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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Page 121
... Ease ; ' Sprat , Carew , Sedley , and a hundred more , ( Like twinkling ftars the Mifcellanies o'er ) One Simile , that P. folitary shines In the dry desert of a thousand lines , 110 Or lengthen'd Thought that gleams through many a page ...
... Ease ; ' Sprat , Carew , Sedley , and a hundred more , ( Like twinkling ftars the Mifcellanies o'er ) One Simile , that P. folitary shines In the dry desert of a thousand lines , 110 Or lengthen'd Thought that gleams through many a page ...
Page 163
... ease Weave laurel Crowns , and take what names we please , " My dear Tibullus ! " if that will not do , " Let me be Horace , and be Ovid you : 140 Fit Mimnermus , et optivo cognomine crefcit . Multa fero M 2 Ep . II . OF HORACE . 163.
... ease Weave laurel Crowns , and take what names we please , " My dear Tibullus ! " if that will not do , " Let me be Horace , and be Ovid you : 140 Fit Mimnermus , et optivo cognomine crefcit . Multa fero M 2 Ep . II . OF HORACE . 163.
Page 167
... ease in writing flows from Art , not chance ; " As thofe move eafieft who have learn'd to dance . 9 If fuch the plague and pains to write by rule , 180 Better ( fay I ) be pleas'd , and play the fool ; Call , if you will , bad rhyming a ...
... ease in writing flows from Art , not chance ; " As thofe move eafieft who have learn'd to dance . 9 If fuch the plague and pains to write by rule , 180 Better ( fay I ) be pleas'd , and play the fool ; Call , if you will , bad rhyming a ...
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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.