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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Abuse the City's best good men in metre ] The best good Man , a City phrase for
the ricbeft . Metre — not used here , purely to help the verse , but to thew what it is
a citizen esteems the greatest aggravation of the offence . VIR . 41. W bat foould ...
Abuse the City's best good men in metre ] The best good Man , a City phrase for
the ricbeft . Metre — not used here , purely to help the verse , but to thew what it is
a citizen esteems the greatest aggravation of the offence . VIR . 41. W bat foould ...
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... to all States belongs , Made of th ' accents , and best phrase of all thefe , He
speaks one language . If strange meats displease , Scarce was I enter'd , when ,
behold ! there 196 SATIRES OF DR . DONNE Sat. IV :
... to all States belongs , Made of th ' accents , and best phrase of all thefe , He
speaks one language . If strange meats displease , Scarce was I enter'd , when ,
behold ! there 196 SATIRES OF DR . DONNE Sat. IV :
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This thing has traveld , speaks each language too , And knows what's fit for ev'ry
state to do ; Of whose best phrase and courtly accent joind , He forms one tongue
, exotic and refin'd . 40 45 He stopt me , and said , Nay your Apostles O 3 Sat.
This thing has traveld , speaks each language too , And knows what's fit for ev'ry
state to do ; Of whose best phrase and courtly accent joind , He forms one tongue
, exotic and refin'd . 40 45 He stopt me , and said , Nay your Apostles O 3 Sat.
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That all the shot of dulness now must be From this thy blunderbuss discharg'd on
me ! 65 Permit ( he cries ) no ftranger to your fame To crave your sentiment if ' s
your name . What Speech esteem you most ? “ The King's , said 1. " But the best ...
That all the shot of dulness now must be From this thy blunderbuss discharg'd on
me ! 65 Permit ( he cries ) no ftranger to your fame To crave your sentiment if ' s
your name . What Speech esteem you most ? “ The King's , said 1. " But the best ...
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... survey their limbs by Durer's rules , 240 Of all beau - kind the best proportion'd
fools ! del ort 1 lovers , he means to infinuate that her colours are coarsely laid on
, and her borrowed hair loofely woven . VIR . 240. Durer's rules , } Albert Durer .
... survey their limbs by Durer's rules , 240 Of all beau - kind the best proportion'd
fools ! del ort 1 lovers , he means to infinuate that her colours are coarsely laid on
, and her borrowed hair loofely woven . VIR . 240. Durer's rules , } Albert Durer .
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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.