The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks,C. and J. Rivington; T. Cadell; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green; J. Cuthell; J. Nunn; ... [and 25 others in London]; and Deighton and Sons, Cambridge; and A. Black, and J. Fairbairn, Edinburgh., 1824 |
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... learned man was clearly of opi- nion , that the semina out of which animals are produced , are animalcula ready formed , and re- ceived in with the air . * Under these regulations , his wife , to his unex- pressible joy , grew pregnant ...
... learned man was clearly of opi- nion , that the semina out of which animals are produced , are animalcula ready formed , and re- ceived in with the air . * Under these regulations , his wife , to his unex- pressible joy , grew pregnant ...
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... learned from antiquity , we find a modern writer only picking out their absur- dities . Warburton . Ramsay took this circumstance from the seventeenth book of Strabo " Other men begin not the education of their children till after they ...
... learned from antiquity , we find a modern writer only picking out their absur- dities . Warburton . Ramsay took this circumstance from the seventeenth book of Strabo " Other men begin not the education of their children till after they ...
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... learned men of his acquaintance . This chapter is a satire on Dr. Woodward , who valued him- self on the possession of an ancient shield , on which he wrote a curious dissertation . The Doctor was a naturalist , and great col- lector of ...
... learned men of his acquaintance . This chapter is a satire on Dr. Woodward , who valued him- self on the possession of an ancient shield , on which he wrote a curious dissertation . The Doctor was a naturalist , and great col- lector of ...
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... sunk back on a chair , the guests stood " Poor Vadius , long with learned spleen devour'd , Can taste no pleasure since his shield was scour'd . " astonished , the infant squalled , the maid ran in MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS . 25.
... sunk back on a chair , the guests stood " Poor Vadius , long with learned spleen devour'd , Can taste no pleasure since his shield was scour'd . " astonished , the infant squalled , the maid ran in MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS . 25.
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... learned ? All this the rude touch of an ignorant woman hath done away ! The curious prominence at the belly of that figure , which some taking for the cuspis of a sword , denominated a Roman soldier ; others ac- counting the insignia ...
... learned ? All this the rude touch of an ignorant woman hath done away ! The curious prominence at the belly of that figure , which some taking for the cuspis of a sword , denominated a Roman soldier ; others ac- counting the insignia ...
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Seite 296 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Seite 291 - Form'da vast buckle for his widow's gown: Her infant grandame's whistle next it grew, The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew; Then in a bodkin grac'd her mother's hairs, Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears.) Boast not my fall (he cry'd) insulting foe ! Thou by some other shalt be laid as low.
Seite 296 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void...
Seite 230 - Jerusalem with iniquity: the heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, "Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.
Seite 303 - A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong; which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.
Seite 294 - Or roll the planets through the boundless sky. Some less refined, beneath the moon's pale light, Pursue the stars that shoot athwart the night, Or suck the mists in grosser air below, Or dip their pinions in the painted bow, Or brew fierce tempests on the wintry main, Or...
Seite 403 - whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine too these golden keys, immortal boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy, Of Horror that, and thrilling fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.
Seite 284 - Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain; Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide: Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 'Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th...
Seite 289 - E'en mighty Pam, that kings and queens o'erthrew, And mow'd down armies in the fights of...
Seite 469 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all Books* else appear so mean, so* poor, Verse will seem Prose : but still persist to read*, And Homer will be all the Books you need1.