The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Eight Volumes, Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; Together with All His Notes, 2. köideW. Cavil, T. Martin, T. French, and J. Wren, 1795 |
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Page 12
... write as fcholars can , Men should stand mark'd with far more wickedness , Than all the fons of Adam could redrefs . Love feldom haunts the breast where learning lies , And Venus fets ere Mercury can rise . 370 Thofe play the scholars ...
... write as fcholars can , Men should stand mark'd with far more wickedness , Than all the fons of Adam could redrefs . Love feldom haunts the breast where learning lies , And Venus fets ere Mercury can rise . 370 Thofe play the scholars ...
Page 90
... write ; if friends , they read me dead . Seiz'd and ty'd down to judge , how wretched I ! Who can't be filent , and who will not lie : To laugh , were want of goodness and of grace ; And to be grave , exceeds all pow'r of face . I fit ...
... write ; if friends , they read me dead . Seiz'd and ty'd down to judge , how wretched I ! Who can't be filent , and who will not lie : To laugh , were want of goodness and of grace ; And to be grave , exceeds all pow'r of face . I fit ...
Page 91
... write a Journal , or he'll turn divine . " Blefs me ! a packet .---- " " Tis a stranger fues , 66 A virgin tragedy , an orphan mufe . " If I dislike it , " Furies , death , and rage ! " If I " Commend it to the stage . ' There ( thank ...
... write a Journal , or he'll turn divine . " Blefs me ! a packet .---- " " Tis a stranger fues , 66 A virgin tragedy , an orphan mufe . " If I dislike it , " Furies , death , and rage ! " If I " Commend it to the stage . ' There ( thank ...
Page 93
... write , and I am twice as tall ; But foes like thefe ---- P . One flatt'rer's worse than all . Of all mad creatures , if the learn'd are right , 105 It is the flaver kills , and not the bite . IIO A fool quite angry is quite innocent ...
... write , and I am twice as tall ; But foes like thefe ---- P . One flatt'rer's worse than all . Of all mad creatures , if the learn'd are right , 105 It is the flaver kills , and not the bite . IIO A fool quite angry is quite innocent ...
Page 94
... write ? what fin to me unknown Dipt me in ink , my parents ' , or my own ? As yet a child , nor yet a fool to fame , I lisp'd in numbers , for the numbers came . NOTES . 120 126 Ver . 127. As yet a child , & c . ] Mr Pope began to write ...
... write ? what fin to me unknown Dipt me in ink , my parents ' , or my own ? As yet a child , nor yet a fool to fame , I lisp'd in numbers , for the numbers came . NOTES . 120 126 Ver . 127. As yet a child , & c . ] Mr Pope began to write ...
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