The Works of Alexander Pope, with His Last Corrections, Additions and Improvements. With the Life of the Author, 2. köideD. Buchanan, 1804 - 332 pages |
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... pride adds to emptiness , This who can gratify ? for who can guess ? The hard whom pilfer'd paftorals renown , Who turns a Perfian tale for half a crown , Juft writes to make his barrennefs appear , And ftrains from hard - bound brains ...
... pride adds to emptiness , This who can gratify ? for who can guess ? The hard whom pilfer'd paftorals renown , Who turns a Perfian tale for half a crown , Juft writes to make his barrennefs appear , And ftrains from hard - bound brains ...
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... Pride for flatt'ry makes demands , May dunce by dunce be whiftled off my hands ! Blefs'd be the Great ? for thofe they take away , And those they left me ; for they left me GAY ; Left me to fee neglected Genius bloom , Neglected die ...
... Pride for flatt'ry makes demands , May dunce by dunce be whiftled off my hands ! Blefs'd be the Great ? for thofe they take away , And those they left me ; for they left me GAY ; Left me to fee neglected Genius bloom , Neglected die ...
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... pride affects a patron's name , Yet abfent , wounds an author's honeft fame : Who can your merit felfifbly approve , 290 And how the fenfe of it without the love ; Who has the vanity to call you Friend , Yet wants the honour , injur'd ...
... pride affects a patron's name , Yet abfent , wounds an author's honeft fame : Who can your merit felfifbly approve , 290 And how the fenfe of it without the love ; Who has the vanity to call you Friend , Yet wants the honour , injur'd ...
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... pride that licks the duft . Not Fortune's worshipper , nor Fashion's fool , Not Lucre's madman , nor Ambition's tool , Not proud , nor fervile ; be one poet's praife , That , if he pleas'd , he pleas'd by manly ways : That flatt'ry , ev ...
... pride that licks the duft . Not Fortune's worshipper , nor Fashion's fool , Not Lucre's madman , nor Ambition's tool , Not proud , nor fervile ; be one poet's praife , That , if he pleas'd , he pleas'd by manly ways : That flatt'ry , ev ...
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... pride , but friend to his distress : NOTES . 395 370 So Ver . 350. the lie fo oft o'erthrown , ] As , that he received fubfcriptions for Shakespeare ; that he fet his name to Mr. Broome's verfes , & c . which though publicly difproved ...
... pride , but friend to his distress : NOTES . 395 370 So Ver . 350. the lie fo oft o'erthrown , ] As , that he received fubfcriptions for Shakespeare ; that he fet his name to Mr. Broome's verfes , & c . which though publicly difproved ...
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