The Works of Alexander Pope, Том 6J. F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... Wife , I trust that sinking Fund , my Life . Can I retrench ? Yes , mighty well , Shrink back to my Paternal Cell , A little House , with Trees a - row , And , like its Master , very low . There died my Father , no Man's Debtor , And ...
... Wife , I trust that sinking Fund , my Life . Can I retrench ? Yes , mighty well , Shrink back to my Paternal Cell , A little House , with Trees a - row , And , like its Master , very low . There died my Father , no Man's Debtor , And ...
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... wives I never sin : ' But singing - girls and mimics draw him in . Sure , worthy Sir , the diff'rence is not great , With whom you lose your credit and ... wife . Villius in Fausta Sullæ gener , hoc miser uno Nomine SAT . IL 43 OF HORACE .
... wives I never sin : ' But singing - girls and mimics draw him in . Sure , worthy Sir , the diff'rence is not great , With whom you lose your credit and ... wife . Villius in Fausta Sullæ gener , hoc miser uno Nomine SAT . IL 43 OF HORACE .
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... wife . NOTES . * The Dutchess of Cleveland was said to have been in love with Jacob Hall , the famous rope - dancer , and she gave him a salary . In these lines Pope alludes to this connexion . A Nec magis huic , inter niveos viridesque ...
... wife . NOTES . * The Dutchess of Cleveland was said to have been in love with Jacob Hall , the famous rope - dancer , and she gave him a salary . In these lines Pope alludes to this connexion . A Nec magis huic , inter niveos viridesque ...
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Alexander Pope. From gleaming swords no shriek ng women run ; No wretched wife cries out , Undone ! Undone ! Seiz'd in the fact , and in her cuckold's pow'r , She kneels , she weeps , and worse ! resigns her dow'r . Me , naked me , to ...
Alexander Pope. From gleaming swords no shriek ng women run ; No wretched wife cries out , Undone ! Undone ! Seiz'd in the fact , and in her cuckold's pow'r , She kneels , she weeps , and worse ! resigns her dow'r . Me , naked me , to ...
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... wife was a Lady of singular beauty , whom not for that reason only he espoused , but because she was undoubted daughter either of the great Scriverius , or of Gasper Barthius . It happened on a time , the said Gasper made a visit to ...
... wife was a Lady of singular beauty , whom not for that reason only he espoused , but because she was undoubted daughter either of the great Scriverius , or of Gasper Barthius . It happened on a time , the said Gasper made a visit to ...
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Страница 377 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Страница 369 - And strike to dust th' imperial tow'rs of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair nymph! thy hairs should feel The conqu'ring force of unresisted steel?
Страница 364 - Methinks already I your tears survey, Already hear the horrid things they say, Already see you a degraded toast, And all your honour in a whisper lost! How shall I then your helpless fame defend? 'Twill then be infamy to seem your friend! And shall this prize, th...
Страница 376 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void...
Страница 372 - Her great great grandsire wore about his neck, In three seal-rings; which after, melted down, Form'da vast buckle for his widow's gown: Her infant grandame's whistle next it grew, The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew; Then in a bodkin grac'd her mother's hairs, Which long she wore, and now Belinda wears. ) "Boast not my fall
Страница 365 - Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain; Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide: Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 'Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th...
Страница 257 - THE DESCRIPTIONS. For a tempest.—" Take Eurus, Zephyr, Auster and Boreas, and cast them together in one verse. Add to these of rain, lightning, and of thunder, the loudest you can, quantum sufficit.
Страница 19 - Tis (let me see) three years and more (October next it will be four) Since Harley bid me first attend, And chose me for an humble friend; Would take me in his coach to chat, And question me of this and that; As,
Страница 386 - He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes ; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
Страница 304 - Jerusalem with iniquity: the heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, "Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.