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 4 |
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Yet why ? that Father held it for a rule , It was a fin to call our neighbour fool : That
harmless Mother thought no wife a whore : Hear this , and spare his family ,
Fames Moore ! 385 Unspotted names , and memorable long ! If there be force in
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Yet why ? that Father held it for a rule , It was a fin to call our neighbour fool : That
harmless Mother thought no wife a whore : Hear this , and spare his family ,
Fames Moore ! 385 Unspotted names , and memorable long ! If there be force in
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1 • Time was , a fober Englishman would knock His servants up , and rise by five
o'clock , Inftru & t his family in ev'ry rule , And send his Wife to church , his Son to
School . To'worship like his Fathers , was his care ; 165 To teach their frugal ...
1 • Time was , a fober Englishman would knock His servants up , and rise by five
o'clock , Inftru & t his family in ev'ry rule , And send his Wife to church , his Son to
School . To'worship like his Fathers , was his care ; 165 To teach their frugal ...
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... Fond of his Friend , and civil to his Wife ; Not quite a mad - man , tho ' a pasty
fell , 190 And much too wife to walk into a well , deprived us of . For it is in poetry
as in painting , the most delicate touches go forft ; and , what is worse , they agree
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... Fond of his Friend , and civil to his Wife ; Not quite a mad - man , tho ' a pasty
fell , 190 And much too wife to walk into a well , deprived us of . For it is in poetry
as in painting , the most delicate touches go forft ; and , what is worse , they agree
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155 Like a big wife at light of loathsome meat Ready to caft , I yawn , I figh , and
sweat , Then as a licens'd spy , whom nothing can Silence or hurt , he libels the
great Man ; Swears ev'ry place entail'd for years to come , 160 In sure fucceffion
to ...
155 Like a big wife at light of loathsome meat Ready to caft , I yawn , I figh , and
sweat , Then as a licens'd spy , whom nothing can Silence or hurt , he libels the
great Man ; Swears ev'ry place entail'd for years to come , 160 In sure fucceffion
to ...
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... a Friend in private life , And was , besides , a Tyrant to his Wife . But , pray ,
when others praise him , do I blame ? Call Verres , Wolsey , any odious name ?
135 VIR . 129. Spirit of Arnall ! ] Look for him in his place . Dunc . B. ii . ver . 315 .
... a Friend in private life , And was , besides , a Tyrant to his Wife . But , pray ,
when others praise him , do I blame ? Call Verres , Wolsey , any odious name ?
135 VIR . 129. Spirit of Arnall ! ] Look for him in his place . Dunc . B. ii . ver . 315 .
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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.