The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &cJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... last , but in unwilling ears , 39 This faving counfel , " Keep your piece nine years . " Nine years ! cries he , who high in Drury - lane , Lull'd by foft Zephyrs thro ' the broken pane , Rhymes ere he wakes , and prints before Term ...
... last , but in unwilling ears , 39 This faving counfel , " Keep your piece nine years . " Nine years ! cries he , who high in Drury - lane , Lull'd by foft Zephyrs thro ' the broken pane , Rhymes ere he wakes , and prints before Term ...
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... last ! A. But why infult the poor , affront the great ? 360 P. A knave's a knave , to me , in ev'ry state : Alike my scorn , if he succeed or fail , Sporus at court , or Japhet in a jail , A hireling fcribler , or a hireling peer ...
... last ! A. But why infult the poor , affront the great ? 360 P. A knave's a knave , to me , in ev'ry state : Alike my scorn , if he succeed or fail , Sporus at court , or Japhet in a jail , A hireling fcribler , or a hireling peer ...
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... last . 1 But ask not , to what Doctors I apply ? Sworn to no Mafter , of no Sect am I : m As drives the ftorm , at any door I knock : 20 25 And house with Montagne now , or now with Locke . Sometimes a Patriot , active in debate , n Mix ...
... last . 1 But ask not , to what Doctors I apply ? Sworn to no Mafter , of no Sect am I : m As drives the ftorm , at any door I knock : 20 25 And house with Montagne now , or now with Locke . Sometimes a Patriot , active in debate , n Mix ...
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... last and greatest Art , the Art to blot . Some doubt , if equal pains , or equal fire The humbler Mufe of Comedy require . But in known Images of life , I guess f The labour greater , as th ' indulgence lefs . Obferve how feldom ev'n ...
... last and greatest Art , the Art to blot . Some doubt , if equal pains , or equal fire The humbler Mufe of Comedy require . But in known Images of life , I guess f The labour greater , as th ' indulgence lefs . Obferve how feldom ev'n ...
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... - ginal , Poft hoc vehemens lupus , et fibi et bofti Iratus pariter , jejunis dentibus acer . The last words are particularly elegant and humourous . Summe munito , et multarum divite rerum . Clarus ob M 2 Ep . II . 163 OF HORACE .
... - ginal , Poft hoc vehemens lupus , et fibi et bofti Iratus pariter , jejunis dentibus acer . The last words are particularly elegant and humourous . Summe munito , et multarum divite rerum . Clarus ob M 2 Ep . II . 163 OF HORACE .
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Page 18 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 17 - 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 51 - Hear this, and tremble ! you who 'scape the laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world, in credit, to his grave.
Page 243 - Before her dance; behind her crawl the Old! See thronging Millions to the Pagod run, And offer Country, Parent, Wife, or Son! Hear her black Trumpet thro' the Land proclaim, That "Not to be corrupted is the Shame.
Page 19 - d by ev'ry quill ; Fed with soft dedication all day long, Horace and he went hand in hand in song.
Page 234 - Seen him, uncumber'd with the Venal tribe, Smile without Art, and win without a Bribe. Would he oblige me ? let me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind.
Page 6 - They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Page 30 - Bestia's from the throne. Born to no pride, inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious through his age. No courts he saw, no suits would ever try, Nor dar'd an oath, nor hazarded a lie.
Page 244 - Are what ten thousand envy and adore : All, all look up with reverential awe, At crimes that 'scape or triumph o'er the law ; While truth, worth, wisdom, daily they decry : Nothing is sacred now but villainy.
Page 157 - Besides, a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praise they say I bite. A vile encomium doubly ridicules : There's nothing blackens like the ink of fools. If true, a woful likeness ; and, if lies, ' Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.