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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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme , Happy ! to catch me , just at
Dinner - time . Is there a Parson , much be - mus'd in beer , 15 A maudlin Poetess
, a rhyming Peer , A Clerk , foredoom'd his father's foul to cross , Who pens a ...
Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme , Happy ! to catch me , just at
Dinner - time . Is there a Parson , much be - mus'd in beer , 15 A maudlin Poetess
, a rhyming Peer , A Clerk , foredoom'd his father's foul to cross , Who pens a ...
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How easy ev'ry labour it pursues ? How coming to the Poet ev'ry Muse ? Not but
we may exceed , some holy time , 85 Or tir'd in search of Truth , or search of
Rhyme ; Ill health some just indulgence may engage , And more the sickness of
long ...
How easy ev'ry labour it pursues ? How coming to the Poet ev'ry Muse ? Not but
we may exceed , some holy time , 85 Or tir'd in search of Truth , or search of
Rhyme ; Ill health some just indulgence may engage , And more the sickness of
long ...
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185 ( Should Ripley venture , all the world would smile ) But those who cannot
write , and those who can , AU rhyme , and scrawl , and scribble , to a man . Yet ,
Sir , " reflect , the mischief is not great ; These Madmen never hurt the Church or ...
185 ( Should Ripley venture , all the world would smile ) But those who cannot
write , and those who can , AU rhyme , and scrawl , and scribble , to a man . Yet ,
Sir , " reflect , the mischief is not great ; These Madmen never hurt the Church or ...
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... And i Afia's Tyrants tremble at your Throne Butk Verse , alas ! your Majesty
disdains ; And I'm not us'd to Panegyric strains : 405 The Zeal of Fools offends at
any time , But most of all , the Zeal of Fools in rhyme , Besides , a fate attends on
all I ...
... And i Afia's Tyrants tremble at your Throne Butk Verse , alas ! your Majesty
disdains ; And I'm not us'd to Panegyric strains : 405 The Zeal of Fools offends at
any time , But most of all , the Zeal of Fools in rhyme , Besides , a fate attends on
all I ...
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... fomething ev'ry day , At last they steal us from ourselves away ; In one our
Frolics , one Amusements end , In one a Mistrefs drops , in one a Friend : 75 This
fubde Thief of life , this paltry Time , What will it leave me , if it snatch my rhyme ?
... fomething ev'ry day , At last they steal us from ourselves away ; In one our
Frolics , one Amusements end , In one a Mistrefs drops , in one a Friend : 75 This
fubde Thief of life , this paltry Time , What will it leave me , if it snatch my rhyme ?
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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.