The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &cJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... whole life along , And the fad burthen of fome merry song . ▾ Slander or Poison dread from Delia's rage , Hard words or hanging , if your Judge be Page . From furious Sappho scarce a milder fate , P - x'd by her love , or libell'd by ...
... whole life along , And the fad burthen of fome merry song . ▾ Slander or Poison dread from Delia's rage , Hard words or hanging , if your Judge be Page . From furious Sappho scarce a milder fate , P - x'd by her love , or libell'd by ...
Seite 61
... whole Hog barbecu'd ! " NOTES . fortune of fifteen hundred pounds a year in the fimple lux- ury of good eating . VER . 26. a whole Hog barbecu'd ! ] The Poet has here given a beauty equivalent to that in the Original , Porrectum magno ...
... whole Hog barbecu'd ! " NOTES . fortune of fifteen hundred pounds a year in the fimple lux- ury of good eating . VER . 26. a whole Hog barbecu'd ! ] The Poet has here given a beauty equivalent to that in the Original , Porrectum magno ...
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... loved this worthy man , whole unaffected humanity and benevolence have ftifled much of that envy which his emi- nence in his profeffion would otherwise have drawn out . Long as the Year's dull circle seems to run , 82 Book I. IMITATIONS.
... loved this worthy man , whole unaffected humanity and benevolence have ftifled much of that envy which his emi- nence in his profeffion would otherwise have drawn out . Long as the Year's dull circle seems to run , 82 Book I. IMITATIONS.
Seite 84
... happily varied . But the whole paffage , which defcribes the ufe and efficacy of fatire , is admirably imitated . VER . 70. Scar'd at the Spectre of pale Poverty ! ] Tho ' Know , there are Words , and Spells , which 84 Book I. IMITATIONS.
... happily varied . But the whole paffage , which defcribes the ufe and efficacy of fatire , is admirably imitated . VER . 70. Scar'd at the Spectre of pale Poverty ! ] Tho ' Know , there are Words , and Spells , which 84 Book I. IMITATIONS.
Seite 86
... whole collection , The Original is , : Vilius eft auro argentum , virtutibus qurum . which only fays , that as Silver is of lefs value than Gold , fo Gold is of lefs value than Virtue in which fimple infe- riority , and not the ...
... whole collection , The Original is , : Vilius eft auro argentum , virtutibus qurum . which only fays , that as Silver is of lefs value than Gold , fo Gold is of lefs value than Virtue in which fimple infe- riority , and not the ...
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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.