The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Satires, &c |
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They both spin ; not from the head [ reason ] but from the guts ( pafsions and
prejudices ] and fuch a thread that can entangle none but creatures weaker than
themselves . Ver . 98 . free - mafons Moor ? ] He was of this society , and
frequently ...
They both spin ; not from the head [ reason ] but from the guts ( pafsions and
prejudices ] and fuch a thread that can entangle none but creatures weaker than
themselves . Ver . 98 . free - mafons Moor ? ] He was of this society , and
frequently ...
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The reason is plain . He gave the latter but their due ; and the other thought they
had no more . Ver . 180 . - a Perfien tale . ] Amb . Philips translated a Book ,
çalled the Persian tales . Ve Run those heroit plain . He nom And He , whose
fustian ...
The reason is plain . He gave the latter but their due ; and the other thought they
had no more . Ver . 180 . - a Perfien tale . ] Amb . Philips translated a Book ,
çalled the Persian tales . Ve Run those heroit plain . He nom And He , whose
fustian ...
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I gave them but their due . ] Our Author always found those he commended less
sensible than those he reproved . The reason is plain . He gave the latter but their
due ; and the other thought they had no more . Ver . 180 . - - - a Persian tale .
I gave them but their due . ] Our Author always found those he commended less
sensible than those he reproved . The reason is plain . He gave the latter but their
due ; and the other thought they had no more . Ver . 180 . - - - a Persian tale .
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... to make him amends , this fame Public , when let into the secret , would , for
some time after , fuffer no poem , with a moral title , to pass for any one ' s but his .
So the Essay on human Life , the Ejay on Reason , and many others of a worse ...
... to make him amends , this fame Public , when let into the secret , would , for
some time after , fuffer no poem , with a moral title , to pass for any one ' s but his .
So the Essay on human Life , the Ejay on Reason , and many others of a worse ...
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And indeed there is not in the world a greater error , than that which Fools are so
apt to fall into , and Knaves with good reason to encourage , the mistaking a
Satirist for a Libeller ; whereas to a true Satirist nothing is so odious as a Libeller ,
for ...
And indeed there is not in the world a greater error , than that which Fools are so
apt to fall into , and Knaves with good reason to encourage , the mistaking a
Satirist for a Libeller ; whereas to a true Satirist nothing is so odious as a Libeller ,
for ...
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Seite 8 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage!' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Seite 22 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Seite 24 - Fed with soft Dedication all day long, Horace and he went hand in hand in song. His library, where busts of poets dead...
Seite 271 - Seen him, uncumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. Would he oblige me? let me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind.
Seite 7 - And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove?
Seite 27 - Yet why? that father held it for a rule, It was a sin to call our neighbour fool: That harmless mother thought no wife a whore: Hear this, and spare his family, James Moore! Unspotted names, and memorable long! If there be force in virtue, or in song.
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.
Seite 10 - It is" the slaver kills, and not the bite. A fool quite angry is quite innocent : Alas ! 'tis ten times worse when they repent. One dedicates in high heroic prose, And ridicules beyond a hundred foes : One from all Grub-street will my fame defend, And, more abusive, calls himself my friend. This prints my letters, that expects a bribe, And others roar aloud,
Seite 29 - 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 8 - Lintot, dull rogue! will think your price too much." "Not, sir, if you revise it, and retouch.