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His Library , ( where bufts of Poets dead And a true Pindar stood without a head )
Receiv'd of wits an undistinguish'd race , Who first his judgment ask'd , and then a
place : Much they extoll'd his pictures , much his feat , And flatter'd ev'ry day ...
His Library , ( where bufts of Poets dead And a true Pindar stood without a head )
Receiv'd of wits an undistinguish'd race , Who first his judgment ask'd , and then a
place : Much they extoll'd his pictures , much his feat , And flatter'd ev'ry day ...
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... and battle for the State , Free as young Lyttelton , her Cause pursue , Still true
to Virtue , • and as warm as true : Sometimes with Ariftippus , or St. Paul , Indulge
my candor , and grow all to all ; Back to my native Moderation Slide , And win my
...
... and battle for the State , Free as young Lyttelton , her Cause pursue , Still true
to Virtue , • and as warm as true : Sometimes with Ariftippus , or St. Paul , Indulge
my candor , and grow all to all ; Back to my native Moderation Slide , And win my
...
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That is , of the Virtuofi ; whose science you are to buy for that purpose : for true
taste , which is from nature , comes of itself . And how are you to use it ? Not to
cure you of that bane of life , admi . ration , but to raise and inflame it , by doubling
...
That is , of the Virtuofi ; whose science you are to buy for that purpose : for true
taste , which is from nature , comes of itself . And how are you to use it ? Not to
cure you of that bane of life , admi . ration , but to raise and inflame it , by doubling
...
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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 ends . But these punish themselves . The infolence Of Cofcus , Sat. II .
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 ends . But these punish themselves . The infolence Of Cofcus , Sat. II .
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A scribler , whose only chance for reputation is the falling in with the fashion , is
apt to employ this infamous expedient for the preservation of his fleeting
existence . But a true Genius could not do a foolisher thing , or sooner defeat his
own aim .
A scribler , whose only chance for reputation is the falling in with the fashion , is
apt to employ this infamous expedient for the preservation of his fleeting
existence . But a true Genius could not do a foolisher thing , or sooner defeat his
own aim .
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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.
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| Titel | 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 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, Alexander Pope |
| Autor/in | Alexander Pope |
| Veröffentlicht | 1754 |
| Original von | Oxford University |
| Digitalisiert | 22. Sept. 2006 |
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