The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &cJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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Pagina 28
... thought , tho ' all the prudent chid ; He writ no Libels , but my Lady did : Great odds in am'rous or poetic game , Where Woman's is the fin , and Man's the fhame . NOTES . 37 ° VER . 374. ten years ] It was fo long after many libels ...
... thought , tho ' all the prudent chid ; He writ no Libels , but my Lady did : Great odds in am'rous or poetic game , Where Woman's is the fin , and Man's the fhame . NOTES . 37 ° VER . 374. ten years ] It was fo long after many libels ...
Pagina 29
... thought to come from a Nobleman ) had dropt an al- lufion to that pitiful untruth , in a paper called an Epiftle to a Doctor of Divinity : And the following line , Hard as thy Heart , and as thy Birth obscure , had fallen from a like ...
... thought to come from a Nobleman ) had dropt an al- lufion to that pitiful untruth , in a paper called an Epiftle to a Doctor of Divinity : And the following line , Hard as thy Heart , and as thy Birth obscure , had fallen from a like ...
Pagina 30
... thought no wife a whore : Hear this , and fpare his family , James Moore ! Unfpotted names , and memorable long ! If there be force in Virtue , or in Song . Of gentle blood ( part shed in Honour's cause , While yet in Britain Honour had ...
... thought no wife a whore : Hear this , and fpare his family , James Moore ! Unfpotted names , and memorable long ! If there be force in Virtue , or in Song . Of gentle blood ( part shed in Honour's cause , While yet in Britain Honour had ...
Pagina 31
... thought , explain the asking eye , And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like thefe if length of days attend , May Heav'n , to bless those days , preserve my friend , VARIATIONS . After 405. in the MS . And of myself , too ...
... thought , explain the asking eye , And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like thefe if length of days attend , May Heav'n , to bless those days , preserve my friend , VARIATIONS . After 405. in the MS . And of myself , too ...
Pagina 43
... thought . Montagne had many qualities , that have gained him the love and efteem of his Readers : The other had one , which always gain'd him the favourable attention of his Hearers . For , as a celebrated Roman Orator observes ...
... thought . Montagne had many qualities , that have gained him the love and efteem of his Readers : The other had one , which always gain'd him the favourable attention of his Hearers . For , as a celebrated Roman Orator observes ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 18 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Pagina 17 - 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 51 - 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 243 - Before her dance; behind her crawl the Old! See thronging Millions to the Pagod run, And offer Country, Parent, Wife, or Son! Hear her black Trumpet thro' the Land proclaim, That "Not to be corrupted is the Shame.
Pagina 19 - d by ev'ry quill ; Fed with soft dedication all day long, Horace and he went hand in hand in song.
Pagina 234 - Seen him, uncumber'd with the Venal tribe, Smile without Art, and win without a Bribe. Would he oblige me ? let me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind.
Pagina 6 - 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 30 - Bestia's from the throne. Born to no pride, inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious through his age. No courts he saw, no suits would ever try, Nor dar'd an oath, nor hazarded a lie.
Pagina 244 - Are what ten thousand envy and adore : All, all look up with reverential awe, At crimes that 'scape or triumph o'er the law ; While truth, worth, wisdom, daily they decry : Nothing is sacred now but villainy.
Pagina 157 - Besides, a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praise they say I bite. A vile encomium doubly ridicules : There's nothing blackens like the ink of fools. If true, a woful likeness ; and, if lies, ' Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.