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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... beauty of this line arifes from the figurative terms of the predi- cate alluding to the fubject . A fecret , in elegant expreffion , which our Author often practifed . VER . 13. Mint . ] A place to which infolvent debtors retired , to ...
... beauty of this line arifes from the figurative terms of the predi- cate alluding to the fubject . A fecret , in elegant expreffion , which our Author often practifed . VER . 13. Mint . ] A place to which infolvent debtors retired , to ...
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... beauty of the thought . For though a fcribler exifts by being thus incor- porated , yet he exists intombed , a lafting monument of the wrath of the Mufes . VER , 173. Were others angry : ] The Poets , - VER . 174. I gave them but their ...
... beauty of the thought . For though a fcribler exifts by being thus incor- porated , yet he exists intombed , a lafting monument of the wrath of the Mufes . VER , 173. Were others angry : ] The Poets , - VER . 174. I gave them but their ...
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... Beauty in distress , Who loves a Lye , lame flander helps about , Who writes a Libel , or who copies out : That Fop , whose pride affects a patron's name , Yet abfent , wounds an author's honeft fame : Who can your merit felfifhly ...
... Beauty in distress , Who loves a Lye , lame flander helps about , Who writes a Libel , or who copies out : That Fop , whose pride affects a patron's name , Yet abfent , wounds an author's honeft fame : Who can your merit felfifhly ...
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... beauty ne'er enjoys : So well - bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite . Eternal fmiles his emptiness betray , 315 As shallow streams run dimpling all the way . Whether in florid impotence he speaks ...
... beauty ne'er enjoys : So well - bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite . Eternal fmiles his emptiness betray , 315 As shallow streams run dimpling all the way . Whether in florid impotence he speaks ...
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... Beauty that shocks you , parts that none will truft , Wit that can creep , and pride that licks the dust . Not Fortune's worshiper , nor Fashion's fool , Not Lucre's madman , nor Ambition's tool , Not proud , nor fervile ; Be one Poet's ...
... Beauty that shocks you , parts that none will truft , Wit that can creep , and pride that licks the dust . Not Fortune's worshiper , nor Fashion's fool , Not Lucre's madman , nor Ambition's tool , Not proud , nor fervile ; Be one Poet's ...
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