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Behold the hand that wrought a Nation's cure , 225 Stretch'd to * relieve the Idiot
and the Poor , Proud Vice to brand , or injur'd Worth adorn , And y stretch the Ray
to ages yet unborn . Not but there are , who merit other palms ; Hopkins and ...
Behold the hand that wrought a Nation's cure , 225 Stretch'd to * relieve the Idiot
and the Poor , Proud Vice to brand , or injur'd Worth adorn , And y stretch the Ray
to ages yet unborn . Not but there are , who merit other palms ; Hopkins and ...
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10 ES ; thank my stars ! as early as I knew This Town , I had the sense to hate it
too : Yet here , as ev'n in Hell , there must be still One Giant - Vice , fo excellently
ill , That all beside , one pities , not abhors ; 5 As who knows Sappho , smiles at ...
10 ES ; thank my stars ! as early as I knew This Town , I had the sense to hate it
too : Yet here , as ev'n in Hell , there must be still One Giant - Vice , fo excellently
ill , That all beside , one pities , not abhors ; 5 As who knows Sappho , smiles at ...
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Spare then the Person , and expose the Vice . P. How , Sir I not damn the
Sharper , but the Dice ? Come on then , Satire ! gen'ral , unconfin'd , Spread thy
broad wing , and fouce on all the kind . Ye Statesmen , Priests , of one Religion
all !
Spare then the Person , and expose the Vice . P. How , Sir I not damn the
Sharper , but the Dice ? Come on then , Satire ! gen'ral , unconfin'd , Spread thy
broad wing , and fouce on all the kind . Ye Statesmen , Priests , of one Religion
all !
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But , Sir , I beg you ( for the Love of Vice ! ) The matter's weighty , pray consider
twice ; Have you lefs pity for the needy Cheat , The poor and friendlefs Villain ,
than the Great ? 45 40 Ver . 29. Like Royal Hearts , etc. ] Alluding to the old Game
...
But , Sir , I beg you ( for the Love of Vice ! ) The matter's weighty , pray consider
twice ; Have you lefs pity for the needy Cheat , The poor and friendlefs Villain ,
than the Great ? 45 40 Ver . 29. Like Royal Hearts , etc. ] Alluding to the old Game
...
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O sacred weapon ! left for Truth's defence , Sole Dread of Folly , Vice , and
Infolence ! To all but Heav'n - directed hands deny'd , The Muse may give thee ,
but the Gods must guide : Rev'rent I touch thee ! but with honest zeal ; 216 To
rouse the ...
O sacred weapon ! left for Truth's defence , Sole Dread of Folly , Vice , and
Infolence ! To all but Heav'n - directed hands deny'd , The Muse may give thee ,
but the Gods must guide : Rev'rent I touch thee ! but with honest zeal ; 216 To
rouse the ...
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Seite 21 - A Cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust; Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Seite 12 - 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 17 - Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do :) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please ; Above a patron, tho' I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend.
Seite 49 - Hear this, and tremble ! you who 'scape the laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave Shall walk the world, in credit, to his grave.
Seite 45 - Slander or Poison dread from Delia's rage, Hard words or hanging, if your Judge be Page.
Seite 17 - And those they left me; for they left me Gay; Left me to see neglected genius bloom, Neglected die, and 'tell it on his tomb: Of all thy blameless...
Seite 27 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Seite 182 - Sir, though (I thank God for it) I do hate Perfectly all this town, yet there's one state In all ill things so excellently best, That hate towards them breeds pity towards the rest.
Seite 6 - Furies, death and rage!" If I approve, "Commend it to the stage.
Seite 24 - If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit...
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| Titel | The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &c Band 4 von The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester) |
| Autor/in | Alexander Pope |
| Verlag | A. Millar [and others], 1757 |
| Original von | New York Public Library |
| Digitalisiert | 14. Nov. 2006 |
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