The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &cJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... 'd , Had heir'd as well the virtues of the mind . * Curl fet up his head for a fign . His Father was crooked , His mother was much afflicted with head - achs , 140 The courtly Talbot , Somers , Sheffield read , 12 PROLOGUE.
... 'd , Had heir'd as well the virtues of the mind . * Curl fet up his head for a fign . His Father was crooked , His mother was much afflicted with head - achs , 140 The courtly Talbot , Somers , Sheffield read , 12 PROLOGUE.
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... Virtue fcandal , Innocence a fear , Or from the foft - ey'd Virgin steal a tear ! But he who hurts a harmless neighbour's peace , Infults fall'n worth , or Beauty in distress , Who loves a Lye , lame flander helps about , Who writes a ...
... Virtue fcandal , Innocence a fear , Or from the foft - ey'd Virgin steal a tear ! But he who hurts a harmless neighbour's peace , Infults fall'n worth , or Beauty in distress , Who loves a Lye , lame flander helps about , Who writes a ...
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... Virtue's better end , He ftood the furious foe , the timid friend , The damning critic , half approving wit , The coxcomb hit , or fearing to be hit ; Laugh'd at the lofs of friends he never had , The dull , the proud , the wicked , and ...
... Virtue's better end , He ftood the furious foe , the timid friend , The damning critic , half approving wit , The coxcomb hit , or fearing to be hit ; Laugh'd at the lofs of friends he never had , The dull , the proud , the wicked , and ...
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... Virtue ! all the past : For thee , fair Virtue ! welcome ev'n the last ! A. But why infult the poor , affront the great ? 360 P. A knave's a knave , to me , in ev'ry state : Alike my scorn , if he succeed or fail , Sporus at court , or ...
... Virtue ! all the past : For thee , fair Virtue ! welcome ev'n the last ! A. But why infult the poor , affront the great ? 360 P. A knave's a knave , to me , in ev'ry state : Alike my scorn , if he succeed or fail , Sporus at court , or ...
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... Virtue , or in Song . Of gentle blood ( part shed in Honour's cause , While yet in Britain Honour had applause ) 386 Each parent fprung - A . What fortune , pray ? —P . Their own , And better got , than Beftia's from the throne . Born ...
... Virtue , or in Song . Of gentle blood ( part shed in Honour's cause , While yet in Britain Honour had applause ) 386 Each parent fprung - A . What fortune , pray ? —P . Their own , And better got , than Beftia's from the throne . Born ...
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Seite 18 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Seite 17 - 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...
Seite 51 - 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.
Seite 243 - Before her dance; behind her crawl the Old! See thronging Millions to the Pagod run, And offer Country, Parent, Wife, or Son! Hear her black Trumpet thro' the Land proclaim, That "Not to be corrupted is the Shame.
Seite 19 - d by ev'ry quill ; Fed with soft dedication all day long, Horace and he went hand in hand in song.
Seite 234 - Seen him, uncumber'd with the Venal tribe, Smile without Art, and win without a Bribe. Would he oblige me ? let me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind.
Seite 6 - 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.
Seite 30 - Bestia's from the throne. Born to no pride, inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious through his age. No courts he saw, no suits would ever try, Nor dar'd an oath, nor hazarded a lie.
Seite 244 - Are what ten thousand envy and adore : All, all look up with reverential awe, At crimes that 'scape or triumph o'er the law ; While truth, worth, wisdom, daily they decry : Nothing is sacred now but villainy.
Seite 157 - Besides, a fate attends on all I write, That when I aim at praise they say I bite. A vile encomium doubly ridicules : There's nothing blackens like the ink of fools. If true, a woful likeness ; and, if lies, ' Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.