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 The morals blacken'd when the writings ' scape , The libel'd person , and the
pictur'd lhape ; Abuse , on all he lov'd , or lov'd him , spread , A friend in exile , or
a father , dead ; 355 The whifper , that to greatness Aill too near , Perhaps , yet ...
i The morals blacken'd when the writings ' scape , The libel'd person , and the
pictur'd lhape ; Abuse , on all he lov'd , or lov'd him , spread , A friend in exile , or
a father , dead ; 355 The whifper , that to greatness Aill too near , Perhaps , yet ...
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I 20 for the application or moral of a fable , which needed no explaining ; so that ,
they impair the grace of it , at beft , inferior to his Original . For Horace speaks of
the common people , Populus Romanus , to whom one of Æsop's Fables was ...
I 20 for the application or moral of a fable , which needed no explaining ; so that ,
they impair the grace of it , at beft , inferior to his Original . For Horace speaks of
the common people , Populus Romanus , to whom one of Æsop's Fables was ...
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... as they are called , who include all moral and religious Daties within them .
Whereas their true original sense is much more confined , being a short fummary
of duty fitted for a fingle People , upon a particular cocafion , and to serve
transitory ...
... as they are called , who include all moral and religious Daties within them .
Whereas their true original sense is much more confined , being a short fummary
of duty fitted for a fingle People , upon a particular cocafion , and to serve
transitory ...
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You grow correct , that once with Rapture writ , And are , besides , too moral for a
Wit . VARIATION S. After ver , 2. in the MS . You don't , I hope , pretend to quit the
trade , Because you think your reputation made : Like good ** of whom so much ...
You grow correct , that once with Rapture writ , And are , besides , too moral for a
Wit . VARIATION S. After ver , 2. in the MS . You don't , I hope , pretend to quit the
trade , Because you think your reputation made : Like good ** of whom so much ...
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Beldes , you grow too moral for a Wit .. VER . 12. Bubo observes , ] Some guilty
person very fond of making such an observation . VER , 14. H - ggins ] Formerly
Jaylor of the Fleet prison , enriched himself by many exactions , for which he was
...
Beldes , you grow too moral for a Wit .. VER . 12. Bubo observes , ] Some guilty
person very fond of making such an observation . VER , 14. H - ggins ] Formerly
Jaylor of the Fleet prison , enriched himself by many exactions , for which he was
...
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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.