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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Seiz'd and ty'd down to judge , how wretched I ! Who can't be filent , and who will
not lye : 1 ) To laugh , were want of goodness and of grace , 35 And to be grave ,
exceeds all Pow'r of face . I fit with fad civility , I read With honest anguish , and ...
Seiz'd and ty'd down to judge , how wretched I ! Who can't be filent , and who will
not lye : 1 ) To laugh , were want of goodness and of grace , 35 And to be grave ,
exceeds all Pow'r of face . I fit with fad civility , I read With honest anguish , and ...
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T. Attamen et justum poteras et scribere fortem , Scipiadam ut sapiens Lucilius .
For conciseness , when it is clear ( as in this place ) gives the highft grace to
elegance of expresión . But whát follows is as much above the Original , as this
falls ...
T. Attamen et justum poteras et scribere fortem , Scipiadam ut sapiens Lucilius .
For conciseness , when it is clear ( as in this place ) gives the highft grace to
elegance of expresión . But whát follows is as much above the Original , as this
falls ...
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110 • Get Place and Wealth , if possible , with grace ; “ If not , by any means get
Wealth and Place . For what ? to have a ' Box where Eunuchs fing , 105 And
foremost in the Circle eye a King . Oru he , who bids thee face with steady view
Proud ...
110 • Get Place and Wealth , if possible , with grace ; “ If not , by any means get
Wealth and Place . For what ? to have a ' Box where Eunuchs fing , 105 And
foremost in the Circle eye a King . Oru he , who bids thee face with steady view
Proud ...
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321 Learn to live well , or fairly make your will ; You've play'd , and lov'd , and eat
, and drank your fill : Walk fober off ; before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on ,
and shoves you from the stage : Leave such to trifle with more grace and case ...
321 Learn to live well , or fairly make your will ; You've play'd , and lov'd , and eat
, and drank your fill : Walk fober off ; before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on ,
and shoves you from the stage : Leave such to trifle with more grace and case ...
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The Muse's wing shall brush you all away : All his Grace preaches , all kis
Lordfhip fings , 224 All that makes Saints of Queens , and Gods of Kings , All , all
but Trath , drops dead - born from the Prefs , Like the last Gazette , or the last
Address .
The Muse's wing shall brush you all away : All his Grace preaches , all kis
Lordfhip fings , 224 All that makes Saints of Queens , and Gods of Kings , All , all
but Trath , drops dead - born from the Prefs , Like the last Gazette , or the last
Address .
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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.