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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And He , who now to sense , now nonsense leaning , Means not , but blunders
round about a meaning : And He , whose fuftian's so sublimely bad , It is not
Poetry , but prose run mad : All these , my modeft Satire bad translate , And own'd
that ...
And He , who now to sense , now nonsense leaning , Means not , but blunders
round about a meaning : And He , whose fuftian's so sublimely bad , It is not
Poetry , but prose run mad : All these , my modeft Satire bad translate , And own'd
that ...
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My head and heart thus flowing thro ' my quill , Verse - man or Prose - man , term
me which Papift or Protestant , or both between , 65 Like good Erasmus in an
honest Mean , In moderation placing all my glory , While Tories call me Whig ,
and ...
My head and heart thus flowing thro ' my quill , Verse - man or Prose - man , term
me which Papift or Protestant , or both between , 65 Like good Erasmus in an
honest Mean , In moderation placing all my glory , While Tories call me Whig ,
and ...
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These write to Lords , some mean reward to get , As needy beggars fing at doors
for meat . 26 Those write because all write , and so have still Excuse for writing ,
and for writing ill . Wretched indeed ! but far more wretched yet Is he who makes ...
These write to Lords , some mean reward to get , As needy beggars fing at doors
for meat . 26 Those write because all write , and so have still Excuse for writing ,
and for writing ill . Wretched indeed ! but far more wretched yet Is he who makes ...
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You miss my I mean the most acute 70 And perfect Speaker ? --- Onslow , past
dispute . " But , Sir , of writers ? “ Swift , for closer ftyle , “ But Ho ** y for a period of
a mile . ” . Why yes , ' tis granted , these indeed may pass : Good common ...
You miss my I mean the most acute 70 And perfect Speaker ? --- Onslow , past
dispute . " But , Sir , of writers ? “ Swift , for closer ftyle , “ But Ho ** y for a period of
a mile . ” . Why yes , ' tis granted , these indeed may pass : Good common ...
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... Chorus fings , And bark at Honour not confer'd by Kings ; Let Flatt'rg fick'ning
see the Incenfe rise , Sweet to the World , and grateful to the Skies : 245 Truth
guards the Poet , sanctifies the line , And makes immortal , Verse as mean as
mine .
... Chorus fings , And bark at Honour not confer'd by Kings ; Let Flatt'rg fick'ning
see the Incenfe rise , Sweet to the World , and grateful to the Skies : 245 Truth
guards the Poet , sanctifies the line , And makes immortal , Verse as mean as
mine .
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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.