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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Peace to all fuch ! but were there One whose fires True Genius kindles , and fair
Fame inspires ; Bleft with each talent and each art to please , 195 And born to
write , converse , and live with ease : Should such a man , too fond to rule alone ...
Peace to all fuch ! but were there One whose fires True Genius kindles , and fair
Fame inspires ; Bleft with each talent and each art to please , 195 And born to
write , converse , and live with ease : Should such a man , too fond to rule alone ...
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Walk with respect behind , while we at ease Weave laurel Crowns , and take .
what names we please , 6. My dear Tibullus ! ” if that will not do , « Let me be
Horace , and be Ovid you : 27 140 Fit Mimnermus , et optivo cognomine crescit .
Walk with respect behind , while we at ease Weave laurel Crowns , and take .
what names we please , 6. My dear Tibullus ! ” if that will not do , « Let me be
Horace , and be Ovid you : 27 140 Fit Mimnermus , et optivo cognomine crescit .
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... refine , But show no mercy to an empty line : Then polith all , with so much life
and ease , You think ' tis Nature , and a knack to please : “ But ease in writing
flows from Art , not chance ; " As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance .
... refine , But show no mercy to an empty line : Then polith all , with so much life
and ease , You think ' tis Nature , and a knack to please : “ But ease in writing
flows from Art , not chance ; " As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance .
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If , when the more you drink , the more you crave ; You tell the Doctor ; when the
more you have , The more you want , why not with equal ease Confess as well
your Folly , as Disease ? 215 The heart resolves this matter in a trice , “ Men only
...
If , when the more you drink , the more you crave ; You tell the Doctor ; when the
more you have , The more you want , why not with equal ease Confess as well
your Folly , as Disease ? 215 The heart resolves this matter in a trice , “ Men only
...
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The ease of Cromwelt in the civil war of England ; and ( ver . 229. ) of Louis XIV .
in his conquest of the Low Countries . VER . 231. Nor Boilear turk the Fearbet to a
Star . } See his Ode on Namus ; where ( to use his own words ) " il a fait un Not ...
The ease of Cromwelt in the civil war of England ; and ( ver . 229. ) of Louis XIV .
in his conquest of the Low Countries . VER . 231. Nor Boilear turk the Fearbet to a
Star . } See his Ode on Namus ; where ( to use his own words ) " il a fait un Not ...
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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.