame fate fire fix'd flames flowers fools genius glory Gnome grace groves happy head heart Heaven honour Horace Iliad kings knave laws learn'd live Lord Lord Bolingbroke mankind mind mortal Muse Muse's Nature Nature's ne'er never numbers nymph o'er once passion pastoral peace plain pleased poem poet Pope Pope's praise pride proud rage reason rhyme rise sacred Sappho satire sense shade shine sighs sing skies smile soft song soul spleen Sylphs taught tears Thalestris thee Theocritus things thou thought trembling truth Twas Umbriel VARIATIONS verse virtue WESTMINSTER ABBEY whate'er Whig wings write youth