The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &cJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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Alexander Pope. To please a Mistress one afpers'd his life ; He lafh'd him not , but let her be his wife : Let Budgel charge low Grubftræet on his quill , And write whate'er he pleas'd , except his Will ; Let the two Curls of Town and ...
Alexander Pope. To please a Mistress one afpers'd his life ; He lafh'd him not , but let her be his wife : Let Budgel charge low Grubftræet on his quill , And write whate'er he pleas'd , except his Will ; Let the two Curls of Town and ...
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... please , I doubt our curious men Will chufe a pheasant still before a hen ; Yet hens of Guinea full as good I hold , Except you eat the feathers green and gold . 1 Of carps and mullets why prefer the great , ( Tho ' cut in pieces ' ere ...
... please , I doubt our curious men Will chufe a pheasant still before a hen ; Yet hens of Guinea full as good I hold , Except you eat the feathers green and gold . 1 Of carps and mullets why prefer the great , ( Tho ' cut in pieces ' ere ...
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... invited over , And defp'rate Mifery lays hold on Dover . The cafe is easier in the Mind's disease ; There all Men may be cur'd , whene'er they please . 55 Quaere fugam morbi . * vis recte vivere ? quis Ep . VI . OF HORACE . 105.
... invited over , And defp'rate Mifery lays hold on Dover . The cafe is easier in the Mind's disease ; There all Men may be cur'd , whene'er they please . 55 Quaere fugam morbi . * vis recte vivere ? quis Ep . VI . OF HORACE . 105.
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... please not till they set . To thee , the World its present homage pays , The Harveft early , but mature the praife : Great Friend of LIBERTY ! in Kings a Name Above all Greek , above all Roman Fame * : Whofe Word is Truth , as facred ...
... please not till they set . To thee , the World its present homage pays , The Harveft early , but mature the praife : Great Friend of LIBERTY ! in Kings a Name Above all Greek , above all Roman Fame * : Whofe Word is Truth , as facred ...
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Alexander Pope. Or Virtue , or Religion turn to fport , To please a lewd , or unbelieving Court . Unhappy Dryden ! —In all Charles's days , Rofcommon only boasts unspotted bays ; And in our own ( excuse fome Courtly stains ) No whiter ...
Alexander Pope. Or Virtue , or Religion turn to fport , To please a lewd , or unbelieving Court . Unhappy Dryden ! —In all Charles's days , Rofcommon only boasts unspotted bays ; And in our own ( excuse fome Courtly stains ) No whiter ...
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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.