The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Carefully Collated and Compared with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and CommentatorsEditor, and sold, 1778 |
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... with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and Commentators Alexander Pope. 1 Shut , shut the Door good John : fatigud I said . Ep . to Arbuthnot . Epiftle to Dr. ARBUTHNOT ; BEING THE PR PROL OGUE.
... with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and Commentators Alexander Pope. 1 Shut , shut the Door good John : fatigud I said . Ep . to Arbuthnot . Epiftle to Dr. ARBUTHNOT ; BEING THE PR PROL OGUE.
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... linguift ? and I feelily Said that I thought Calepines dictionary . Nay , but of men , moft fweet Sir ? Beza then , Some Jefuits , and two reverend men Of 75 . But , Sir , of writers ? " 80 SATIRES OF DR . DONNE . SAT.IV.
... linguift ? and I feelily Said that I thought Calepines dictionary . Nay , but of men , moft fweet Sir ? Beza then , Some Jefuits , and two reverend men Of 75 . But , Sir , of writers ? " 80 SATIRES OF DR . DONNE . SAT.IV.
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... Said I , the man that keeps the abbey - tombs , And for his price , doth with whoever comes Of all our Harrys , and our Edwards talk , From king to king , and all their kin can walk : Your ears fhall hear nought but kings ; your eyes ...
... Said I , the man that keeps the abbey - tombs , And for his price , doth with whoever comes Of all our Harrys , and our Edwards talk , From king to king , and all their kin can walk : Your ears fhall hear nought but kings ; your eyes ...
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... Said , " Tories call'd him Whig , and Whigs a Tory ; " And taught his Romans , in much better metre , " To laugh at fools who put their truft in Peter . " IO But Horace , Sir , was delicate , was nice ; Bubo obferves § he lafh'd no fort ...
... Said , " Tories call'd him Whig , and Whigs a Tory ; " And taught his Romans , in much better metre , " To laugh at fools who put their truft in Peter . " IO But Horace , Sir , was delicate , was nice ; Bubo obferves § he lafh'd no fort ...
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... Said to be executed by the captain of a Spanish fhip on one Jenkins , a captain of an English one . He cut off his ears , and bid him carry them to the king his master . A phrafe , by common ufe , uppropriated to the first minifter ...
... Said to be executed by the captain of a Spanish fhip on one Jenkins , a captain of an English one . He cut off his ears , and bid him carry them to the king his master . A phrafe , by common ufe , uppropriated to the first minifter ...
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Seite 127 - And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so well enlarged upon in the preface to his works: That wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn.
Seite 2 - Pope. Friend to my life, (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love?
Seite 104 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Seite 3 - The truth once told (and wherefore should we lie?) The Queen of Midas slept, and so may I. You think this cruel ? take it for a rule, No creature smarts so little as a fool. Let peals of laughter, Codrus ! round thee break, 85 Thou unconcern'd canst hear the mighty crack: Pit, box, and gall'ry in convulsions hurl'd, Thou stand'st unshook amidst a bursting world. Who shames a Scribbler? break one cobweb thro...
Seite 9 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or, at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad...
Seite 281 - We only furnish what he cannot use, Or wed to what he must divorce, a muse: Full in the midst of Euclid dip at once, And petrify a genius to a dunce: Or set on metaphysic ground to prance, Show all his paces, not a step advance.
Seite 11 - 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...
Seite 2 - And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove?
Seite 171 - Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, Where o'er the gates, by his fam'd father's hand Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand; One Cell there is, conceal'd from vulgar eye, The Cave of Poverty and Poetry. Keen, hollow winds howl thro' the bleak recess, Emblem of Music caus'd by Emptiness.
Seite 127 - ... or science, which have not been touched upon by others ; we have little else left us but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights. If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry...