The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements; together with all his notes: pr. verbatim from the octavo ed. of mr. Warburton, 4. köide1754 |
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... Still to one Bishop Philips feems a wit ? Still Sappho A. Hold ; for God - fake - you'll offend , No names be calm - learn prudence of a friend : I too could write , and I am twice as tall ; 105 But foes like thefe - P . One Flatt'rer's ...
... Still to one Bishop Philips feems a wit ? Still Sappho A. Hold ; for God - fake - you'll offend , No names be calm - learn prudence of a friend : I too could write , and I am twice as tall ; 105 But foes like thefe - P . One Flatt'rer's ...
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... still wanting , tho ' he lives on theft , Steals much , spends little , yet has nothing left : 184 180 VER . 169. Pretty in amber , & c ] The wit and imagʼry of this paffage has been much and juftly admired . The most detestable things ...
... still wanting , tho ' he lives on theft , Steals much , spends little , yet has nothing left : 184 180 VER . 169. Pretty in amber , & c ] The wit and imagʼry of this paffage has been much and juftly admired . The most detestable things ...
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... still ! So when a Statesman wants a day's defence , Or Envy holds a whole week's war with Senfe , Or fimple pride for flatt'ry makes demands , May dunce by dunce be whistled off my hands ! Bleft be the Great ! for those they take away ...
... still ! So when a Statesman wants a day's defence , Or Envy holds a whole week's war with Senfe , Or fimple pride for flatt'ry makes demands , May dunce by dunce be whistled off my hands ! Bleft be the Great ! for those they take away ...
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... still , Than ridicule all Tafte , blafpheme Quadrille , Abufe the City's best good men in metre , And laugh at Peers that put trust in Peter . n Ev'n thofe you touch not , hate you . -- 40 P. What should ail them ? F. A hundred fmart in ...
... still , Than ridicule all Tafte , blafpheme Quadrille , Abufe the City's best good men in metre , And laugh at Peers that put trust in Peter . n Ev'n thofe you touch not , hate you . -- 40 P. What should ail them ? F. A hundred fmart in ...
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... still before a hen ; Yet hens of Guinea full as good I hold , Except you eat the feathers green and gokl . ' Of carps and mullets why prefer the great , ( Tho ' cut in pieces ere my Lord can eat ) Yet for fmall Turbots fuch efteem ...
... still before a hen ; Yet hens of Guinea full as good I hold , Except you eat the feathers green and gokl . ' Of carps and mullets why prefer the great , ( Tho ' cut in pieces ere my Lord can eat ) Yet for fmall Turbots fuch efteem ...
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Page 49 - Hear this, and tremble! you, who 'scape the Laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave ^/ Shall walk the World, in credit, to his grave.
Page 27 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Page 12 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Page 14 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 4 - They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Page 13 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 167 - Bright through the rubbish of some hundred years ; Command old words, that long have slept, to wake, Words that wise Bacon or...
Page 6 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage!' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Page 20 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence...
Page 41 - My head and heart thus flowing thro' my quill, Verse-man or prose-man, term me which you will, Papist or Protestant, or both between, Like good Erasmus in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory.