The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &cA. Millar [and others], 1757 |
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... head ; And drop at laft , but in unwilling cars , 35 39 This faving counfel , " Keep your piece nine years . " Nine years ! cries he , who high in Drury - lane , Lull'd by foft Zephyrs thro ' the broken pane , Rhymes ere he wakes , and ...
... head ; And drop at laft , but in unwilling cars , 35 39 This faving counfel , " Keep your piece nine years . " Nine years ! cries he , who high in Drury - lane , Lull'd by foft Zephyrs thro ' the broken pane , Rhymes ere he wakes , and ...
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... head [ reafon ] but from the guts [ paffions and prejudices ] and fuch a thread that can entangle none but creatures weaker than themselves . VER . 98. free - mafons Moor ? ] He was of this fociety , and frequently headed their ...
... head [ reafon ] but from the guts [ paffions and prejudices ] and fuch a thread that can entangle none but creatures weaker than themselves . VER . 98. free - mafons Moor ? ] He was of this fociety , and frequently headed their ...
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... head , if you'll the truth excufe , I had it from my Mother , not the Mufe . Happy , if he , in whom these frailties join'd , Had heir'd as well the virtues of the mind . a Curl fet up his head for a fign . b His father was crooked ...
... head , if you'll the truth excufe , I had it from my Mother , not the Mufe . Happy , if he , in whom these frailties join'd , Had heir'd as well the virtues of the mind . a Curl fet up his head for a fign . b His father was crooked ...
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... head , 140 And St. John's felf ( great Dryden's friends before ) With open arms receiv'd one Poet more . Happy my ftudies , when by thefe approv❜d ! Happier their author , when by these belov'd ! From these the world will judge of men ...
... head , 140 And St. John's felf ( great Dryden's friends before ) With open arms receiv'd one Poet more . Happy my ftudies , when by thefe approv❜d ! Happier their author , when by these belov'd ! From these the world will judge of men ...
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... head ) Receiv'd of wits an undiftinguifh'd race , Who firft his judgment afk'd , and then a place : Much they extoll'd his pictures , much his feat , And flatter'd ev'ry day , and fome days eat : Till grown more frugal in his riper days ...
... head ) Receiv'd of wits an undiftinguifh'd race , Who firft his judgment afk'd , and then a place : Much they extoll'd his pictures , much his feat , And flatter'd ev'ry day , and fome days eat : Till grown more frugal in his riper days ...
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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...