The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author ...Z. & B. F. Pratt, 1846 |
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... duke of Shrewsbury , who had been secretary of state ; neither of whom looked upon a satire on vicious courts as any reflection on those they served in . And , IMITATIONS OF HORACE . 17 Satires and Epistles of Horace, Imitated.
... duke of Shrewsbury , who had been secretary of state ; neither of whom looked upon a satire on vicious courts as any reflection on those they served in . And , IMITATIONS OF HORACE . 17 Satires and Epistles of Horace, Imitated.
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... court ; Whether old age , with faint but cheerful ray , Attends to gild the evening of my day , Or Death's black wing already be display'd , To wrap me in the universal shade ; Whether the darken'd room to muse invite , Or whiten'd wall ...
... court ; Whether old age , with faint but cheerful ray , Attends to gild the evening of my day , Or Death's black wing already be display'd , To wrap me in the universal shade ; Whether the darken'd room to muse invite , Or whiten'd wall ...
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... court to make a friend . ' Tis yet in vain , I own , to keep a pother About one vice , and fall into the other : Between excess and famine lies a mean ; Plain , but not sordid ; though not splendid , clean Avidien , or his wife , ( no ...
... court to make a friend . ' Tis yet in vain , I own , to keep a pother About one vice , and fall into the other : Between excess and famine lies a mean ; Plain , but not sordid ; though not splendid , clean Avidien , or his wife , ( no ...
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... court - jargon , or the good old song ? The modern language of corrupted peers , Or what was spoke at Cressy or Poitiers ? Who counsels best ? who whispers , ' Be but great , With praise or infamy , leave that to fate ; Get place and ...
... court - jargon , or the good old song ? The modern language of corrupted peers , Or what was spoke at Cressy or Poitiers ? Who counsels best ? who whispers , ' Be but great , With praise or infamy , leave that to fate ; Get place and ...
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... courts to gaze , And pay the great our homage of amaze ? If weak the pleasure that from these can spring The fear to want them is as weak a thing : Whether we dread , or whether we desire , In either case , believe me , we admire ...
... courts to gaze , And pay the great our homage of amaze ? If weak the pleasure that from these can spring The fear to want them is as weak a thing : Whether we dread , or whether we desire , In either case , believe me , we admire ...
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Страница 6 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay '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.
Страница 106 - twixt reading and Bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary Tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon...
Страница 12 - Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise ; To some a dry rehearsal was assign'd, And others (harder still) he paid in kind.
Страница 11 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Страница 6 - 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 ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire dilemma! either way I'm sped, If foes, they write, — if friends, they read me dead.
Страница 280 - Some gentle James, to bless the land again ; To stick the doctor's chair into the throne, Give law to words, or war with words alone, Senates and courts with Greek and Latin rule, And turn the council to a grammar school ! For sure, if Dulness sees a grateful day, 'Tis in the shade of arbitrary sway.
Страница 14 - What ? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of Ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P.
Страница 306 - In vain ! They gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word ; Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Страница 305 - Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly! In vain! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die, Religion blushing veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.