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, Band 41754 |
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... ( Some fay his Queen ) was forc'd to speak , or burft . VER . 53. in the MS . VARIATIONS . If you refufe , he goes , as fates incliné , To plague Sir Robert , or to turn Divine . VER . 60. in the former Ed . Cibber and I are luckily no ...
... ( Some fay his Queen ) was forc'd to speak , or burft . VER . 53. in the MS . VARIATIONS . If you refufe , he goes , as fates incliné , To plague Sir Robert , or to turn Divine . VER . 60. in the former Ed . Cibber and I are luckily no ...
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... some days eat : Till grown more frugal in his riper days , 235 240 He paid fome bards with port , and fome with praife , To fome a dry rehearsal was affign'd , And others ( harder still ) he paid in kind . Dryden alone ( what wonder ...
... some days eat : Till grown more frugal in his riper days , 235 240 He paid fome bards with port , and fome with praife , To fome a dry rehearsal was affign'd , And others ( harder still ) he paid in kind . Dryden alone ( what wonder ...
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... Some take a malignant fatisfaction in the attack ; others a foolish pleasure in a literary conflict ; and the far greater part look on with a felfish indif- ference . 300 Who tells whate'er you think , whate'er you say C 2 TO THE ...
... Some take a malignant fatisfaction in the attack ; others a foolish pleasure in a literary conflict ; and the far greater part look on with a felfish indif- ference . 300 Who tells whate'er you think , whate'er you say C 2 TO THE ...
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... some of my Epistles . An " Anfwer from Horace was both more full , and of more Dignity , than any I could have made in my own perfon ; and the Example of much greater Freedom in fo eminent a Divine as Dr. Donne , feem'd a proof with ...
... some of my Epistles . An " Anfwer from Horace was both more full , and of more Dignity , than any I could have made in my own perfon ; and the Example of much greater Freedom in fo eminent a Divine as Dr. Donne , feem'd a proof with ...
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... Some Critics tell us . it is want of tafte to put this line in the mouth of Trebatius . But our Poet confutes this cenfure , by fhewing how well the fenfe of it agrees to his Friend's cha- racter . The Lawyer is cautious and fearful ...
... Some Critics tell us . it is want of tafte to put this line in the mouth of Trebatius . But our Poet confutes this cenfure , by fhewing how well the fenfe of it agrees to his Friend's cha- racter . The Lawyer is cautious and fearful ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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.
Seite 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!
Seite 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.
Seite 14 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 167 - Bright through the rubbish of some hundred years ; Command old words, that long have slept, to wake, Words that wise Bacon or...
Seite 6 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage!' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.