The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, 3. köideA. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, H. Lintot, and C. Bathurst, 1757 |
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Page iii
... Folly and Vice ought to be chastised , 269. The Variety of Style and Manner which thefe two Subjects require , The Praife of Virtue may be admitted with 277 . Propriety , 315. Caution with regard to Panegyric , 329. The Dignity of true ...
... Folly and Vice ought to be chastised , 269. The Variety of Style and Manner which thefe two Subjects require , The Praife of Virtue may be admitted with 277 . Propriety , 315. Caution with regard to Panegyric , 329. The Dignity of true ...
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... urge Mankind on Deeds that merit Fame : But Man , vain Man , in folly only wife , Rejects the Manna fent him from the Skies : 40 With rapture hears corrupted Paffion's call , Still proudly prone vi Part I. ESSAY ON SATIRE .
... urge Mankind on Deeds that merit Fame : But Man , vain Man , in folly only wife , Rejects the Manna fent him from the Skies : 40 With rapture hears corrupted Paffion's call , Still proudly prone vi Part I. ESSAY ON SATIRE .
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... folly not their own ! Meanly by fashionable fear opprefs'd , We seek our Virtues in each other's breaft ; Blind to ourselves , adopt each foreign Vice , Another's weakness , int'reft , or caprice . 65 70 Each Fool to low Ambition ...
... folly not their own ! Meanly by fashionable fear opprefs'd , We seek our Virtues in each other's breaft ; Blind to ourselves , adopt each foreign Vice , Another's weakness , int'reft , or caprice . 65 70 Each Fool to low Ambition ...
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... are vain ; 105 Defponding Fops refign the clouded cane : 7 Hufh'd at her voice , pert Folly's felf is ftill , And Dulness wonders while fhe drops her quill . Like the arm'd BEE , with art most subtly true Part I. ix ESSAY ON SATIRE ,
... are vain ; 105 Defponding Fops refign the clouded cane : 7 Hufh'd at her voice , pert Folly's felf is ftill , And Dulness wonders while fhe drops her quill . Like the arm'd BEE , with art most subtly true Part I. ix ESSAY ON SATIRE ,
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... Folly take their nat'ral fhapes , Turns Ducheffes to ftrumpets , Beaux to apes ; Drags the vile Whifp'rer from his dark abode , ' Till all the D¿mon starts up from the toad . O fordid maxim , form'd to fkreen the vile , That true good ...
... Folly take their nat'ral fhapes , Turns Ducheffes to ftrumpets , Beaux to apes ; Drags the vile Whifp'rer from his dark abode , ' Till all the D¿mon starts up from the toad . O fordid maxim , form'd to fkreen the vile , That true good ...
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