The Works of the English Poets: PopeH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... gold : 300 When fell Corruption dark and deep , like fate , Saps the foundation of a finking State : When Giant - Vice and Irreligion rife , 305 On mountain'd falfehoods to invade the Skies : Then warmer numbers glow through Satire's ...
... gold : 300 When fell Corruption dark and deep , like fate , Saps the foundation of a finking State : When Giant - Vice and Irreligion rife , 305 On mountain'd falfehoods to invade the Skies : Then warmer numbers glow through Satire's ...
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... gold ? 340 Let real Merit then adorn your lays , For Shame attends on prostituted praife : And all your wit , your most distinguish'd art , But makes us grieve you want an honest heart . Nor Nor think the Mufe by Satire's Law confin'd ...
... gold ? 340 Let real Merit then adorn your lays , For Shame attends on prostituted praife : And all your wit , your most distinguish'd art , But makes us grieve you want an honest heart . Nor Nor think the Mufe by Satire's Law confin'd ...
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... gold . To Be , contents his natural defire , He afks no Angel's wing , no Seraph's fire ; But thinks , admitted to that equal sky , His faithful dog fhall bear him company . IV . Go , wifer thou ! and in thy scale of fense , Weigh thy ...
... gold . To Be , contents his natural defire , He afks no Angel's wing , no Seraph's fire ; But thinks , admitted to that equal sky , His faithful dog fhall bear him company . IV . Go , wifer thou ! and in thy scale of fense , Weigh thy ...
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... gold or glory , please , Or ( oft more frong than all ) the love of eafe ; Through life ' tis follow'd , ev'n at life's expence ; The merchant's toil , the fage's indolence , The monk's humility , the hero's pride , All , all alike ...
... gold or glory , please , Or ( oft more frong than all ) the love of eafe ; Through life ' tis follow'd , ev'n at life's expence ; The merchant's toil , the fage's indolence , The monk's humility , the hero's pride , All , all alike ...
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... gold , amuse his riper stage , And beads and prayer - books are the toys of age : Pleas'd with this bauble ftill , as that before ; Till tir'd he fleeps , and Life's poor play is o'er . Meanwhile Opinion gilds with varying rays . Those ...
... gold , amuse his riper stage , And beads and prayer - books are the toys of age : Pleas'd with this bauble ftill , as that before ; Till tir'd he fleeps , and Life's poor play is o'er . Meanwhile Opinion gilds with varying rays . Those ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
aetas againſt Aſk atque Balaam beſt Biſhop bleffing bleft bluſh breaſt Cæfar cauſe charms Court Dæmon eafe eaſe EPISTLE ev'n eyes fame fate fave fhall fhould fibi fince fing firſt foft Folly fome fool foul ftill ftrong fuch fure grace Happineſs heart Heaven himſelf honeft honour Houſe juft juſt King Knave laft laſt learn'd lefs leſs loft Lord lov'd ludicra mankind moſt Mufe muft Muſe muſt Nature ne'er numbers nunc o'er Paffion paſs paſt pleas'd pleaſe Pleaſure Poet praiſe pride purſue quae quid quod Reaſon reft reſt rife riſe Sappho Satire ſay ſcarce ſhade ſhall ſhe ſhine ſmile ſome ſpread ſtate ſtill Taſte thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou thouſand tibi truſt Truth Twas uſe VARIATION Verfe verſe Vice Virtue whofe whoſe wife worfe
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 41 - With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and...
Seite 29 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Seite 39 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Seite 77 - Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede ; The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make an enemy of all mankind!
Seite 50 - Fools ! who from hence into the notion fall, That vice or virtue there is none at all. If white and black blend, soften, and unite A thousand ways, is there no black or white?
Seite 156 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Seite 60 - Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod; The state of Nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man.
Seite 64 - For nature knew no right divine in men ; No ill could fear in God, and understood A...
Seite 69 - Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? • Where grows ? — where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil...
Seite 56 - Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn, For him as kindly spread the flow'ry lawn : Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings.