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... daggled through the town , To fetch and carry sing - song up and down ; Nor at
rehearsals sweat , and mouth'd , and cried , With handkerchief and orange at my
side : But sick of fops , and poetry , and prate , To Bufo left the whole Castalian ...
... daggled through the town , To fetch and carry sing - song up and down ; Nor at
rehearsals sweat , and mouth'd , and cried , With handkerchief and orange at my
side : But sick of fops , and poetry , and prate , To Bufo left the whole Castalian ...
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... except his will ; Let the two Curlls of town and court abuse His father , mother ,
body , soul , and muse Yet why ? that father held it for a rule , It was a sin to call
our neighbour fool : That harmless mother thought no wife a whore : Hear this
and ...
... except his will ; Let the two Curlls of town and court abuse His father , mother ,
body , soul , and muse Yet why ? that father held it for a rule , It was a sin to call
our neighbour fool : That harmless mother thought no wife a whore : Hear this
and ...
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Now let some whimsy , or that devil within , Which guides all those who know not
what they mean , But give the knight ( or give his lady ) spleen ; * Away , away !
take all your scaffolds down , For snug ' s the word : my dear , we'll live in town ...
Now let some whimsy , or that devil within , Which guides all those who know not
what they mean , But give the knight ( or give his lady ) spleen ; * Away , away !
take all your scaffolds down , For snug ' s the word : my dear , we'll live in town ...
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Horace here pleads the cause of his contemporaries , first against the taste of the
town , whose humour it was to magnify the authors of the preceding age ;
secondly , against the court and nobility , who encourage only the writers for the
theatre ...
Horace here pleads the cause of his contemporaries , first against the taste of the
town , whose humour it was to magnify the authors of the preceding age ;
secondly , against the court and nobility , who encourage only the writers for the
theatre ...
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... straining with too weak a wing , We needs will write epistles to the king ; And
from the moment we oblige the town , Expect a place or pension from the crown ;
Or , dubb'd historians by express command , To enrol your triumphs o'er the seas
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... straining with too weak a wing , We needs will write epistles to the king ; And
from the moment we oblige the town , Expect a place or pension from the crown ;
Or , dubb'd historians by express command , To enrol your triumphs o'er the seas
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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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