“The” Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Ten Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; ... Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton, 1. köideFredrick Nicolai, 1762 |
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Page xv
... Mufe's fport , And from the Critics fafe arriv'd in Port ; I little thought of launching forth agen , Amidit advent'rous Rovers of the Pen ; And after fo much undeferv'd fuccefs , Thus hazarding at laft to make it lefs . Encomiums fuit ...
... Mufe's fport , And from the Critics fafe arriv'd in Port ; I little thought of launching forth agen , Amidit advent'rous Rovers of the Pen ; And after fo much undeferv'd fuccefs , Thus hazarding at laft to make it lefs . Encomiums fuit ...
Page xvi
... Mufe fincere , that never Flatt'ry knew , Pays what to friendship and defert is due Young , yet judicious ; in your verfe are found Art ftrength'ning Nature , Sense improv'd by Sound . Unlike thofe Wits , whofe numbers glide along So ...
... Mufe fincere , that never Flatt'ry knew , Pays what to friendship and defert is due Young , yet judicious ; in your verfe are found Art ftrength'ning Nature , Sense improv'd by Sound . Unlike thofe Wits , whofe numbers glide along So ...
Page xvii
... Mufe , Should wear thofe flow'rs her native fields produce ; And the true meafure of the shepherd's wit Should , like his garb , be for the Country fit : Yer muft his pure and unaffected thought More nicely than the common fwain's be ...
... Mufe , Should wear thofe flow'rs her native fields produce ; And the true meafure of the shepherd's wit Should , like his garb , be for the Country fit : Yer muft his pure and unaffected thought More nicely than the common fwain's be ...
Page xviii
... Mufe unkoown before HAIL , Salutes thee from the bleak Atlantic shore . To our dark world thy fhining page is shown , And Windfor's gay retreat becomes our own . The Eaftern pomp had juft bespoke our care , And India pour'd her gaudy ...
... Mufe unkoown before HAIL , Salutes thee from the bleak Atlantic shore . To our dark world thy fhining page is shown , And Windfor's gay retreat becomes our own . The Eaftern pomp had juft bespoke our care , And India pour'd her gaudy ...
Page xix
... Mufe's glass . Nor fweeter notes the echoing Forefts chear , When Philomela fits and warbles there , 25 Than when you fing the greens and op'ning glades , And give us Harmony as well as Shades : A Titian's hand might draw the grove ...
... Mufe's glass . Nor fweeter notes the echoing Forefts chear , When Philomela fits and warbles there , 25 Than when you fing the greens and op'ning glades , And give us Harmony as well as Shades : A Titian's hand might draw the grove ...
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