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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Yet soft by nature , more a dupe than wit , Sappho can tell you how this man was
bit : This dreaded Sat'rift Dennis will confess 370 Foe to his pride , but friend to
his distress : So humble , he has knockd at Tibbald's door , Has drunk with Cibber
...
Yet soft by nature , more a dupe than wit , Sappho can tell you how this man was
bit : This dreaded Sat'rift Dennis will confess 370 Foe to his pride , but friend to
his distress : So humble , he has knockd at Tibbald's door , Has drunk with Cibber
...
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... whose strange crimes no Canonist can tell In what Commandment's large
contents they dwell , mentators , as they are called , who include all moral and
religious Daties within them . Whereas their true original sense is much more
confined ...
... whose strange crimes no Canonist can tell In what Commandment's large
contents they dwell , mentators , as they are called , who include all moral and
religious Daties within them . Whereas their true original sense is much more
confined ...
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... H he had liv'd then ; and without help dies , When next the Prentices ' gainst
ftrangers rise ; One whom the watch at noon lets scarce go One , to whom the
examining Justice fure would cry , şir , by your Priesthood tell me what you are ?
... H he had liv'd then ; and without help dies , When next the Prentices ' gainst
ftrangers rise ; One whom the watch at noon lets scarce go One , to whom the
examining Justice fure would cry , şir , by your Priesthood tell me what you are ?
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One whom the mob , when next we find or make A popish plot , shall for a Jesuit
take , 35 And the wife Justice starting from his chair Cry , By your Priesthood tell
me what you are ? Such was the wight : Th'apparel on his back , Tho ' coarse ...
One whom the mob , when next we find or make A popish plot , shall for a Jesuit
take , 35 And the wife Justice starting from his chair Cry , By your Priesthood tell
me what you are ? Such was the wight : Th'apparel on his back , Tho ' coarse ...
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I tell ye , fool , there's nothing in't : “ ' Tis Venus , Venus gives these arms ; “ In
Dryden's Virgil see the print , CA “ Come , if you'll be a quiet soul , “ That dares tell
neither Truth nor Lies , " I'll lift you in the harmless roll Of those that fing of these ...
I tell ye , fool , there's nothing in't : “ ' Tis Venus , Venus gives these arms ; “ In
Dryden's Virgil see the print , CA “ Come , if you'll be a quiet soul , “ That dares tell
neither Truth nor Lies , " I'll lift you in the harmless roll Of those that fing of these ...
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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.