The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &cA. Millar [and others], 1757 |
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... tell me , is not this a curfe ? Say , is their anger , or their friendship worse ? VER . 13. Mint . ] A place to which infolvent debtors re- tired , to enjoy an illegal protection , which they were there fuffered to afford one another ...
... tell me , is not this a curfe ? Say , is their anger , or their friendship worse ? VER . 13. Mint . ] A place to which infolvent debtors re- tired , to enjoy an illegal protection , which they were there fuffered to afford one another ...
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... tell me I could write ; Well - natur'd Garth inflam'd with early praise , And Congreve lov'd , and Swift endur'd my lays ; The courtly Talbot , Somers , Sheffield read , Ev'n mitred Rockefter would nod the head , 140 And St. John's felf ...
... tell me I could write ; Well - natur'd Garth inflam'd with early praise , And Congreve lov'd , and Swift endur'd my lays ; The courtly Talbot , Somers , Sheffield read , Ev'n mitred Rockefter would nod the head , 140 And St. John's felf ...
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... tell it on his tomb : Of all thy blameless life the fole return 250 255 My Verfe , and QUEENSB'RY weeping o'er thy urn ! 260 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 ...
... tell it on his tomb : Of all thy blameless life the fole return 250 255 My Verfe , and QUEENSB'RY weeping o'er thy urn ! 260 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 ...
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... tell you how this man was bit : This dreaded Sat'rift Dennis will confefs Foe to his pride , but friend to his distress : So humble , he has knock'd at Tibbald's door , Has drunk with Cibber , nay has rhym'd for Moor . Full ten years ...
... tell you how this man was bit : This dreaded Sat'rift Dennis will confefs Foe to his pride , but friend to his distress : So humble , he has knock'd at Tibbald's door , Has drunk with Cibber , nay has rhym'd for Moor . Full ten years ...
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... tell ; Cum magnis vixiffe invita fatebitur ufque Invidia . Our poet , more nobly , in his living with them on the foot- ing of an honest man.- ) -He prided himself in this fuperiority , as appears from the following words , in a letter ...
... tell ; Cum magnis vixiffe invita fatebitur ufque Invidia . Our poet , more nobly , in his living with them on the foot- ing of an honest man.- ) -He prided himself in this fuperiority , as appears from the following words , in a letter ...
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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...