The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ... To which is Prefixed a Life of the AuthorJ. Walker, 1806 - 651 Seiten |
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... dulness meet . Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit , And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit : As on the land while here the ocean gains , In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails ...
... dulness meet . Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit , And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit : As on the land while here the ocean gains , In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails ...
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... Dulness is ever apt to magnify . Some foreign writers , some our own despise ; The ancients only , or the moderns prize : Thus wit , like faith , by each man is applied To one small sect , and all are damn'd beside . Meanly they seek ...
... Dulness is ever apt to magnify . Some foreign writers , some our own despise ; The ancients only , or the moderns prize : Thus wit , like faith , by each man is applied To one small sect , and all are damn'd beside . Meanly they seek ...
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... dulness joins with quality ; A constant critic at the great man's board , To fetch and carry nonsense for my lord . What woful stuff this madrigal would be , In some starv'd hackney sonnetteer , or me ! But let a lord once own the happy ...
... dulness joins with quality ; A constant critic at the great man's board , To fetch and carry nonsense for my lord . What woful stuff this madrigal would be , In some starv'd hackney sonnetteer , or me ! But let a lord once own the happy ...
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... times . No pardon vilé obscenity should find , Though wit and art conspire to move your mind ; But dulness with obscenity must prove As shameful sure as impotence in love . In the fat age of pleasure , wealth , and 62 ESSAY ON CRITICISM .
... times . No pardon vilé obscenity should find , Though wit and art conspire to move your mind ; But dulness with obscenity must prove As shameful sure as impotence in love . In the fat age of pleasure , wealth , and 62 ESSAY ON CRITICISM .
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... dulness lies , And in thy bosom lurks in thought's disguise ; Thou varnisher of fools , and cheat of all the wise ! Yet thy indulgence is by both confess'd ; Folly by thee lies sleeping in the breast , And ' tis in thee at last that ...
... dulness lies , And in thy bosom lurks in thought's disguise ; Thou varnisher of fools , and cheat of all the wise ! Yet thy indulgence is by both confess'd ; Folly by thee lies sleeping in the breast , And ' tis in thee at last that ...
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