The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &cJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... whole commiffion ends , The Play'rs and I are , luckily , no friends . VARIATIONS . VER . 53. in the MS . If you refufe , he goes , as fates incline , To plague Sir Robert , or to turn Divine . VER . 60. in the former Edd . Cibber and I ...
... whole commiffion ends , The Play'rs and I are , luckily , no friends . VARIATIONS . VER . 53. in the MS . If you refufe , he goes , as fates incline , To plague Sir Robert , or to turn Divine . VER . 60. in the former Edd . Cibber and I ...
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... whole Castalian state . Proud as Apollo on his forked hill , Sate full - blown Bufo , puff'd by ev'ry quill ; Fed with foft Dedication all day long , Horace and he went hand in hand in song . His Library ( where bufts of Poets dead And ...
... whole Castalian state . Proud as Apollo on his forked hill , Sate full - blown Bufo , puff'd by ev'ry quill ; Fed with foft Dedication all day long , Horace and he went hand in hand in song . His Library ( where bufts of Poets dead And ...
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... whole week's war with Sense , Or fimple pride for flatt'ry makes demands , May dunce by dunce be whiftled off my hands ! Bleft be the Great ! for thofe they take away , And those they left me ; for they left me GAY ; Left me to fee ...
... whole week's war with Sense , Or fimple pride for flatt'ry makes demands , May dunce by dunce be whiftled off my hands ! Bleft be the Great ! for thofe they take away , And those they left me ; for they left me GAY ; Left me to fee ...
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... whole fortune of a man entirely unrelated to him . VER . 381. His father , mother , & c . ] In fome of Curl's and other pamphlets , Mr. Pope's father was faid to be a Mechanic , a Hatter , a Farmer , nay a Bankrupt . But , what is ...
... whole fortune of a man entirely unrelated to him . VER . 381. His father , mother , & c . ] In fome of Curl's and other pamphlets , Mr. Pope's father was faid to be a Mechanic , a Hatter , a Farmer , nay a Bankrupt . But , what is ...
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... whole force of it . VER . 71. I only wear it in a land of Hectors , etc. ] Su- perior to , tutus ab infeftis latronibus , which only carries on the metaphor in enfis Vagina tectus , t I only wear it in a land of Hectors 46 Book II ...
... whole force of it . VER . 71. I only wear it in a land of Hectors , etc. ] Su- perior to , tutus ab infeftis latronibus , which only carries on the metaphor in enfis Vagina tectus , t I only wear it in a land of Hectors 46 Book II ...
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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.