The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author ... |
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Amphibious thing ! that , acting either part , The trifling head , or the corrupted
heart ; Fop at the toilet , flatterer at the board , Now trips a lady , and now struts a
lord . Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have express'd , A cherub's POPE'S
POETICAL ...
Amphibious thing ! that , acting either part , The trifling head , or the corrupted
heart ; Fop at the toilet , flatterer at the board , Now trips a lady , and now struts a
lord . Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have express'd , A cherub's POPE'S
POETICAL ...
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Unlearn'd , he knew no schoolman's subtle art , No language but the language of
the heart . By nature honest , by experience wise ; Healthy by temperance and by
exercise ; His life , though long , to sickness pass'd unknown , His death was ...
Unlearn'd , he knew no schoolman's subtle art , No language but the language of
the heart . By nature honest , by experience wise ; Healthy by temperance and by
exercise ; His life , though long , to sickness pass'd unknown , His death was ...
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... the present age ; but where my text Is vice too high , reserve it for the next : My
foes shall wish my life a longer date , And every friend the less lament my fate .
My head and heart thus flowing through my quill , 20 POPE'S POETICAL WORKS
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... the present age ; but where my text Is vice too high , reserve it for the next : My
foes shall wish my life a longer date , And every friend the less lament my fate .
My head and heart thus flowing through my quill , 20 POPE'S POETICAL WORKS
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My head and heart thus flowing through my quill , Verseman or Proseman , 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 ...
My head and heart thus flowing through my quill , Verseman or Proseman , 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 ...
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P. What ! arm'd for Virtue when I point the per Brand the bold front of shameless
guilty men ; Dash the proud gamester in his gilded car ; Bare the mean heart that
lurks beneath a star ; Can there be wanting , to defend her cause , Lights of the ...
P. What ! arm'd for Virtue when I point the per Brand the bold front of shameless
guilty men ; Dash the proud gamester in his gilded car ; Bare the mean heart that
lurks beneath a star ; Can there be wanting , to defend her cause , Lights of the ...
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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.