Miscellaneous Poems and Translations: By Several Hands. Particularly, I. Windsor-Forest, ... By Mr. PopeBernard Lintot, 1720 |
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... sense . [ fence Some few in that , but numbers err in this , Ten cenfure wrong for one who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose , 1 Now one in verse makes many more in profe . ' Tis with our judgments as our watches ...
... sense . [ fence Some few in that , but numbers err in this , Ten cenfure wrong for one who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose , 1 Now one in verse makes many more in profe . ' Tis with our judgments as our watches ...
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... but be difcreet , 50 And mark that point where sense and dulness meet . Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit , And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending wit . As As on the land while here the ocean gains , and TRANSLATIONS . 37.
... but be difcreet , 50 And mark that point where sense and dulness meet . Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit , And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending wit . As As on the land while here the ocean gains , and TRANSLATIONS . 37.
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... sense , and doubt their own ! Of all the caufes which confpire to blind Man's erring judgment , and misguide the mind , What the weak head with strongest biass rules , Is pride , the never - failing vice of fools . Whatever nature has ...
... sense , and doubt their own ! Of all the caufes which confpire to blind Man's erring judgment , and misguide the mind , What the weak head with strongest biass rules , Is pride , the never - failing vice of fools . Whatever nature has ...
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... sense ! If once right reason drives that cloud away , Truth breaks upon us with resistless day ; Trust not your self ; but your defects to know , Make use of ev'ry friend and ev'ry foe . A little learning is a dang'rous thing ; Drink ...
... sense ! If once right reason drives that cloud away , Truth breaks upon us with resistless day ; Trust not your self ; but your defects to know , Make use of ev'ry friend and ev'ry foe . A little learning is a dang'rous thing ; Drink ...
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... sense ! Such labour'd nothings , in so strange a style , Amaze th ' unlearn'd , and make the learned smile . Unlucky , as Fungofo in the † play , These sparks with aukward vanity display What the fine gentlemen wore yesterday : And but ...
... sense ! Such labour'd nothings , in so strange a style , Amaze th ' unlearn'd , and make the learned smile . Unlucky , as Fungofo in the † play , These sparks with aukward vanity display What the fine gentlemen wore yesterday : And but ...
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