The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &cJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... was only through an honest warmth of temper , that allowed too little to an excellent understand- ing . The other two , with very bad heads , had hearts ftill worse . Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While to the SATIRES . 13.
... was only through an honest warmth of temper , that allowed too little to an excellent understand- ing . The other two , with very bad heads , had hearts ftill worse . Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While to the SATIRES . 13.
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... heart or understanding . VER . 294. And how the fense of it without the love ; ] i . e . will never fuffer the admiration of an excellence to produce any efteem for him , to whom it belongs . VER . 295. Who has the vanity to call you ...
... heart or understanding . VER . 294. And how the fense of it without the love ; ] i . e . will never fuffer the admiration of an excellence to produce any efteem for him , to whom it belongs . VER . 295. Who has the vanity to call you ...
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... heart , Fop at the toilet , flatt'rer at the board , Now trips a Lady , and now struts a Lord . Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have exprest , A Cherub's face , a reptile all the reft , Beauty that shocks you , parts that none will truft ...
... heart , Fop at the toilet , flatt'rer at the board , Now trips a Lady , and now struts a Lord . Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have exprest , A Cherub's face , a reptile all the reft , Beauty that shocks you , parts that none will truft ...
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... Heart , and as thy Birth obscure , had fallen from a like Courtly pen , in certain Verfes to the Imitation of Horace . Mr. Pope's Father was of a Gen- tleman's Family in Oxfordshire , the head of which was the Earl of Downe , whofe fole ...
... Heart , and as thy Birth obscure , had fallen from a like Courtly pen , in certain Verfes to the Imitation of Horace . Mr. Pope's Father was of a Gen- tleman's Family in Oxfordshire , the head of which was the Earl of Downe , whofe fole ...
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... heart . By Nature honest , by Experience wife , Healthy by temp'rance , and by exercise ; His life , tho ' long , to fickness past unknown , His death was inftant , and without a groan . 400 O grant me , thus to live , and thus to die ...
... heart . By Nature honest , by Experience wife , Healthy by temp'rance , and by exercise ; His life , tho ' long , to fickness past unknown , His death was inftant , and without a groan . 400 O grant me , thus to live , and thus to die ...
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Страница 19 - d by ev'ry quill ; Fed with soft dedication all day long, Horace and he went hand in hand in song.
Страница 234 - Seen him, uncumber'd with the Venal tribe, Smile without Art, and win without a Bribe. Would he oblige me ? let me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind.
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Страница 30 - Bestia's from the throne. Born to no pride, inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious through his age. No courts he saw, no suits would ever try, Nor dar'd an oath, nor hazarded a lie.
Страница 244 - Are what ten thousand envy and adore : All, all look up with reverential awe, At crimes that 'scape or triumph o'er the law ; While truth, worth, wisdom, daily they decry : Nothing is sacred now but villainy.
Страница 157 - Besides, a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praise they say I bite. A vile encomium doubly ridicules : There's nothing blackens like the ink of fools. If true, a woful likeness ; and, if lies, ' Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.