The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death, Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton, 4. köideA. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, C. Bathurst, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, J. Richardson, B. Law, S. Crowder, T. Longman, T. Field, and T. Caslon, 1760 |
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... moral and poetic Character . For after having told his cafe , and humorously applied to his Physician in the manner one would ask for a receipt to kill Vermin , he strait goes on , in the common character of askers of advice , to tell ...
... moral and poetic Character . For after having told his cafe , and humorously applied to his Physician in the manner one would ask for a receipt to kill Vermin , he strait goes on , in the common character of askers of advice , to tell ...
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... moral and poetic con- duct through life . In which he fhews that not fame , but VIRTUE was the conftant object of his ambition : that for this he oppofed himself to all the violence of Cabals , and the treacheries of Courts : the ...
... moral and poetic con- duct through life . In which he fhews that not fame , but VIRTUE was the conftant object of his ambition : that for this he oppofed himself to all the violence of Cabals , and the treacheries of Courts : the ...
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... moral title , to pafs for any man's but his . So the Efay on Human Life , the Effay on Reafon , and many others of a worfe tendency , were very liberally bestowed upon him . Give Virtue fcandal , Innocence a fear , 285 Or D 2 TO THE ...
... moral title , to pafs for any man's but his . So the Efay on Human Life , the Effay on Reafon , and many others of a worfe tendency , were very liberally bestowed upon him . Give Virtue fcandal , Innocence a fear , 285 Or D 2 TO THE ...
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... moral character . And his fuperior excellence in poetry is owing to it . He foon difcovered in what his force lay ; and he made the best of that advantage , by a fedulous culti- vation of his proper talent . For having read Quintilian ...
... moral character . And his fuperior excellence in poetry is owing to it . He foon difcovered in what his force lay ; and he made the best of that advantage , by a fedulous culti- vation of his proper talent . For having read Quintilian ...
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... moral effects of an often repeated flander . VER . 359. For thee , fair Virtue ! welcome ev'n the last ! ] This line is remarkable for prefenting us with the most ami- able image of steddy Virtue , mixed with a modest concern for his ...
... moral effects of an often repeated flander . VER . 359. For thee , fair Virtue ! welcome ev'n the last ! ] This line is remarkable for prefenting us with the most ami- able image of steddy Virtue , mixed with a modest concern for his ...
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Page 11 - 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? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love?
Page 39 - 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 30 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 12 - Three things another's modest wishes bound, My friendship, and a prologue, and ten pound. Pitholeon sends to me : ' You know his Grace, ' I want a patron ; ask him for a place.
Page 24 - 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 272 - If of Court life you knew the good. You would leave loneness. ' I said, 'Not alone My loneness is; but Spartan's fashion, To teach by painting drunkards, doth not last Now; Aretine's pictures have made few chaste; No more can princes...
Page 211 - This subtle Thief of life, this paltry Time, What will it leave me, if it snatch my rhyme? If ev'ry wheel of that unweary'd Mill, That turn'd ten thousand verses, now stands still?
Page 39 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or, at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad...
Page 14 - The truth once told (and wherefore should we lie?) The Queen of Midas slept, and so may I. You think this cruel ? take it for a rule, No creature smarts so little as a fool. Let peals of laughter, Codrus ! round thee break, 85 Thou unconcern'd canst hear the mighty crack: Pit, box, and gall'ry in convulsions hurl'd, Thou stand'st unshook amidst a bursting world. Who shames a Scribbler? break one cobweb thro...
Page 13 - Furies, death and rage!" If I approve, "Commend it to the stage.