The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe, Band 51847 |
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... LADY FRANCES SHIRLEY , on receiving from her a Standish and Two Pens 106 1740 : A POEM 109 FRAGMENTS AND FUGITIVE PIECES The Fourth Epistle of the First Book of Horace 117 The Translator 119 The Looking Glass ib . Prologue designed for ...
... LADY FRANCES SHIRLEY , on receiving from her a Standish and Two Pens 106 1740 : A POEM 109 FRAGMENTS AND FUGITIVE PIECES The Fourth Epistle of the First Book of Horace 117 The Translator 119 The Looking Glass ib . Prologue designed for ...
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... Lady , with the Temple of Fame On the Countess of Burlington cutting paper POEMS on reading the Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver To Quinbus Flestrin , the Man - Mountain To Mr. Lemuel Gulliver , the grateful address of the unhappy ...
... Lady , with the Temple of Fame On the Countess of Burlington cutting paper POEMS on reading the Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver To Quinbus Flestrin , the Man - Mountain To Mr. Lemuel Gulliver , the grateful address of the unhappy ...
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... lady's ear With rhymes of this per cent . and that per year ? Or court a wife , spread out his wily parts , Like nets , or lime twigs , for rich widows ' hearts ; Call himself barrister to every wench , And woo in language of the Pleas ...
... lady's ear With rhymes of this per cent . and that per year ? Or court a wife , spread out his wily parts , Like nets , or lime twigs , for rich widows ' hearts ; Call himself barrister to every wench , And woo in language of the Pleas ...
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... lady is not painted . Thus He with home meats cloyes me . spit , Look pale and sickly , like a patient , yet I belch , spue , He thrusts on more , and as he had undertook , To say Gallo - Belgicus without book , Speaks of all states and ...
... lady is not painted . Thus He with home meats cloyes me . spit , Look pale and sickly , like a patient , yet I belch , spue , He thrusts on more , and as he had undertook , To say Gallo - Belgicus without book , Speaks of all states and ...
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... lady's face , & c . ] The original is here very humorous . This torrent of scandal concludes thus : " And wiser than all us , He knows what Lady " " the reader expects it will conclude — what lady is painted . No , just the contrary , " ...
... lady's face , & c . ] The original is here very humorous . This torrent of scandal concludes thus : " And wiser than all us , He knows what Lady " " the reader expects it will conclude — what lady is painted . No , just the contrary , " ...
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Seite 249 - Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy!
Seite 64 - 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 touch'd and sham'd by ridicule alone.
Seite 355 - 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...
Seite 366 - 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...
Seite 79 - VE often wish'd that I had clear For life, six hundred pounds a year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end, A terrace-walk, and half a rood Of land, set out to plant a wood.
Seite 357 - The fluttering fan be Zephyretta's care ; The drops to thee, Brillante, we consign ; And, Momentilla, let the watch be thine ; Do thou, Crispissa, tend her favourite Lock ; Ariel himself shall be the guard of Shock. " To fifty chosen sylphs, of special note, We trust th...
Seite 471 - It furnishes art with all her materials, and without it judgment itself can at best but 'steal wisely' : for art is only like a prudent steward that lives on managing the riches of nature. Whatever praises may be given to works of judgment, there is not even a single beauty in them to which the invention...
Seite 57 - If we think to regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. No music must be heard, no song be set or sung, but what is grave and Doric. There must be licensing dancers, that no gesture, motion or deportment be taught our youth but what by their allowance shall be thought honest; for such Plato was provided of. It will ask more than the work of twenty licensers to examine all the lutes, the violins and the...
Seite 449 - Homer himself drew not his art so immediately from the fountains of nature, it proceeded through ^Egyptian strainers and channels and came to him not without some tincture of the learning, or some cast of the models, of those before him.
Seite 247 - To which thou may'st add, To see her beauties no man needs to stoop, She has the whole horizon for her hoop. 4. The ANTITHESIS, or SEE-SAW,! whereby contraries and oppositions are balanced in such a way, as to cause a reader to remain suspended between them, to his exceeding delight and recreation.