The Works of Alexander Pope, 1. köideHenry Lintot, 1736 |
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... number on any confideration . The life of a Wit is a warfare upon earth ; and the present spirit of the learned world is fuch , that to attempt to serve it ( any way ) one must have the conftancy of a martyr , and a refolution to fuffer ...
... number on any confideration . The life of a Wit is a warfare upon earth ; and the present spirit of the learned world is fuch , that to attempt to serve it ( any way ) one must have the conftancy of a martyr , and a refolution to fuffer ...
Page xviii
... numbers glide along So fmooth , no thought e'er interrupts the fong : Laboriously enervate they appear , And write not to the head , but to the ear : Our minds unmov'd and unconcern'd they lull , And are at best most musically dull ; 5 ...
... numbers glide along So fmooth , no thought e'er interrupts the fong : Laboriously enervate they appear , And write not to the head , but to the ear : Our minds unmov'd and unconcern'd they lull , And are at best most musically dull ; 5 ...
Page xix
... numbers oft ' are empty found . But Wit and Judgment join at once in you , Sprightly as Youth , as Age confummate too : Your ftrains are regularly bold , and please With unforc'd care , and unaffected ease , With proper thoughts , and ...
... numbers oft ' are empty found . But Wit and Judgment join at once in you , Sprightly as Youth , as Age confummate too : Your ftrains are regularly bold , and please With unforc'd care , and unaffected ease , With proper thoughts , and ...
Page xxiii
... numbers fir'd That Maro taught , or Addison infpir'd . Ev'n I effay'd to touch the trembling string : Who cou'd hear them , and not attempt to fing ? Rouz'd from thefe dreams by thy commanding ftrain , I rife , and wander thro ' the ...
... numbers fir'd That Maro taught , or Addison infpir'd . Ev'n I effay'd to touch the trembling string : Who cou'd hear them , and not attempt to fing ? Rouz'd from thefe dreams by thy commanding ftrain , I rife , and wander thro ' the ...
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... numbers worthy thine ; The brightest Ancients might at once agree To fing within my lays , and fing of thee . Horace himself wou'd own thou dost excell In candid arts to play the Critic well . Ovid himself might wish to fing the Dame ...
... numbers worthy thine ; The brightest Ancients might at once agree To fing within my lays , and fing of thee . Horace himself wou'd own thou dost excell In candid arts to play the Critic well . Ovid himself might wish to fing the Dame ...
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