The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &cJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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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 ...
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... most deteftable things in na- ture , 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 fcribler exifts by being thus incorporated ...
... most deteftable things in na- ture , 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 fcribler exifts by being thus incorporated ...
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... most amiable image of steady Virtue , mixed with a modest 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 modest 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 ...
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... most ornamented , with ease . For the reft , his harmony and ftrength of numbers , his force and fplendor of colouring , his gravity and fu- blime of fentiment , would have rather led him to another model . Nor was his temper lefs ...
... most ornamented , with ease . For the reft , his harmony and ftrength of numbers , his force and fplendor of colouring , his gravity and fu- blime of fentiment , would have rather led him to another model . Nor was his temper lefs ...
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... most humourous part of the answer , Peream male , fi non Optimum erat , and has loft the grace , by not imitating the concifenefs , of verum nequeo dormire . T. f Ter uncti Tranfnanto Tiberim , fomno quibus eft * D 4 Sat. I. OF HORACE . 39.
... most humourous part of the answer , Peream male , fi non Optimum erat , and has loft the grace , by not imitating the concifenefs , of verum nequeo dormire . T. f Ter uncti Tranfnanto Tiberim , fomno quibus eft * D 4 Sat. I. OF HORACE . 39.
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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.