The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... To fet this matter full before ye , Our old Friend Swift will tell his Story . " Harley , the Nation's great Support , " But you may read it , I ftop fhort . 80 SATIRE SATIR A VI . OC erat in votis : modus Ep . VII . 9 A OF HORACE.
... To fet this matter full before ye , Our old Friend Swift will tell his Story . " Harley , the Nation's great Support , " But you may read it , I ftop fhort . 80 SATIRE SATIR A VI . OC erat in votis : modus Ep . VII . 9 A OF HORACE.
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... Friend , A River at my garden's end , A Terras - walk , and half a Rood Of Land , fet out to plant a Wood . Well , now I have all this and more , I ask not to encrease my store ; • But here a Grievance seems to lie , All this is mine ...
... Friend , A River at my garden's end , A Terras - walk , and half a Rood Of Land , fet out to plant a Wood . Well , now I have all this and more , I ask not to encrease my store ; • But here a Grievance seems to lie , All this is mine ...
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... friend . * { This humbly offers me his Cafe- That , begs my int'reft for a Place- A hundred other Men's affairs , Like bees , are humming in my ears . } 7 To - morrow my Appeal.comes , on , " Without your help the Caufe is gone The Duke ...
... friend . * { This humbly offers me his Cafe- That , begs my int'reft for a Place- A hundred other Men's affairs , Like bees , are humming in my ears . } 7 To - morrow my Appeal.comes , on , " Without your help the Caufe is gone The Duke ...
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... Friend the Dean ? c " I wonder what fome people mean ; 95 100 " My Lord and he are grown fo great , 105 " Always together , tête à tête , " What , they admire him for his jokes- " See but the fortune of fome Folks ! There flies about a ...
... Friend the Dean ? c " I wonder what fome people mean ; 95 100 " My Lord and he are grown fo great , 105 " Always together , tête à tête , " What , they admire him for his jokes- " See but the fortune of fome Folks ! There flies about a ...
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... Friends above , my Folks below , Chatting and laughing all - a - row , 135 The Beans and Bacon fet before ' em , The ... friend in his own way of modernizing Horace . But this way is infinitely inferior to his own . For tho ' Horace be ...
... Friends above , my Folks below , Chatting and laughing all - a - row , 135 The Beans and Bacon fet before ' em , The ... friend in his own way of modernizing Horace . But this way is infinitely inferior to his own . For tho ' Horace be ...
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Seite 328 - We shall hereby extenuate many faults which are his, and clear him from the imputation of many which are not...
Seite 299 - If a council be called, or a battle fought, you are not coldly informed of what was said or done as from a third person; the reader is hurried out of himself by the force of the poet's imagination, and turns in one place to a hearer, in another to a spectator.
Seite 323 - However, had he translated the whole work, I would no more have attempted Homer after him than Virgil, his Version of whom (notwithstanding some human errors) is the most noble and spirited translation I know in any language.
Seite 299 - If some things are too luxuriant it is owing to the richness of the soil; and if others are not arrived to perfection or maturity, it is only because they are overrun and oppressed by those of a stronger nature.
Seite 44 - ... twixt reading and Bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary Tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon; Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire, Hum half a tune, tell stories to the squire; Up to her godly garret after sev'n, There starve and pray, for that's the way to heav'n.
Seite 307 - Aristotle had reason to say, he was the only poet who had found out living words ; there are in him more daring figures and metaphors than in any good author whatever. An arrow is impatient to be on the wing, a weapon thirsts to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like.
Seite 346 - I will conclude by saying of Shakespear, that with all his faults, and with all the irregularity of his drama, one may look upon his works, in comparison of those that are more...
Seite 339 - ... till after his death. The whole number of genuine plays, which we have been able to find printed in his lifetime, amounts but to eleven.
Seite 12 - And that they ne'er consider'd yet. ' Good Mr. Dean, go change your gown, Let my lord know you're come to town.
Seite 293 - ... masters, being wholly unconfined, and painting at pleasure, may be thought to have given a full idea of what they esteemed most excellent in this way. These (one may observe) consist entirely of the useful part of horticulture, fruit-trees, herbs, water, &c.