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The bard whom pilfer'd pastorals renown , Who turns a Persian tale for half a
crown ; Just writes to make his barrenness appear , And strains from hard -
bound brains eight lines a year He who , still wanting , though he lives on theft ,
Steals ...
The bard whom pilfer'd pastorals renown , Who turns a Persian tale for half a
crown ; Just writes to make his barrenness appear , And strains from hard -
bound brains eight lines a year He who , still wanting , though he lives on theft ,
Steals ...
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Whether in florid impotence he speaks , And as the prompter breathes , the
puppet squeaks , Or at the ear of Eve , familiar toad , Half froth , half venom , spits
himself abroad , In puns , or politics , or tales , or lies , Or spite , or smut , or
rhymes ...
Whether in florid impotence he speaks , And as the prompter breathes , the
puppet squeaks , Or at the ear of Eve , familiar toad , Half froth , half venom , spits
himself abroad , In puns , or politics , or tales , or lies , Or spite , or smut , or
rhymes ...
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... That not for fame , but virtue's better end , He stood the furious foe , the timid
friend , The damning critic , half - approving wit , The coxcomb hit , or fearing to
be hit : Laugh'd at the loss of friends he never had , The dull , the proud , the
wicked ...
... That not for fame , but virtue's better end , He stood the furious foe , the timid
friend , The damning critic , half - approving wit , The coxcomb hit , or fearing to
be hit : Laugh'd at the loss of friends he never had , The dull , the proud , the
wicked ...
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Sell their presented partridges and fruits , And humbly live on rabbits and on
roots ; One half - pint bottle serves them both to dine ; And is at once their vinegar
and wine . But on some lucky day ( as when they found A lost bank bill , or heard
...
Sell their presented partridges and fruits , And humbly live on rabbits and on
roots ; One half - pint bottle serves them both to dine ; And is at once their vinegar
and wine . But on some lucky day ( as when they found A lost bank bill , or heard
...
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Shall half the new - built churches round thee fall ? Make keys , build bridges , or
repair Whitehall : Or to thy country let that heap be lent , As M ** o's was , but not
at five per cent . Who thinks that fortune cannot change her mind , Prepares a ...
Shall half the new - built churches round thee fall ? Make keys , build bridges , or
repair Whitehall : Or to thy country let that heap be lent , As M ** o's was , but not
at five per cent . Who thinks that fortune cannot change her mind , Prepares a ...
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Страница 54 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
Страница 6 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Страница 106 - twixt reading and Bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary Tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon...
Страница 12 - Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise ; To some a dry rehearsal was assign'd, And others (harder still) he paid in kind.
Страница 11 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Страница 6 - And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire dilemma! either way I'm sped, If foes, they write, — if friends, they read me dead.
Страница 280 - Some gentle James, to bless the land again ; To stick the doctor's chair into the throne, Give law to words, or war with words alone, Senates and courts with Greek and Latin rule, And turn the council to a grammar school ! For sure, if Dulness sees a grateful day, 'Tis in the shade of arbitrary sway.
Страница 14 - What ? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of Ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P.
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| Заглавие | The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author ... Том 2 от The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author, Theophilus Cibber |
| Автор | Alexander Pope |
| Издател | Z. & B. F. Pratt, 1846 |
| Оригиналът е от | Мичиганският университет |
| Цифровизирана на | 25 май 2007 |
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