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, 3. köideJ. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, and C. Bathurst, 1752 |
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... fall'n Juftice proftrate on the ground ; Swift to redress an injur'd People's groan , Bold SATIRE shakes the Tyrant on her throne Pow'rful as Death , defies the fordid train , And Slaves and Sycophants furround in vain . 130 ; But with ...
... fall'n Juftice proftrate on the ground ; Swift to redress an injur'd People's groan , Bold SATIRE shakes the Tyrant on her throne Pow'rful as Death , defies the fordid train , And Slaves and Sycophants furround in vain . 130 ; But with ...
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... fall , She throws a dazzling glare alike on all ; As the gay Prism but mocks the flatter'd eye , And gives to ev'ry object ev'ry dye . Beware the mad Advent'rer : bold and blind She hoifts her fail , and drives with ev'ry wind ; Deaf as ...
... fall , She throws a dazzling glare alike on all ; As the gay Prism but mocks the flatter'd eye , And gives to ev'ry object ev'ry dye . Beware the mad Advent'rer : bold and blind She hoifts her fail , and drives with ev'ry wind ; Deaf as ...
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... fall with Truth , you greatly fall . ' Tis Virtue's native luftre that must shine ; The Poet can but set it in his line : And who unmov'd with laughter can behold 335 A fordid pebble meanly grac'd with gold ? Let real Merit then adorn ...
... fall with Truth , you greatly fall . ' Tis Virtue's native luftre that must shine ; The Poet can but set it in his line : And who unmov'd with laughter can behold 335 A fordid pebble meanly grac'd with gold ? Let real Merit then adorn ...
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... fall into the notion , that Vice and Virtue there is none at all ( Ep . ii . † 212 ) This occafions the poet to divide his vindication of the ways of God into two parts . In the first of which he gives direct an- fwers to thofe ...
... fall into the notion , that Vice and Virtue there is none at all ( Ep . ii . † 212 ) This occafions the poet to divide his vindication of the ways of God into two parts . In the first of which he gives direct an- fwers to thofe ...
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... fall , VARIATIONS . After 88. in the MS . No great , no little ; ' tis as much decreed That Virgil's Gnat should die as Cæfar bleed . COMMENTARY . make him neglect or defert his Duty here . This he illustrates by an inftance in the lamb ...
... fall , VARIATIONS . After 88. in the MS . No great , no little ; ' tis as much decreed That Virgil's Gnat should die as Cæfar bleed . COMMENTARY . make him neglect or defert his Duty here . This he illustrates by an inftance in the lamb ...
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