The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks,, Том 6C. and J. Rivington; T. Cadell; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green; J. Cuthell; J. Nunn; ... [and 25 others in London]; and Deighton and Sons, Cambridge; and A. Black, and J. Fairbairn, Edinburgh., 1824 |
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... PIECES The Fourth Epistle of the First Book of Horace The Translator The Looking Glass A Farewell to London , 1715 Prologue designed for Mr. D'Urfey's last play Prologue to the Three Hours after Marriage Sandys ' Ghost Umbra Page • 430 ...
... PIECES The Fourth Epistle of the First Book of Horace The Translator The Looking Glass A Farewell to London , 1715 Prologue designed for Mr. D'Urfey's last play Prologue to the Three Hours after Marriage Sandys ' Ghost Umbra Page • 430 ...
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... pieces of his are enumerated in the Biogra- phia Britannica , where a further account of the circumstances of his life ... piece does great credit ; and in the situation where it is now placed , it may serve as no unsuitable introduction ...
... pieces of his are enumerated in the Biogra- phia Britannica , where a further account of the circumstances of his life ... piece does great credit ; and in the situation where it is now placed , it may serve as no unsuitable introduction ...
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... piece was published in the year 1734 , in the form of an Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot . It is now given as a Dialogue , in which a very small share , indeed , is allotted to his friend . Ar- buthnot was a man of consummate probity ...
... piece was published in the year 1734 , in the form of an Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot . It is now given as a Dialogue , in which a very small share , indeed , is allotted to his friend . Ar- buthnot was a man of consummate probity ...
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... piece nine years . " " Nine years ! " cries he , who high in Drury - lane , Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane , Rhymes ere he wakes , and prints before Term ends , Obliged by hunger and request of friends : " The piece ...
... piece nine years . " " Nine years ! " cries he , who high in Drury - lane , Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane , Rhymes ere he wakes , and prints before Term ends , Obliged by hunger and request of friends : " The piece ...
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... pieces : persons with whom he was con- versant ( and he adds beloved ) at 16 or 17 years of age ; an early period for such acquaintance . The catalogue might be made yet more illustrious , had he not confined it to that time when he ...
... pieces : persons with whom he was con- versant ( and he adds beloved ) at 16 or 17 years of age ; an early period for such acquaintance . The catalogue might be made yet more illustrious , had he not confined it to that time when he ...
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Страница 177 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Страница 41 - A clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross?
Страница 40 - 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 my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land, by water, they renew the charge, They stop the chariot, and they board the barge.
Страница 36 - 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 a while one parent from the sky!
Страница 75 - Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do:) Maintain a Poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please : Above a Patron, tho...
Страница 464 - So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song, As had drawn both the beasts and their Orpheus along : But such is thy avarice, and such is thy pride, That the beasts must have starved, and the poet have died. VOL. V. K THE BALANCE OF EUROPE. Now Europe balanced, neither side prevails ; For nothing's left in either of the scales.
Страница 81 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings...
Страница 63 - 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, Alike...
Страница 46 - He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew: Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain, The creature's at his dirty work again...
Страница 388 - Yes, I am proud ; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me : Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone. O sacred weapon ! left for Truth's defence, Sole dread of folly, vice, and insolence ! To all but Heaven-directed hands denied, The Muse may give thee, but the gods must guide.