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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But he who hurts a harmless neighbour's peace , Insults fall'n worth , or Beauty in
distress , Who loves a Lye , lame flander helps about , Who writes a Libel , or who
copies out : 296 That Fop , whose pride affects a patron's name , Yet absent ...
But he who hurts a harmless neighbour's peace , Insults fall'n worth , or Beauty in
distress , Who loves a Lye , lame flander helps about , Who writes a Libel , or who
copies out : 296 That Fop , whose pride affects a patron's name , Yet absent ...
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... and BRUNSWICK crowd the verse , Rend with tremendous found your ears
asunder , 25 With Gun , Drum , Trumpet , Blunderbuss , and Thunder ? Or nobly
wild , with Budgel's fire and force , Paint Angels trembling round his falling Horse
?
... and BRUNSWICK crowd the verse , Rend with tremendous found your ears
asunder , 25 With Gun , Drum , Trumpet , Blunderbuss , and Thunder ? Or nobly
wild , with Budgel's fire and force , Paint Angels trembling round his falling Horse
?
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To Hounslow heath I point and Banfted - down , Thence comes your mutton , and
these chicks my own : From yon old walnut - tree a show'r shall fall ; 145 And
grapes , long ling'ring on my only wall , And , figs from standard and espalier join
...
To Hounslow heath I point and Banfted - down , Thence comes your mutton , and
these chicks my own : From yon old walnut - tree a show'r shall fall ; 145 And
grapes , long ling'ring on my only wall , And , figs from standard and espalier join
...
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This Vault of Air , this congregated Ball , 5 Self - center'd Sun , and Stars that rise
and fall , There are , my Friend ! whofe philofophic eyes . Look thro ' , and trust the
Ruler with his skies , To him commit the hour , the day , the year , And view this ...
This Vault of Air , this congregated Ball , 5 Self - center'd Sun , and Stars that rise
and fall , There are , my Friend ! whofe philofophic eyes . Look thro ' , and trust the
Ruler with his skies , To him commit the hour , the day , the year , And view this ...
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... She's still the same , belov'd , contented thing , 140 Vice is undone , if she
forgets her Birth , And stoops from Angels to the Dregs of Earth : But ' tis the Fall
degrades her to a Whore ; Let Greatness own her , and she's mean no more , 145
Her ...
... She's still the same , belov'd , contented thing , 140 Vice is undone , if she
forgets her Birth , And stoops from Angels to the Dregs of Earth : But ' tis the Fall
degrades her to a Whore ; Let Greatness own her , and she's mean no more , 145
Her ...
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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.