The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &cJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... Epiftle . If it have any thing pleafing , it will be that by which I am moft defirous to please , the Truth and the Sen- timent ; and if any thing offenfive , it will be only to ( 4 ) those I am leaft forry to offend * B 2 ( 3 )
... Epiftle . If it have any thing pleafing , it will be that by which I am moft defirous to please , the Truth and the Sen- timent ; and if any thing offenfive , it will be only to ( 4 ) those I am leaft forry to offend * B 2 ( 3 )
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... 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 of theirs as they have done of mine . However , I fhall have this advantage ...
... 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 of theirs as they have done of mine . However , I fhall have this advantage ...
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... please , And born to write , converfe , and live with ease : Should fuch a man , too fond to rule alone , Bear , like the Turk , no brother near the throne , View him with scornful , yet with jealous eyes , And hate for arts that caus'd ...
... please , And born to write , converfe , and live with ease : Should fuch a man , too fond to rule alone , Bear , like the Turk , no brother near the throne , View him with scornful , yet with jealous eyes , And hate for arts that caus'd ...
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... please : Above a Patron , tho ' I condefcend Sometimes to call a Minifter my friend . NOTES . 265 VER . 248. help'd to bury ] Mr. Dryden , after having liv'd in exigencies , had a magnificent Funeral bestow'd up . on him by the ...
... please : Above a Patron , tho ' I condefcend Sometimes to call a Minifter my friend . NOTES . 265 VER . 248. help'd to bury ] Mr. Dryden , after having liv'd in exigencies , had a magnificent Funeral bestow'd up . on him by the ...
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... both which is known to his Grace . Mr. P. never received any prefent , farther than the subscription for Homer , from him , or from Any great Man whatso- ever . P. To please a Mistress one afpers'd his life ; He 28 PROLOGUE.
... both which is known to his Grace . Mr. P. never received any prefent , farther than the subscription for Homer , from him , or from Any great Man whatso- ever . P. To please a Mistress one afpers'd his life ; He 28 PROLOGUE.
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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.