The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks,C. and J. Rivington; T. Cadell; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green; J. Cuthell; J. Nunn; ... [and 25 others in London]; and Deighton and Sons, Cambridge; and A. Black, and J. Fairbairn, Edinburgh., 1824 |
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... reason to believe . Warton has ventured to point out the chapters that are by his hand . After his death the papers came into the possession of Pope , who undoubtedly extended , and corrected them ; but it was not till several years ...
... reason to believe . Warton has ventured to point out the chapters that are by his hand . After his death the papers came into the possession of Pope , who undoubtedly extended , and corrected them ; but it was not till several years ...
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... reason to believe this excellent person is either dead , or carried by his vehement thirst of knowledge into some remote , or perhaps undiscovered region of the world . In either case , I think it a debt no longer to be delayed , to ...
... reason to believe this excellent person is either dead , or carried by his vehement thirst of knowledge into some remote , or perhaps undiscovered region of the world . In either case , I think it a debt no longer to be delayed , to ...
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... reason only he espoused , but because she was undoubted daughter either of the great Scriverius , or of Gaspar Barthius . It happened on a time , the said Gaspar made a visit to Scrive- rius at Haarlem , taking with him a comely lady of ...
... reason only he espoused , but because she was undoubted daughter either of the great Scriverius , or of Gaspar Barthius . It happened on a time , the said Gaspar made a visit to Scrive- rius at Haarlem , taking with him a comely lady of ...
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... reason to wish for some ancient Tibicen to calm his temper . * There is a description of equal humour and pleasantry in Joel Collier , where the musician is represented , as endeavouring to set a broken leg , by playing different tunes ...
... reason to wish for some ancient Tibicen to calm his temper . * There is a description of equal humour and pleasantry in Joel Collier , where the musician is represented , as endeavouring to set a broken leg , by playing different tunes ...
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... reason was so pliant and ductile , that he was always of the opinion of the last he read . But he reckoned it a point of ho- nour never to be vanquished in a dispute ; from which quality he acquired the title of the Invin- cible Doctor ...
... reason was so pliant and ductile , that he was always of the opinion of the last he read . But he reckoned it a point of ho- nour never to be vanquished in a dispute ; from which quality he acquired the title of the Invin- cible Doctor ...
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Seite 296 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Seite 291 - Form'da vast buckle for his widow's gown: Her infant grandame's whistle next it grew, The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew; Then in a bodkin grac'd her mother's hairs, Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears.) Boast not my fall (he cry'd) insulting foe ! Thou by some other shalt be laid as low.
Seite 296 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void...
Seite 230 - 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 303 - A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong; which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.
Seite 294 - Or roll the planets through the boundless sky. Some less refined, beneath the moon's pale light, Pursue the stars that shoot athwart the night, Or suck the mists in grosser air below, Or dip their pinions in the painted bow, Or brew fierce tempests on the wintry main, Or...
Seite 403 - whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine too these golden keys, immortal boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy, Of Horror that, and thrilling fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.
Seite 284 - Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain; Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide: Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 'Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th...
Seite 289 - E'en mighty Pam, that kings and queens o'erthrew, And mow'd down armies in the fights of...
Seite 469 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all Books* else appear so mean, so* poor, Verse will seem Prose : but still persist to read*, And Homer will be all the Books you need1.