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,C. 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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... tell me so ; but I Know better still than they , both what to try , And what my prudent care must to myself deny . " Sat. 2 . The necessity of Temperance was also no less incumbent upon him than on Pope : " E le vivande condiriami il ...
... tell me so ; but I Know better still than they , both what to try , And what my prudent care must to myself deny . " Sat. 2 . The necessity of Temperance was also no less incumbent upon him than on Pope : " E le vivande condiriami il ...
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... tell his doctor that he had already taken his party , and determined of his remedy . But using a preamble , and intro- ducing it ( in the way of poets ) , with a simile , in which the names of Kings , Queens , and Ministers of State ...
... tell his doctor that he had already taken his party , and determined of his remedy . But using a preamble , and intro- ducing it ( in the way of poets ) , with a simile , in which the names of Kings , Queens , and Ministers of State ...
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... do something in his sempstress ' praise- Ver . 29. in the first Ed . Dear Doctor , tell me , is not this a curse ? Say , is their anger , or their friendship worse ? Seized and tied down to judge , how wretched I THE SATIRES . 41.
... do something in his sempstress ' praise- Ver . 29. in the first Ed . Dear Doctor , tell me , is not this a curse ? Say , is their anger , or their friendship worse ? Seized and tied down to judge , how wretched I THE SATIRES . 41.
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... tell me I could write ; Well - natured Garth inflamed with early praise , And Congreve loved , and Swift endured my lays ; The courtly Talbot , Somers , Sheffield , read , Even mitred Rochester would nod the head , 140 NOTES . Ver . 135 ...
... tell me I could write ; Well - natured Garth inflamed with early praise , And Congreve loved , and Swift endured my lays ; The courtly Talbot , Somers , Sheffield , read , Even mitred Rochester would nod the head , 140 NOTES . Ver . 135 ...
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... tell him fairly to his face , and what deserved praise he would not deny him to the world : and , as a proof of this disposition towards him , he had sent him the inclosed ; which was the CHARACTER , first pub- lished separately , and ...
... tell him fairly to his face , and what deserved praise he would not deny him to the world : and , as a proof of this disposition towards him , he had sent him the inclosed ; which was the CHARACTER , first pub- lished separately , and ...
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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.