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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I would have fome of them know , it was owing to the request of the learned and
candid Friend to whom it is inscribed , that I make not as free use of theirs as they
have done of mine . However , I Ahall have this advantage , and honour , on my ...
I would have fome of them know , it was owing to the request of the learned and
candid Friend to whom it is inscribed , that I make not as free use of theirs as they
have done of mine . However , I Ahall have this advantage , and honour , on my ...
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Tim'rous by nature , of the Rich in awe , “ I come to Council learned in the Law :
You'll give me , like a friend both sage and free , Advice ; and ( as you use )
without a Fee . F. ' I'd write no more . P. Not write ? but then I think , And for my
soul I ...
Tim'rous by nature , of the Rich in awe , “ I come to Council learned in the Law :
You'll give me , like a friend both sage and free , Advice ; and ( as you use )
without a Fee . F. ' I'd write no more . P. Not write ? but then I think , And for my
soul I ...
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... and if you can , admire the state Of beaming diamonds , and reflected plate ;
Procure a Taste to double the surprize , 30 And gaze m Parian Charms with
learned eyes : k on speaks here of false taste , as appears by his directions how
to get ...
... and if you can , admire the state Of beaming diamonds , and reflected plate ;
Procure a Taste to double the surprize , 30 And gaze m Parian Charms with
learned eyes : k on speaks here of false taste , as appears by his directions how
to get ...
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In ev'ry Public Virtue we excell : .45 We build , we paint , ° we fing , we dance as
well , And P learned Athens to our art must stoop , Could she behold us tumbling
thro ' a hoop . If ” Time improve our Wit as well as Wine , Say at what grows ...
In ev'ry Public Virtue we excell : .45 We build , we paint , ° we fing , we dance as
well , And P learned Athens to our art must stoop , Could she behold us tumbling
thro ' a hoop . If ” Time improve our Wit as well as Wine , Say at what grows ...
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Serving to explain and justify divers Passages in the Divine Legation , objected to
by those learned Writers . Part I. Price 2 s . 6 d . Remarks on several occasional
Reflexions . Part In anfwer to the Rev. Doctors Stebbing and Sykes . Serving to ...
Serving to explain and justify divers Passages in the Divine Legation , objected to
by those learned Writers . Part I. Price 2 s . 6 d . Remarks on several occasional
Reflexions . Part In anfwer to the Rev. Doctors Stebbing and Sykes . Serving to ...
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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.