The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements; together with all his notes: pr. verbatim from the octavo ed. of mr. Warburton, Band 41754 |
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Alexander Pope. SATIRES AND EPISTLES O F HORACE IMITATED . } T Advertisement . HE occafion of publishing these Imitations SATIRES and EPISTLES of HORACE imitated.
Alexander Pope. SATIRES AND EPISTLES O F HORACE IMITATED . } T Advertisement . HE occafion of publishing these Imitations SATIRES and EPISTLES of HORACE imitated.
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Alexander Pope. T Advertisement . HE occafion of publishing these Imitations was the Clamour rais'd on some of my Epistles . An " Anfwer from Horace was both more full , and of more Dignity , than any I could have made in my own perfon ...
Alexander Pope. T Advertisement . HE occafion of publishing these Imitations was the Clamour rais'd on some of my Epistles . An " Anfwer from Horace was both more full , and of more Dignity , than any I could have made in my own perfon ...
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... these IMITATIONS , will be much disappoint- ed . Our Author uses the Roman Poet for little more than his canvas : And if the old defign or co- louring chance to fuit his purpose , it is well : if not , he employs his own , without ...
... these IMITATIONS , will be much disappoint- ed . Our Author uses the Roman Poet for little more than his canvas : And if the old defign or co- louring chance to fuit his purpose , it is well : if not , he employs his own , without ...
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... these being judgments made by men out of their own profeffion , are little regarded . And Pope and Juvenal will make Blackmore and Tully pass for Poetafters to the world's end . VER . 28. falling Horfe ? ] The horse on which his Majesty ...
... these being judgments made by men out of their own profeffion , are little regarded . And Pope and Juvenal will make Blackmore and Tully pass for Poetafters to the world's end . VER . 28. falling Horfe ? ] The horse on which his Majesty ...
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Seite 49 - 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 27 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Seite 12 - 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 14 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Seite 4 - 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 13 - 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 167 - Bright through the rubbish of some hundred years ; Command old words, that long have slept, to wake, Words that wise Bacon or...
Seite 6 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage!' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Seite 20 - 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. Whether in florid impotence...
Seite 41 - My head and heart thus flowing thro' my quill, Verse-man or prose-man, term me which you will, Papist or Protestant, or both between, Like good Erasmus in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory.