The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Carefully Collated and Compared with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and CommentatorsEditor, and sold, 1778 |
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... it the shortest way to put the laft hand to this Epiftle . If it have any thing pleasing , it will be that by which I am most defirous to please , the Truth and the Sentiment ; and if any thing offenfive , it will be only to those I am ...
... it the shortest way to put the laft hand to this Epiftle . If it have any thing pleasing , it will be that by which I am most defirous to please , the Truth and the Sentiment ; and if any thing offenfive , it will be only to those I am ...
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... it , make it . " Three things another's modeft wishes bound , My friendship , and a Prologue , and ten pound . Pitholeon fends to me : " You know his grace , " I want a patron ; ask him for a place . " Pitholeon libell'd me- but here's ...
... it , make it . " Three things another's modeft wishes bound , My friendship , and a Prologue , and ten pound . Pitholeon fends to me : " You know his grace , " I want a patron ; ask him for a place . " Pitholeon libell'd me- but here's ...
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... It ftands on record , that in Richard's times , A man was hang'd * for very honeft rhymes ; Confult the statute , quart . I think it is , Edvardi fext . or prim , et quint . Eliz . See Libels , Satires - here you have it — read . P ...
... It ftands on record , that in Richard's times , A man was hang'd * for very honeft rhymes ; Confult the statute , quart . I think it is , Edvardi fext . or prim , et quint . Eliz . See Libels , Satires - here you have it — read . P ...
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... it would ferve to abuse " and find fault . For wit ( fays he ) is a keen instrument , and every one " can cut and gash with it . But to carve a beautiful image and polish it , re quires great art and dexterity . To praife a thing well ...
... it would ferve to abuse " and find fault . For wit ( fays he ) is a keen instrument , and every one " can cut and gash with it . But to carve a beautiful image and polish it , re quires great art and dexterity . To praife a thing well ...
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... it too : Yet here , as ev'n in Hell , there must be ftill One giant - vice , so excellently ill , That all befide , one pities , not abhors ; S As who knows Sappho , fmiles at other whores . I grant that poetry's a crying fin ; It ...
... it too : Yet here , as ev'n in Hell , there must be ftill One giant - vice , so excellently ill , That all befide , one pities , not abhors ; S As who knows Sappho , fmiles at other whores . I grant that poetry's a crying fin ; It ...
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Страница 127 - And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so well enlarged upon in the preface to his works: That wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn.
Страница 2 - Pope. Friend to my life, (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love?
Страница 104 - 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.
Страница 3 - The truth once told (and wherefore should we lie?) The Queen of Midas slept, and so may I. You think this cruel ? take it for a rule, No creature smarts so little as a fool. Let peals of laughter, Codrus ! round thee break, 85 Thou unconcern'd canst hear the mighty crack: Pit, box, and gall'ry in convulsions hurl'd, Thou stand'st unshook amidst a bursting world. Who shames a Scribbler? break one cobweb thro...
Страница 9 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or, at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad...
Страница 281 - We only furnish what he cannot use, Or wed to what he must divorce, a muse: Full in the midst of Euclid dip at once, And petrify a genius to a dunce: Or set on metaphysic ground to prance, Show all his paces, not a step advance.
Страница 11 - If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit...
Страница 2 - And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove?
Страница 171 - Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, Where o'er the gates, by his fam'd father's hand Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand; One Cell there is, conceal'd from vulgar eye, The Cave of Poverty and Poetry. Keen, hollow winds howl thro' the bleak recess, Emblem of Music caus'd by Emptiness.
Страница 127 - ... or science, which have not been touched upon by others ; we have little else left us but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights. If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry...