The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements; together with all his notes: pr. verbatim from the octavo ed. of mr. Warburton, Τόμος 41754 |
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... most part , fpared their Names , and they may escape being laughed at , if they please . I would have fome of them know , it was owing to the request of the learned and candid Friend to whom it is inscribed , that I make not as free use ...
... most part , fpared their Names , and they may escape being laughed at , if they please . I would have fome of them know , it was owing to the request of the learned and candid Friend to whom it is inscribed , that I make not as free use ...
Σελίδα 12
... most detestable things in nature , as a toad , or a beetle , become pleafing when well represented in a work of Art . But it is no lefs eminent for the beauty of the thought . For though a scribler exifts by being thus incorporated ...
... most detestable things in nature , as a toad , or a beetle , become pleafing when well represented in a work of Art . But it is no lefs eminent for the beauty of the thought . For though a scribler exifts by being thus incorporated ...
Σελίδα 21
... if we confider , that in this walk he had all the advantages which the most poetic Imagi- nation could give to a great Genius . M. Voltaire , in a MS . lettes That not for Fame , but Virtue's better end , C 3 TO THE SATIRES . 21.
... if we confider , that in this walk he had all the advantages which the most poetic Imagi- nation could give to a great Genius . M. Voltaire , in a MS . lettes That not for Fame , but Virtue's better end , C 3 TO THE SATIRES . 21.
Σελίδα 23
... most amiable image of steady Virtue , mixed with a modeft concern for his being forced to undergo the fevereft proofs of his love for it , which was the being thought hardly of by his SOVEREIGN . Yet foft by nature , more a dupe than ...
... most amiable image of steady Virtue , mixed with a modeft concern for his being forced to undergo the fevereft proofs of his love for it , which was the being thought hardly of by his SOVEREIGN . Yet foft by nature , more a dupe than ...
Σελίδα 33
... most ornamented , with eafe . For the reft , his harmony and ftrength of numbers , his force and fplendor of colouring , his gravity and fublime of fentiment , would have rather led him to another model . Nor was his temper lefs unlike ...
... most ornamented , with eafe . For the reft , his harmony and ftrength of numbers , his force and fplendor of colouring , his gravity and fublime of fentiment , would have rather led him to another model . Nor was his temper lefs unlike ...
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Σελίδα 49 - Hear this, and tremble! you, who 'scape the Laws. Yes, while I live, no rich or noble knave ^/ Shall walk the World, in credit, to his grave.
Σελίδα 27 - 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 ! On cares like these, if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless those days, preserve my friend!
Σελίδα 12 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Σελίδα 14 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Σελίδα 4 - 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.
Σελίδα 13 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Σελίδα 167 - Bright through the rubbish of some hundred years ; Command old words, that long have slept, to wake, Words that wise Bacon or...
Σελίδα 6 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage!' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Σελίδα 20 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence...
Σελίδα 41 - My head and heart thus flowing thro' my quill, Verse-man or prose-man, term me which you will, Papist or Protestant, or both between, Like good Erasmus in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory.