The Works of Alexander Pope Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; ... Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warbuton, 4. köideJ. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, and C. Bathurst, 1752 |
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... speak , or burst . And is not mine , my friend , a forer case , When ev'ry coxcomb perks them in my face ? A.Good friend forbear ! you deal in dang ' rous things . I'd never name Queens , Ministers , or Kings ; 76 Keep close to Ears ...
... speak , or burst . And is not mine , my friend , a forer case , When ev'ry coxcomb perks them in my face ? A.Good friend forbear ! you deal in dang ' rous things . I'd never name Queens , Ministers , or Kings ; 76 Keep close to Ears ...
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... speaks of thofe diftreffes much more difpaffionately . Our Minifters like Gladiators live , ' Tis half their bus'nefs blows to ward , or give ; The good their Virtue would effect , or Senfe , Dies between Exigents and Self - defence ...
... speaks of thofe diftreffes much more difpaffionately . Our Minifters like Gladiators live , ' Tis half their bus'nefs blows to ward , or give ; The good their Virtue would effect , or Senfe , Dies between Exigents and Self - defence ...
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... , whose conduct in life was governed only on principles of policy : for of what mi- nifters he speaks , may be feen by the character he gives , in the next line , of the Courts they belong to . Has Life no joys for me ? or ( to 32 PROLOGUE.
... , whose conduct in life was governed only on principles of policy : for of what mi- nifters he speaks , may be feen by the character he gives , in the next line , of the Courts they belong to . Has Life no joys for me ? or ( to 32 PROLOGUE.
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... speaks , And , as the prompter breathes , the puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eve , familiar Toad , Half froth , half venom , fpits himself abroad , 320 In puns , or politics , or tales , or lies , Or fpite , or smut , or rhymes , or ...
... speaks , And , as the prompter breathes , the puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eve , familiar Toad , Half froth , half venom , fpits himself abroad , 320 In puns , or politics , or tales , or lies , Or fpite , or smut , or rhymes , or ...
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... speak , amongft his friends , of the blind partiality of the public in the latter , with the contempt it deferved . For however he might fometime mistake his fort , he was never the dupe of the Pub- lic judgment . Of which a learned ...
... speak , amongft his friends , of the blind partiality of the public in the latter , with the contempt it deferved . For however he might fometime mistake his fort , he was never the dupe of the Pub- lic judgment . Of which a learned ...
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