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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Well , but the " Poor -- The Poor have the same itch ; They change their weekly
Barber , weekly News , 155 Prefer a new Japanner , to their shoes , Discharge
their Garrets , move their beds , and run ( They know not whither ) in a Chaise
and ...
Well , but the " Poor -- The Poor have the same itch ; They change their weekly
Barber , weekly News , 155 Prefer a new Japanner , to their shoes , Discharge
their Garrets , move their beds , and run ( They know not whither ) in a Chaise
and ...
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Now times are chang'd , and one • Poetic Itch Has seiz'd the Court and City , poor
and rich : 170 Sons , Sireś , and Grandlives , all will wear the bays , Our Wives
read Milton , and our Daughters Plays , To theatres , and to Rehearfals throng ...
Now times are chang'd , and one • Poetic Itch Has seiz'd the Court and City , poor
and rich : 170 Sons , Sireś , and Grandlives , all will wear the bays , Our Wives
read Milton , and our Daughters Plays , To theatres , and to Rehearfals throng ...
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226. the Ideot and the Poor . ] A foundation for the maintenance of Idiots , and a
Fund for aslifting the Poor , by Jending small sums of money on demand . VER .
229. Not but there are , etc ) Nothing can be more truly humourous or witty than
all ...
226. the Ideot and the Poor . ] A foundation for the maintenance of Idiots , and a
Fund for aslifting the Poor , by Jending small sums of money on demand . VER .
229. Not but there are , etc ) Nothing can be more truly humourous or witty than
all ...
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In Anna's Wars , a Soldier poor and old Had dearly earhod a little purse of gold :
Tir'd with a tedious maret ; one luckless night , 35 He slept , poor dog ! and loft it ,
to a doit . This put the man in such a despʻrate mind , Between revenge , and ...
In Anna's Wars , a Soldier poor and old Had dearly earhod a little purse of gold :
Tir'd with a tedious maret ; one luckless night , 35 He slept , poor dog ! and loft it ,
to a doit . This put the man in such a despʻrate mind , Between revenge , and ...
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Good pretty Linguists ; fo Panurgus was , Yet a poor Gentleman ; all these may
pass By travail . Then , as if he would have sold His tongue , he prais'd it , and
such wonders told , That I was fain to say , If you had liv'd , Sir , Time enough to
have ...
Good pretty Linguists ; fo Panurgus was , Yet a poor Gentleman ; all these may
pass By travail . Then , as if he would have sold His tongue , he prais'd it , and
such wonders told , That I was fain to say , If you had liv'd , Sir , Time enough to
have ...
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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.