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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... strong the ridicule , And whispers close , " The world will call you fool . " Behold yon wretch , by impious fashion driven , 75 Believes and trembles while he scoffs at Heaven . By weakness strong , and bold through fear alone , He ...
... strong the ridicule , And whispers close , " The world will call you fool . " Behold yon wretch , by impious fashion driven , 75 Believes and trembles while he scoffs at Heaven . By weakness strong , and bold through fear alone , He ...
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... strong sinew'd , rends th ' unequal toils : The stream of vice impetuous drives along , Too deep for policy , for power too strong . Even fair Religion , native of the skies , Scorn'd by the crowd , seeks refuge with the wise ; The ...
... strong sinew'd , rends th ' unequal toils : The stream of vice impetuous drives along , Too deep for policy , for power too strong . Even fair Religion , native of the skies , Scorn'd by the crowd , seeks refuge with the wise ; The ...
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... strong th ' example , weak the punishment . They least are pain'd , who merit Satire most ; Folly the Laureat's , vice was Chartres ' boast : Then where's the wrong , to gibbet high the name Of fools and knaves already dead to shame ...
... strong th ' example , weak the punishment . They least are pain'd , who merit Satire most ; Folly the Laureat's , vice was Chartres ' boast : Then where's the wrong , to gibbet high the name Of fools and knaves already dead to shame ...
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... strong may every colour flow ; Here let the pencil warm , the canvas glow ; Of light and shade provoke the noble strife , And wake each striking feature into life . 360 PART III . THROUGH ages thus has SATIRE keenly shined 18 PART II ...
... strong may every colour flow ; Here let the pencil warm , the canvas glow ; Of light and shade provoke the noble strife , And wake each striking feature into life . 360 PART III . THROUGH ages thus has SATIRE keenly shined 18 PART II ...
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... strong antipathy of bad to good , enemies they will always be , either open or secret ; and it admits of no question , but a slanderer is less hurtful than a flatterer . For , says he , ( in a pleasant simile addressed to his friend's ...
... strong antipathy of bad to good , enemies they will always be , either open or secret ; and it admits of no question , but a slanderer is less hurtful than a flatterer . For , says he , ( in a pleasant simile addressed to his friend's ...
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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.