The Works of Alexander Pope, Том 4J. F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... -There are many admirable passages in Harte's Essay on Human Reason , which was much praised on its first publication and is said to have been corrected by Pope . Who can your merit selfishly approve , And shew the 42 PROLOGUE.
... -There are many admirable passages in Harte's Essay on Human Reason , which was much praised on its first publication and is said to have been corrected by Pope . Who can your merit selfishly approve , And shew the 42 PROLOGUE.
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Alexander Pope. Who can your merit selfishly approve , And shew the sense of it without the love ; Who has the vanity to call you friend , 295 300 Yet wants the honour , injur'd to defend ; Who tells whate'er you think , whate'er you say ...
Alexander Pope. Who can your merit selfishly approve , And shew the sense of it without the love ; Who has the vanity to call you friend , 295 300 Yet wants the honour , injur'd to defend ; Who tells whate'er you think , whate'er you say ...
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... shew what it is a Citizen esteems the greatest aggravation of the offence . W. Ver . 41. What should ail ' em ? ] Horace hints at one reason , that each fears his own turn may be next ; his imitator gives another , and with more art , a ...
... shew what it is a Citizen esteems the greatest aggravation of the offence . W. Ver . 41. What should ail ' em ? ] Horace hints at one reason , that each fears his own turn may be next ; his imitator gives another , and with more art , a ...
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... shew the satire to be a serious reproof , and therefore justifiable ; which in the integer ipse of the original does not for however this might plead in mitigation of the offence , nothing but their being grave Epistles could justify ...
... shew the satire to be a serious reproof , and therefore justifiable ; which in the integer ipse of the original does not for however this might plead in mitigation of the offence , nothing but their being grave Epistles could justify ...
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... shew me one who has it in his pow'r To act consistent with himself an hour . g 132 135 Sir Job sail'd forth , the ev'ning bright and still , " No place on earth ( he cry'd ) like Greenwich - hill ! " Up starts a Palace , lo , th ...
... shew me one who has it in his pow'r To act consistent with himself an hour . g 132 135 Sir Job sail'd forth , the ev'ning bright and still , " No place on earth ( he cry'd ) like Greenwich - hill ! " Up starts a Palace , lo , th ...
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Страница 32 - Peace to all such ! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone. Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Страница 32 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Страница 13 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse." If I dislike it, "Furies, death, and rage!" If I approve, "Commend it to the stage.
Страница 408 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.
Страница 45 - So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. 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, or blasphemies.
Страница 53 - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Страница 11 - 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?
Страница 52 - 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.
Страница 34 - 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 load, On wings of winds came flying all abroad?
Страница 369 - It is to the strength of this amazing invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture which is so forcible in Homer that no man of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him.