The Works of Alexander Pope, Том 6J. F. Dove, St. John's Square, 1822 |
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... natural , from the familiar into his own more laboured , high , and pompous manner . See particu- larly line 125 , and also 189 : " Tell how the moon - beam , " & c . And this difference of style is more striking and perceivable , from ...
... natural , from the familiar into his own more laboured , high , and pompous manner . See particu- larly line 125 , and also 189 : " Tell how the moon - beam , " & c . And this difference of style is more striking and perceivable , from ...
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... nature or humour . Horace's Mice are inimitable . The long introductions to the fables of Gay's second volume of fables read like political pamphlets . Ver . 56. ' Twas not a Man , ] This parenthesis comes in but awk- wardly and lamely ...
... nature or humour . Horace's Mice are inimitable . The long introductions to the fables of Gay's second volume of fables read like political pamphlets . Ver . 56. ' Twas not a Man , ] This parenthesis comes in but awk- wardly and lamely ...
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... nature ; for I was once permitted to read a curious manuscript , late in the hands of her Grace the Dutchess Dowager of Portland , containing essays and dialogues of the dead , on the following subjects , by Prior : 1. Heads for a ...
... nature ; for I was once permitted to read a curious manuscript , late in the hands of her Grace the Dutchess Dowager of Portland , containing essays and dialogues of the dead , on the following subjects , by Prior : 1. Heads for a ...
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... nature is so lewd as Peg , Yet , for the world , she would not shew her leg ! While bashful Jenny , ev'n at morning prayer , Spreads her fore - buttocks to the naval bare . But diff'rent taste in diff'rent men prevails , And one is fir ...
... nature is so lewd as Peg , Yet , for the world , she would not shew her leg ! While bashful Jenny , ev'n at morning prayer , Spreads her fore - buttocks to the naval bare . But diff'rent taste in diff'rent men prevails , And one is fir ...
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... nature spread a feast , And giv'n enough for man , enough for beast ? But man corrupt , perverse in all his ways , In search of vanities from nature strays : Yea , tho ' the blessing's more than he can use , Shuns the permitted , the ...
... nature spread a feast , And giv'n enough for man , enough for beast ? But man corrupt , perverse in all his ways , In search of vanities from nature strays : Yea , tho ' the blessing's more than he can use , Shuns the permitted , the ...
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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.