The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &cA. Millar [and others], 1757 |
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... must laugh , if fuch a man there be ? ] While a Character is unapplied , all the various parts of it will be considered together ; and if the affemblage of them be as incoherent as in this before us , it cannot fail of being the object ...
... must laugh , if fuch a man there be ? ] While a Character is unapplied , all the various parts of it will be considered together ; and if the affemblage of them be as incoherent as in this before us , it cannot fail of being the object ...
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... must at least betray : Who to the Dean , and filver bell can fwear , And fees at Cannons what was never there ; Who reads , but with a luft to misapply , Make Satire a Lampoon , and Fiction Lye . A lafh like mine no honeft man fhall ...
... must at least betray : Who to the Dean , and filver bell can fwear , And fees at Cannons what was never there ; Who reads , but with a luft to misapply , Make Satire a Lampoon , and Fiction Lye . A lafh like mine no honeft man fhall ...
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... curiofity . Why , truly , for this , you must confult Demophilas the Bithynian , whofe anecdotes turn chiefly upon fub- jetis of this bigb importance . 400 Unlearn'd he knew no schoolman's fubtile art , No 26 PROLOGUE.
... curiofity . Why , truly , for this , you must confult Demophilas the Bithynian , whofe anecdotes turn chiefly upon fub- jetis of this bigb importance . 400 Unlearn'd he knew no schoolman's fubtile art , No 26 PROLOGUE.
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... must I say ? Take then this verfe , the trifle of a day . And if it live , it lives but to commend The man whose heart has ne'er forgot a friend , Or head , an Author : Critic , yet polite , And friend to Learning , yet too wife to ...
... must I say ? Take then this verfe , the trifle of a day . And if it live , it lives but to commend The man whose heart has ne'er forgot a friend , Or head , an Author : Critic , yet polite , And friend to Learning , yet too wife to ...
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... must write , write CÆSAR's Praife , You'll gain at least a Knighthood , or the Bays . P. What ? like Sir Richard , rumbling , rough , and fierce . i With ARMS , and GEORGE and BRUNSWICK crowd the verse , Rend with tremendous found your ...
... must write , write CÆSAR's Praife , You'll gain at least a Knighthood , or the Bays . P. What ? like Sir Richard , rumbling , rough , and fierce . i With ARMS , and GEORGE and BRUNSWICK crowd the verse , Rend with tremendous found your ...
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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...