Pope. Satires and Epistles, ed. by M. Pattison1872 |
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... virtue had departed from the earth , or was confined to the circle of friends - to Bolingbroke , Marchmont , Lyttelton and himself . ( See March- mont Papers , 2. 219. ) In such a position the best judgment becomes clouded , and men ...
... virtue had departed from the earth , or was confined to the circle of friends - to Bolingbroke , Marchmont , Lyttelton and himself . ( See March- mont Papers , 2. 219. ) In such a position the best judgment becomes clouded , and men ...
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... virtue is too often a cloak for revenge . His most pungent verses can always be referred back to some personal cause of affront a line in The Bee , or a copy of verses upon him which was handed about in manuscript . He knowingly threw ...
... virtue is too often a cloak for revenge . His most pungent verses can always be referred back to some personal cause of affront a line in The Bee , or a copy of verses upon him which was handed about in manuscript . He knowingly threw ...
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... virtue of his judgments . His dicta are so many axioms . When he condemns or commands it is the verdict of common sense that we hear . And Boileau never transgresses the bounds of legitimate criticism . He had no libels on his ...
... virtue of his judgments . His dicta are so many axioms . When he condemns or commands it is the verdict of common sense that we hear . And Boileau never transgresses the bounds of legitimate criticism . He had no libels on his ...
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... virtue scandal , innocence a fear , Or from the soft - ey'd virgin steal a tear ! But he who hurts a harmless neighbour's peace , Insults fall'n worth , or beauty in distress , Who loves a lye , lame slander helps about , Who writes a ...
... virtue scandal , innocence a fear , Or from the soft - ey'd virgin steal a tear ! But he who hurts a harmless neighbour's peace , Insults fall'n worth , or beauty in distress , Who loves a lye , lame slander helps about , Who writes a ...
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... virtue's better end , He stood the furious foe , the timid friend , The damning critic , half approving wit , The coxcomb hit , or fearing to be hit ; Laugh'd at the loss of friends he never had , The dull , the proud , the wicked , and ...
... virtue's better end , He stood the furious foe , the timid friend , The damning critic , half approving wit , The coxcomb hit , or fearing to be hit ; Laugh'd at the loss of friends he never had , The dull , the proud , the wicked , and ...
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Seite 30 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Seite 33 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Seite 30 - Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? What though my name stood rubric on the walls Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Seite 52 - Who counsels best ? who whispers, ' Be but great, With praise or infamy leave that to fate; Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace ; If not, by any means get wealth and place.
Seite 145 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he ' had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech.
Seite 27 - Say, for my comfort, languishing in bed, 'Just so immortal Maro held his head'; And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own?
Seite 144 - whispers through the trees": If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with "sleep": Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Seite 29 - 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 28 - Commas and points they set exactly right, And 'twere a sin to rob them of their mite.
Seite 64 - Who now reads Cowley ? if he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pointed wit ; Forgot his epic, nay Pindaric art, But still I love the language of his heart.