The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &cA. Millar [and others], 1757 |
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... ridicule , will make a feparation our old impreffions get the better of our new , or , at least , suffer themselves to be no further impaired than by the admiffion of a mixture of pity and concern . Ibid . ATTICUS ] It was a great ...
... ridicule , will make a feparation our old impreffions get the better of our new , or , at least , suffer themselves to be no further impaired than by the admiffion of a mixture of pity and concern . Ibid . ATTICUS ] It was a great ...
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... ridicule on the public neceffities of the Great , our Poet was candid enough to confefs that they are not always to be im- puted to them , as their private may . For ( when uninfected by the neighbourhood of Party ) he fpeaks of those ...
... ridicule on the public neceffities of the Great , our Poet was candid enough to confefs that they are not always to be im- puted to them , as their private may . For ( when uninfected by the neighbourhood of Party ) he fpeaks of those ...
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... ridicule of the queftion.- Julian has a parallel ftroke , in his farcaftic difcourfe to the people of Antioch , where he tells them a story out of Flu- tarch , concerning Cato ; who , when he came near their City , found their youth ...
... ridicule of the queftion.- Julian has a parallel ftroke , in his farcaftic difcourfe to the people of Antioch , where he tells them a story out of Flu- tarch , concerning Cato ; who , when he came near their City , found their youth ...
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... ridicule . If it be asked then , why he took any body at all to imitate , he has informed us in his Advertisement . To which we may add , that this fort of Imitations , which are of the nature of Parodies , adds reflected grace and ...
... ridicule . If it be asked then , why he took any body at all to imitate , he has informed us in his Advertisement . To which we may add , that this fort of Imitations , which are of the nature of Parodies , adds reflected grace and ...
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Alexander Pope. Da Safe from the Bar , the Pulpit & the Throne , Yet touchd and sham'd by Ridicule alone . Ep : to Satires , Part 2 P. SATIRE I. To Mr. FORTESCUE . THE HERE are Plate XVII Vol . IV . facing p.35.
Alexander Pope. Da Safe from the Bar , the Pulpit & the Throne , Yet touchd and sham'd by Ridicule alone . Ep : to Satires , Part 2 P. SATIRE I. To Mr. FORTESCUE . THE HERE are Plate XVII Vol . IV . facing p.35.
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Page 21 - A Cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust; Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Page 12 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Page 17 - Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do :) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please ; Above a patron, tho' I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend.
Page 49 - 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 45 - Slander or Poison dread from Delia's rage, Hard words or hanging, if your Judge be Page.
Page 17 - And those they left me; for they left me Gay; Left me to see neglected genius bloom, Neglected die, and 'tell it on his tomb: Of all thy blameless...
Page 27 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Page 182 - Sir, though (I thank God for it) I do hate Perfectly all this town, yet there's one state In all ill things so excellently best, That hate towards them breeds pity towards the rest.
Page 6 - Furies, death and rage!" If I approve, "Commend it to the stage.
Page 24 - If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit...