The Works of Alexander Pope: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and proseJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... never to oblige ye .. Scatter your Favours on a Fop , Ingratitude's the certain crop ; .. : And ' tis but juft , I'll tell ye wherefore , You give the things you never care for ... A wife man always is or fhou'd Be mighty ready to do ...
... never to oblige ye .. Scatter your Favours on a Fop , Ingratitude's the certain crop ; .. : And ' tis but juft , I'll tell ye wherefore , You give the things you never care for ... A wife man always is or fhou'd Be mighty ready to do ...
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... never faw Come with Petitions fairly penn'd , Defiring I would ftand their 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 . " To - morrow ...
... never faw Come with Petitions fairly penn'd , Defiring I would ftand their 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 . " To - morrow ...
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... never without its dignity . These things burlesque verfe cannot reconcile , nor indeed any other , that I know of , but the fore - going imitations of our Poet . IC 2 Which Divitiis homines , an fint virtute beati : Quidve ad Sat. VI ...
... never without its dignity . These things burlesque verfe cannot reconcile , nor indeed any other , that I know of , but the fore - going imitations of our Poet . IC 2 Which Divitiis homines , an fint virtute beati : Quidve ad Sat. VI ...
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... never mourn'd before ; The trueft hearts for Voiture heav'd with fighs , Voiture was wept by all the brightest Eyes : The Smiles and Loves had dy'd in Voiture's death , But that for ever in his lines they breathe . Let the ftrict life ...
... never mourn'd before ; The trueft hearts for Voiture heav'd with fighs , Voiture was wept by all the brightest Eyes : The Smiles and Loves had dy'd in Voiture's death , But that for ever in his lines they breathe . Let the ftrict life ...
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... never dies ! O learned Friend of Abchurch - Lane , Who fett'ft our entrails free ? Vain is thy Art , thy Powder vain , Since Worms fhall eat ev'n thee . Our Fate thou only can'ft adjourn Some few short years , no more ! Ev'n Button's ...
... never dies ! O learned Friend of Abchurch - Lane , Who fett'ft our entrails free ? Vain is thy Art , thy Powder vain , Since Worms fhall eat ev'n thee . Our Fate thou only can'ft adjourn Some few short years , no more ! Ev'n Button's ...
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Seite 290 - Homer makes us hearers, and Virgil leaves us readers. If in the next place we take a view of the sentiments, the same presiding faculty is eminent in the sublimity and spirit of his thoughts. Longinus has given his opinion, that it was in this part Homer principally excelled.
Seite 81 - 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 196 - Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy!
Seite 280 - I know an eminent cook, who beautified his country seat with a coronation dinner in greens ; where you see the champion flourishing on horseback at one end of the table, and the queen in perpetual youth at the other.
Seite 309 - ... to consider him attentively in comparison with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns.
Seite 284 - 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 327 - Prose from verse they did not know, and they accordingly printed one for the other throughout the volume.
Seite 288 - Every one has something so singularly his own, that no painter could have distinguished them more by their features, than the poet has by their manners.
Seite 289 - Idomeneus a plain, direct soldier ; in Sarpedon, a gallant and generous one. Nor is this judicious and...
Seite 331 - 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...