The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &cA. Millar [and others], 1757 |
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... Laws , Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus fees his frantic wife elope , And curfes Wit , and Poetry , and Pope . 25 Friend to my Life ! ( which did not you prolong , The world had wanted many an idle fong ) ...
... Laws , Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause : Poor Cornus fees his frantic wife elope , And curfes Wit , and Poetry , and Pope . 25 Friend to my Life ! ( which did not you prolong , The world had wanted many an idle fong ) ...
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... laws , And fit attentive to his own applaufe ; While Wits and Templars ev'ry fentence raise , And wonder with a foolish face of praise- Who but mult laugh , if fuch a man there be ? Who would not weep , if ATTICUS were he ! VARIATIONS ...
... laws , And fit attentive to his own applaufe ; While Wits and Templars ev'ry fentence raise , And wonder with a foolish face of praise- Who but mult laugh , if fuch a man there be ? Who would not weep , if ATTICUS were he ! VARIATIONS ...
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... Laws that brought him thither and this has been as commonly afcribed to the good nature of the people . But it is a mistake . The true caufe is their hatred and envy of power . Their compaffion for Dunces and Scoundrels ( when exposed ...
... Laws that brought him thither and this has been as commonly afcribed to the good nature of the people . But it is a mistake . The true caufe is their hatred and envy of power . Their compaffion for Dunces and Scoundrels ( when exposed ...
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... Law : You'll give me , like a friend both fage and free , Advice ; and ( as you use ) without a Fee . F. I'd write no more . P. Not write ? but then I think , * And for my foul I cannot fleep a wink . " 5 10 VER . 7. Tim'rous by nature ...
... Law : You'll give me , like a friend both fage and free , Advice ; and ( as you use ) without a Fee . F. I'd write no more . P. Not write ? but then I think , * And for my foul I cannot fleep a wink . " 5 10 VER . 7. Tim'rous by nature ...
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... Law and Religion ; and has , therefore , a claim to the protection of those who prefide in the administration either of church or state . Whether the darken'd room to muse invite , Or whiten❜d 46 Book II . LMITATIONS.
... Law and Religion ; and has , therefore , a claim to the protection of those who prefide in the administration either of church or state . Whether the darken'd room to muse invite , Or whiten❜d 46 Book II . LMITATIONS.
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Seite 21 - A Cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust; Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Seite 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.
Seite 17 - Oh let me live my own, and die so too ! (To live and die is all I have to do :) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please ; Above a patron, tho' I condescend Sometimes to call a minister my friend.
Seite 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.
Seite 45 - Slander or Poison dread from Delia's rage, Hard words or hanging, if your Judge be Page.
Seite 17 - And those they left me; for they left me Gay; Left me to see neglected genius bloom, Neglected die, and 'tell it on his tomb: Of all thy blameless...
Seite 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!
Seite 182 - Sir, though (I thank God for it) I do hate Perfectly all this town, yet there's one state In all ill things so excellently best, That hate towards them breeds pity towards the rest.
Seite 6 - Furies, death and rage!" If I approve, "Commend it to the stage.
Seite 24 - If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit...