The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Band 6J. and P. Knapton [and others], 1751 |
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... hand ftrike out some free defign , Where Life awakes , and dawns at ev'ry line ; Or blend in beauteous tints the colour'd mafs , And from the canvas call the mimic face : Read these inftructive leaves , in which conspire Frefnoy's clofe ...
... hand ftrike out some free defign , Where Life awakes , and dawns at ev'ry line ; Or blend in beauteous tints the colour'd mafs , And from the canvas call the mimic face : Read these inftructive leaves , in which conspire Frefnoy's clofe ...
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... - rected by his own hand . - The humour of it confifts in this , that the one is in love with the Game , and the other with the Sharper . As 3 As You by Love , fo I by Fortune cross't 46 MISCELLANIE S. The BASSET TABLE, an Eclogue.
... - rected by his own hand . - The humour of it confifts in this , that the one is in love with the Game , and the other with the Sharper . As 3 As You by Love , fo I by Fortune cross't 46 MISCELLANIE S. The BASSET TABLE, an Eclogue.
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... hand Dame Justice past along . Before her each with clamour pleads the Laws , Explain'd the matter and would win the cause . Dame Justice weighing long the doubtful Right , Takes , opens , fwallows it before their fight . The cause of ...
... hand Dame Justice past along . Before her each with clamour pleads the Laws , Explain'd the matter and would win the cause . Dame Justice weighing long the doubtful Right , Takes , opens , fwallows it before their fight . The cause of ...
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... hand , how to employ his great Riches ; and on the other , how to educate his Child . He had already determined to fet apart feveral annual Sums , for the recovery of Manufcripts , the effofion of Coins , the procur- Arift . xiv . Sect ...
... hand , how to employ his great Riches ; and on the other , how to educate his Child . He had already determined to fet apart feveral annual Sums , for the recovery of Manufcripts , the effofion of Coins , the procur- Arift . xiv . Sect ...
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... hand and foot ? Is this what you call to be " free - born ? If you have no regard to his natural 66 Liberty , at least have fome to his natural Facul- " ties . Behold with what agility he spreadeth his " Toes , and moveth them with as ...
... hand and foot ? Is this what you call to be " free - born ? If you have no regard to his natural 66 Liberty , at least have fome to his natural Facul- " ties . Behold with what agility he spreadeth his " Toes , and moveth them with as ...
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Seite 325 - ... to consider him attentively in comparison with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns.
Seite 313 - Who can be so prejudiced in their favour as to magnify the felicity of those ages, when a spirit of revenge and cruelty, joined with the practice of rapine and robbery, reigned through the world ; when no mercy was...
Seite 303 - How fertile will that imagination appear which was able to clothe all the properties of elements, the qualifications of the mind, the virtues and vices, in forms and persons, and to introduce them into actions agreeable to the nature of the things they shadowed?
Seite 278 - I CANNOT think it extravagant to imagine that mankind are no less in proportion accountable for the ill use of their dominion over creatures of the lower rank of beings than for the exercise of tyranny over their own species.
Seite 331 - ... something between penetration and felicity, he hits upon that particular point on which the bent of each argument turns, or the force of each motive depends.
Seite 334 - ... upon the judgments of that body of men whereof he was a member. They have ever had a standard to themselves, upon other principles than those of Aristotle.
Seite 310 - ... of a trumpet. They roll along as a plentiful river, always in motion, and always full ; while we are borne away by a tide of...
Seite 289 - Nay, to that perfection is he arrived, that he stoops as he walks. The figure of the man is odd enough; he is a lively little creature, with long arms and legs : a spider is no ill emblem of him : he has been taken at a distance for a small windmill.
Seite 300 - If some things are too luxuriant it is owing to the richness of the soil; and if others are not arrived to perfection or maturity, it is only because they are overrun and oppressed by those of a stronger nature.
Seite 45 - ... twixt reading and Bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary Tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon; Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire, Hum half a tune, tell stories to the squire; Up to her godly garret after sev'n, There starve and pray, for that's the way to heav'n.