The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &cJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... half a Crown , Juft writes to make his barrenness appear , And strains from hard - bound brains , eight lines a year ; He , who still wanting , tho ' he lives on theft , Steals much , fpends little , yet has nothing left : 184 And He ...
... half a Crown , Juft writes to make his barrenness appear , And strains from hard - bound brains , eight lines a year ; He , who still wanting , tho ' he lives on theft , Steals much , fpends little , yet has nothing left : 184 And He ...
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... Half froth , half venom , fpits himself abroad , In puns , or politics , or tales , or lies , Or fpite , or fmut , or rhymes , or blafphemies . NOTES . VER . 319. See Milton , Book iv . P. 320 VER . 320. Half froth , ] Alluding to those ...
... Half froth , half venom , fpits himself abroad , In puns , or politics , or tales , or lies , Or fpite , or fmut , or rhymes , or blafphemies . NOTES . VER . 319. See Milton , Book iv . P. 320 VER . 320. Half froth , ] Alluding to those ...
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... half approving wit , The coxcomb hit , or fearing to be hit ; Laugh'd at the lofs of friends he never had , The dull , the proud , the wicked , and the mad ; The diftant threats of vengeance on his head , The blow unfelt , the tear he ...
... half approving wit , The coxcomb hit , or fearing to be hit ; Laugh'd at the lofs of friends he never had , The dull , the proud , the wicked , and the mad ; The diftant threats of vengeance on his head , The blow unfelt , the tear he ...
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... half pint bottle ferves them both to dine , And is at once their vinegar and wine . W But on fome lucky day ( as when they found A loft Bank - bill , or heard their Son was drown'd ) At fuch a feast , * old vinegar to fpare , 55 60 ? 1 ...
... half pint bottle ferves them both to dine , And is at once their vinegar and wine . W But on fome lucky day ( as when they found A loft Bank - bill , or heard their Son was drown'd ) At fuch a feast , * old vinegar to fpare , 55 60 ? 1 ...
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... half the new - built churches round thee fall ? Make Keys , build Bridges , or repair White - hall : Or to thy Country let that heap be lent , As M ** o's was , but not at five per cent . NOTES . preceding morality . Horace was very ...
... half the new - built churches round thee fall ? Make Keys , build Bridges , or repair White - hall : Or to thy Country let that heap be lent , As M ** o's was , but not at five per cent . NOTES . preceding morality . Horace was very ...
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Seite 18 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Seite 17 - 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 51 - 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 243 - Before her dance; behind her crawl the Old! See thronging Millions to the Pagod run, And offer Country, Parent, Wife, or Son! Hear her black Trumpet thro' the Land proclaim, That "Not to be corrupted is the Shame.
Seite 19 - d by ev'ry quill ; Fed with soft dedication all day long, Horace and he went hand in hand in song.
Seite 234 - 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 6 - 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 30 - Bestia's from the throne. Born to no pride, inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious through his age. No courts he saw, no suits would ever try, Nor dar'd an oath, nor hazarded a lie.
Seite 244 - Are what ten thousand envy and adore : All, all look up with reverential awe, At crimes that 'scape or triumph o'er the law ; While truth, worth, wisdom, daily they decry : Nothing is sacred now but villainy.
Seite 157 - Besides, a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praise they say I bite. A vile encomium doubly ridicules : There's nothing blackens like the ink of fools. If true, a woful likeness ; and, if lies, ' Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.