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 grave Epifles , etc. ) . The legal objection is here more juftly and decently
taken off than in the Original . Horace evades the force of it with a quibble , Efto ,
fiquis mala ; sed ' bona fi quis . But the Imitator's grave Epißles fhew the satire to
be a ...
But grave Epifles , etc. ) . The legal objection is here more juftly and decently
taken off than in the Original . Horace evades the force of it with a quibble , Efto ,
fiquis mala ; sed ' bona fi quis . But the Imitator's grave Epißles fhew the satire to
be a ...
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One Tragic fentence if I dare deride , Which Betterton's grave action dignify'd , Or
well - mouth'd Booth with emphasis proclaims . ( Tho ' but , perhaps , a mufter -
roll of Names ) How will our Fathers rise up in a rage , 125 And swear , all fame is
...
One Tragic fentence if I dare deride , Which Betterton's grave action dignify'd , Or
well - mouth'd Booth with emphasis proclaims . ( Tho ' but , perhaps , a mufter -
roll of Names ) How will our Fathers rise up in a rage , 125 And swear , all fame is
...
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Like a wedge in a block , wring to the barre , Bearing like asses , and more
shameless farre Than carted whores , lye to the grave Judge ; for Bastardy
abounds not in King's titles , nor Simony and Sodomy in Church - men's lives , As
these ...
Like a wedge in a block , wring to the barre , Bearing like asses , and more
shameless farre Than carted whores , lye to the grave Judge ; for Bastardy
abounds not in King's titles , nor Simony and Sodomy in Church - men's lives , As
these ...
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So - Satire is no more > I feel it die No Gazetteer more innocent than I And let , a
God's - name , ev'ry Fool and Knave 85 Be grac'd thro ' Life , and flatter'd in his
Grave . F. Why so ? if Satire knows its Time and Place , You still may lash the ...
So - Satire is no more > I feel it die No Gazetteer more innocent than I And let , a
God's - name , ev'ry Fool and Knave 85 Be grac'd thro ' Life , and flatter'd in his
Grave . F. Why so ? if Satire knows its Time and Place , You still may lash the ...
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235 There , other Trophies deck the truly brave , Than such as Anftis cafts into the
Grave ; Far other Stars than * and * * wear , And may descend to Mordington from
STAIR : ( Such as on Hough's unfully'd Mitre fhine , 240 Or beam , good Digby ...
235 There , other Trophies deck the truly brave , Than such as Anftis cafts into the
Grave ; Far other Stars than * and * * wear , And may descend to Mordington from
STAIR : ( Such as on Hough's unfully'd Mitre fhine , 240 Or beam , good Digby ...
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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.