The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &cJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... Some keep Affemblies , and would keep the Stews ; Some with fat Bucks on childless Dotards fawn ; 130 Some win rich Widows by their Chine and Brawn ; While with the filent growth of ten per cent , In dirt and darkness , hundreds ftink ...
... Some keep Affemblies , and would keep the Stews ; Some with fat Bucks on childless Dotards fawn ; 130 Some win rich Widows by their Chine and Brawn ; While with the filent growth of ten per cent , In dirt and darkness , hundreds ftink ...
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... some things right , in others , wrong ; as he tells us in his answer , Interdum vulgus rectum videt : eft ubi peccat . P. -bafty Shadwell and flow Wycherley , is a line of Wil- mot , Earl of Rochefter ; the fenfe of which feems to have ...
... some things right , in others , wrong ; as he tells us in his answer , Interdum vulgus rectum videt : eft ubi peccat . P. -bafty Shadwell and flow Wycherley , is a line of Wil- mot , Earl of Rochefter ; the fenfe of which feems to have ...
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... Some doubt , if equal pains , or equal fire The humbler Mufe of Comedy require . But in known Images of life , I guess f The labour greater , as th ' indulgence lefs . Obferve how feldom ev'n the best fucceed : Tell me if Congreve's ...
... Some doubt , if equal pains , or equal fire The humbler Mufe of Comedy require . But in known Images of life , I guess f The labour greater , as th ' indulgence lefs . Obferve how feldom ev'n the best fucceed : Tell me if Congreve's ...
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... some Minister of Grace , Fit to beftow the Laureat's weighty place . а a Charles , to late times to be tranfmitted fair , 380 Affign'd his figure to Bernini's care ; And great Naffau to Kneller's hand decreed To fix him graceful on the ...
... some Minister of Grace , Fit to beftow the Laureat's weighty place . а a Charles , to late times to be tranfmitted fair , 380 Affign'd his figure to Bernini's care ; And great Naffau to Kneller's hand decreed To fix him graceful on the ...
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... Some beafts were kill'd , tho ' not whole hecatombs ; That both extremes were banish'd from their walls , Carthufian fafts , and fulfome Bacchanals ; And all mankind might that juft Mean observe , In which none e'er could furfeit , none ...
... Some beafts were kill'd , tho ' not whole hecatombs ; That both extremes were banish'd from their walls , Carthufian fafts , and fulfome Bacchanals ; And all mankind might that juft Mean observe , In which none e'er could furfeit , none ...
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Seite 18 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Seite 17 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Seite 51 - 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 243 - Before her dance; behind her crawl the Old! See thronging Millions to the Pagod run, And offer Country, Parent, Wife, or Son! Hear her black Trumpet thro' the Land proclaim, That "Not to be corrupted is the Shame.
Seite 19 - d by ev'ry quill ; Fed with soft dedication all day long, Horace and he went hand in hand in song.
Seite 234 - Seen him, uncumber'd with the Venal tribe, Smile without Art, and win without a Bribe. Would he oblige me ? let me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind.
Seite 6 - They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Seite 30 - Bestia's from the throne. Born to no pride, inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious through his age. No courts he saw, no suits would ever try, Nor dar'd an oath, nor hazarded a lie.
Seite 244 - Are what ten thousand envy and adore : All, all look up with reverential awe, At crimes that 'scape or triumph o'er the law ; While truth, worth, wisdom, daily they decry : Nothing is sacred now but villainy.
Seite 157 - Besides, a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praise they say I bite. A vile encomium doubly ridicules : There's nothing blackens like the ink of fools. If true, a woful likeness ; and, if lies, ' Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.