The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseC. Bathurst, 1787 |
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... live on this fide ' Trent ; Nor crofs the Channel twice a year , 30 To spend fix Months with Statefmen here . Si neque majorem feci ratione mala rem , Nec fum facturus vitio culpáve minorem : Si veneror ftultus nihil horum , O fi ...
... live on this fide ' Trent ; Nor crofs the Channel twice a year , 30 To spend fix Months with Statefmen here . Si neque majorem feci ratione mala rem , Nec fum facturus vitio culpáve minorem : Si veneror ftultus nihil horum , O fi ...
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... live with Men : " Confider , Mice , like Men , must die , " Both fmall and great , both you and I : " Then spend your life in Joy and Sport , 66 170 175 ( This doctrine , Friend , I learn'd at Court . ) " 180 The verieft Hermit in the ...
... live with Men : " Confider , Mice , like Men , must die , " Both fmall and great , both you and I : " Then spend your life in Joy and Sport , 66 170 175 ( This doctrine , Friend , I learn'd at Court . ) " 180 The verieft Hermit in the ...
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... live . ” No fooner faid , but from the Hall Rufh Chaplain , Butler , Dogs and all : " A Rat ! a Rat ! clap to the door ” -- The Cat comes bouncing on the floor ! O for the heart of Homer's Mice , 210 Or Gods to fave them in a trice ...
... live . ” No fooner faid , but from the Hall Rufh Chaplain , Butler , Dogs and all : " A Rat ! a Rat ! clap to the door ” -- The Cat comes bouncing on the floor ! O for the heart of Homer's Mice , 210 Or Gods to fave them in a trice ...
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... lives in ev'ry line ; His easy Art may happy Nature seem , Trifles themfelves are elegant in him . Sure to charm all was his peculiar fate , Who without flatt'ry pleas'd the fair and great ; Still with efteem no lefs convers'd than read ...
... lives in ev'ry line ; His easy Art may happy Nature seem , Trifles themfelves are elegant in him . Sure to charm all was his peculiar fate , Who without flatt'ry pleas'd the fair and great ; Still with efteem no lefs convers'd than read ...
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... live to these . Too much your Sex is by their forms confin'd , Severe to all , but most to Womankind ; Cuftom , grown blind with Age , must be your guide ; Your pleasure is a vice , but not your pride ; By nature yielding , stubborn but ...
... live to these . Too much your Sex is by their forms confin'd , Severe to all , but most to Womankind ; Cuftom , grown blind with Age , must be your guide ; Your pleasure is a vice , but not your pride ; By nature yielding , stubborn but ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
againſt alfo almoſt alſo ancient animals Bathos becauſe befides bleft caft caufe cauſe compofed Cornelius courſe Crambe Criticks defcribe defcription defign defire diſcover Eclogues expreffion exprefs faid fame fatire feems feveral fhall fhort fhould fimplicity fince fingle firft firſt fome fometimes fpirit Friend ftill fubject fuch genius greateſt hath himſelf Homer honour Horfes Horſe houſe Iliad inftance itſelf juft Juftice Julius Pollux juſt Lady laft laſt learned leaſt lefs Lord mafter manner Martin meaſure modern moft moſt muſt myſelf nature neceffary never obferved occafion Paffion Paftoral perfon pleaſe pleaſure Poem Poet poetry praiſe prefent promiſe publick purpoſe quoth raiſe Reaſon rife Scriblerus ſeems ſeveral Shakeſpear ſhall ſhe ſmall ſome ſpeak ſuch Terpander thee thefe themſelves Theocritus theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought tion tranflated univerfal uſed verfe verſe Virgil whofe whole whoſe words writers
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 278 - When we read Homer, we ought to reflect that we are reading the...
Seite 214 - Jerusalem with iniquity: the heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, "Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.
Seite 154 - Cuzzona. * fineft fineft thread. There are Amplifiers who can extend half a dozen thin thoughts over a whole Folio...
Seite 8 - How think you of our friend the Dean? I wonder what some people mean; My lord and he are grown so great, Always together tete-d-tete. What ! they admire him for his jokes — See but the fortune of some folks...
Seite 291 - That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me; of whom it is hard to say whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing to his generosity or his example...
Seite 280 - Homer, and that of his work ; but when they come to assign the causes of the great reputation of the Iliad, they found it upon the ignorance of his times and the prejudice of...
Seite 298 - Players are just such judges of what is right, as tailors are of what is graceful. And in this view it will be but fair to allow, that most of our author's faults are less to be ascribed to his wrong judgment as a poet, than to his right judgment as a player.
Seite 187 - Here therefore, in the name of all our Brethren, let me return our sincere and humble Thanks to the most August Mr.
Seite 52 - Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
Seite 281 - ... enchantment. Homer not only appears the inventor of poetry, but excels all the inventors of other arts in this, that he has swallowed up the honour of those who succeeded him.