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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 . What walls can guard me , or what shades can hide ? They
pierce ...
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 . What walls can guard me , or what shades can hide ? They
pierce ...
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... The truth once told ( and wherefore should we lie ? ) The queen of Midas slept ,
and so may 1 . You think this cruel : take it for a rule , No creature smarts so little
as a fool . Let peals of laughter , Codrus ! round thee break , Thou unconcern'd ...
... The truth once told ( and wherefore should we lie ? ) The queen of Midas slept ,
and so may 1 . You think this cruel : take it for a rule , No creature smarts so little
as a fool . Let peals of laughter , Codrus ! round thee break , Thou unconcern'd ...
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... nonsense leaning , Means not , but blunders round about a meaning ; And he ,
whose fustian's so sublimely bad , It is not poetry , but prose run mad : All these
my modest satire bade translate , And own'd that nine such poets made a Tate .
... nonsense leaning , Means not , but blunders round about a meaning ; And he ,
whose fustian's so sublimely bad , It is not poetry , but prose run mad : All these
my modest satire bade translate , And own'd that nine such poets made a Tate .
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Or nobly wild , with Budgell's fire and force , Paint angels trembling round his
fallen horse ? F. Then all your muse's softer art display ; Let Carolina smooth the
tuneful lay ; Lull with Amelia's liquid name the Nine , And sweetly flow through all
...
Or nobly wild , with Budgell's fire and force , Paint angels trembling round his
fallen horse ? F. Then all your muse's softer art display ; Let Carolina smooth the
tuneful lay ; Lull with Amelia's liquid name the Nine , And sweetly flow through all
...
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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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