The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Carefully Collated and Compared with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and CommentatorsEditor, and sold, 1778 |
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... mind , That cafting - weight pride adds to emptiness , This , who can gratify ? for who can guess ? The bard whom pilfer'd Paftorals renown , Who turns a Perfian tale for half a crown , Juft writes to make his barrennefs appear , 175 ...
... mind , That cafting - weight pride adds to emptiness , This , who can gratify ? for who can guess ? The bard whom pilfer'd Paftorals renown , Who turns a Perfian tale for half a crown , Juft writes to make his barrennefs appear , 175 ...
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... mind . That leaves the load of yefterday behind ? How eafy ev'ry labour it pursues ? How coming to the poet ev'ry Muse ? Not but we may exceed , fome holy time , 85 Or tir'd in fearch of truth , or fearch of rhyme ; Ill health fome juft ...
... mind . That leaves the load of yefterday behind ? How eafy ev'ry labour it pursues ? How coming to the poet ev'ry Muse ? Not but we may exceed , fome holy time , 85 Or tir'd in fearch of truth , or fearch of rhyme ; Ill health fome juft ...
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... mind , Perhaps a dreadful jeft for all mankind . And who ftands fafeft ? tell me , is it he 125 That spreads and fwells in puff'd profperity , Or bleft with little , whofe preventing care In peace provides fit arms againft a war ? Thus ...
... mind , Perhaps a dreadful jeft for all mankind . And who ftands fafeft ? tell me , is it he 125 That spreads and fwells in puff'd profperity , Or bleft with little , whofe preventing care In peace provides fit arms againft a war ? Thus ...
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... mind I copy what I can , And as I love , would imitate the man . In South - fea days not happier , when furmis'd The lord of thousands , than if now excis'd ; In foreft planted by a father's hand , Than in five acres now of rented land ...
... mind I copy what I can , And as I love , would imitate the man . In South - fea days not happier , when furmis'd The lord of thousands , than if now excis'd ; In foreft planted by a father's hand , Than in five acres now of rented land ...
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... mind , When ( each opinion with the next at ftrife , One ebb and flow of follies all my life ) I plant , root up ; I build , and then confound ; 165 175 Turn round to fquare , and fquare again to round ; 170 You never change one muscle ...
... mind , When ( each opinion with the next at ftrife , One ebb and flow of follies all my life ) I plant , root up ; I build , and then confound ; 165 175 Turn round to fquare , and fquare again to round ; 170 You never change one muscle ...
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Page 127 - And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so well enlarged upon in the preface to his works: That wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn.
Page 2 - Pope. Friend to my life, (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love?
Page 104 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Page 3 - The truth once told (and wherefore should we lie?) The Queen of Midas slept, and so may I. You think this cruel ? take it for a rule, No creature smarts so little as a fool. Let peals of laughter, Codrus ! round thee break, 85 Thou unconcern'd canst hear the mighty crack: Pit, box, and gall'ry in convulsions hurl'd, Thou stand'st unshook amidst a bursting world. Who shames a Scribbler? break one cobweb thro...
Page 9 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or, at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad...
Page 281 - We only furnish what he cannot use, Or wed to what he must divorce, a muse: Full in the midst of Euclid dip at once, And petrify a genius to a dunce: Or set on metaphysic ground to prance, Show all his paces, not a step advance.
Page 11 - 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...
Page 2 - And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove?
Page 171 - Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, Where o'er the gates, by his fam'd father's hand Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand; One Cell there is, conceal'd from vulgar eye, The Cave of Poverty and Poetry. Keen, hollow winds howl thro' the bleak recess, Emblem of Music caus'd by Emptiness.
Page 127 - ... or science, which have not been touched upon by others ; we have little else left us but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights. If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry...