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, Volume 41754 |
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... Court ] to attack , in a very extraordinary manner , not only my Writings ( of which , being public , the Public is judge ) but my Perfon , Morals , and Family , whereof , to those who know me not , a truer information may be requifite ...
... Court ] to attack , in a very extraordinary manner , not only my Writings ( of which , being public , the Public is judge ) but my Perfon , Morals , and Family , whereof , to those who know me not , a truer information may be requifite ...
Pagina 9
... court : 115 I cough like Horace , and , tho ' lean , am fhort , 120 Ammon's great fon one shoulder had too high , Such Ovid's nofe , and , " Sir ! you have an Eye- Go on , obliging creatures , make me fee All that disgrac'd my Betters ...
... court : 115 I cough like Horace , and , tho ' lean , am fhort , 120 Ammon's great fon one shoulder had too high , Such Ovid's nofe , and , " Sir ! you have an Eye- Go on , obliging creatures , make me fee All that disgrac'd my Betters ...
Pagina 17
... Courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts , believe , and say my pray'rs ; 265 VER . 251. So when a Statesman & c . ] Notwithstanding this ridicule on the public neceffities of the Great , our Poet was can did enough to confess that they ...
... Courts or great affairs ; I pay my debts , believe , and say my pray'rs ; 265 VER . 251. So when a Statesman & c . ] Notwithstanding this ridicule on the public neceffities of the Great , our Poet was can did enough to confess that they ...
Pagina 18
... Court - fermons , and to birth - day Odes . 280 a By not making the World his School he means , he did not form his fyftem of morality , on the principles or practice of men in business , Curst be the verfe , how well - foe'er it I 18 ...
... Court - fermons , and to birth - day Odes . 280 a By not making the World his School he means , he did not form his fyftem of morality , on the principles or practice of men in business , Curst be the verfe , how well - foe'er it I 18 ...
Pagina 19
... Court , the Wits , the Dunces weep . 285 296 295 VER . 295. Who has the vanity to call you friend , Yet wants the honour , injur'd , to defend ; ] When a great Genius , whose writings have afforded the world much pleasure and ...
... Court , the Wits , the Dunces weep . 285 296 295 VER . 295. Who has the vanity to call you friend , Yet wants the honour , injur'd , to defend ; ] When a great Genius , whose writings have afforded the world much pleasure and ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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!
Pagina 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.
Pagina 14 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 167 - Bright through the rubbish of some hundred years ; Command old words, that long have slept, to wake, Words that wise Bacon or...
Pagina 6 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage!' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.