The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life of the AuthorPhillips & Sampson, 1848 |
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... wife that other men enjoy ; Then most our trouble still when most admired , And still the more we give , the more required Whose fame with pains we guard , but lose with ease , Sure some to vex , but never all to please ; 510 ' Tis what ...
... wife that other men enjoy ; Then most our trouble still when most admired , And still the more we give , the more required Whose fame with pains we guard , but lose with ease , Sure some to vex , but never all to please ; 510 ' Tis what ...
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... wives , and thus your children fall : On all the line a sudden vengeance waits , And frequent hearses shall besiege your gates : There passengers shall stand , and pointing , say , ( While the long funerals blacken all the way , ) ' Lo ...
... wives , and thus your children fall : On all the line a sudden vengeance waits , And frequent hearses shall besiege your gates : There passengers shall stand , and pointing , say , ( While the long funerals blacken all the way , ) ' Lo ...
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... board with saints , and bed with sinners Well , if our author in the wife offends , He has a husband that will make amends : He draws him gentle , tender , and forgiving , 122 POPE'S POETICAL WORKS . Epilogue to Mr Rowe's Jane Shore.
... board with saints , and bed with sinners Well , if our author in the wife offends , He has a husband that will make amends : He draws him gentle , tender , and forgiving , 122 POPE'S POETICAL WORKS . Epilogue to Mr Rowe's Jane Shore.
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... wife : Yet if a friend , a night or so , should need her , He'd recommend her as a special breeder . To lend a wife , few here would scruple make ; But , pray , which of you all would take her back ? Though with the stoic chief our ...
... wife : Yet if a friend , a night or so , should need her , He'd recommend her as a special breeder . To lend a wife , few here would scruple make ; But , pray , which of you all would take her back ? Though with the stoic chief our ...
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... wife . These thoughts he fortified with reasons still ( For none want reasons to confirm their will . ) Grave authors say , and witty poets sing , That honest wedlock is a glorious thing : But depth of judgment most in him appears , Who ...
... wife . These thoughts he fortified with reasons still ( For none want reasons to confirm their will . ) Grave authors say , and witty poets sing , That honest wedlock is a glorious thing : But depth of judgment most in him appears , Who ...
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Seite 240 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Seite 9 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Seite 5 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage !' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Seite 73 - Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire. Blest, who can unconcern'dly find Hours, days, and years, slide soft away, In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day : Sound sleep by night ; study and ease, Together mix'd ; sweet recreation, And innocence which most does please With meditation. Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die : Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where...
Seite 249 - Know, Nature's children all divide her care; The fur that warms a monarch warm'da bear. While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!
Seite 98 - Soft yielding minds to Water glide away, And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental Tea. The graver Prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of mischief still on Earth to roam. The light Coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of Air.
Seite 246 - Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
Seite 236 - Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Seite 78 - Some beauties yet no precepts can declare, For there's a happiness as well as care. Music resembles poetry ; in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master-hand alone can reach. If, where the rules not far enough extend, (Since rules were made but to promote their end) Some lucky license answer to the full Th' intent propos'd, that license is a rule.
Seite 73 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground ; Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire.