The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &cA. Millar [and others], 1757 |
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... true ; but I have , for the most part , spared 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 ...
... true ; but I have , for the most part , spared 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 ...
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... true merit ' tis not hard to find ; But each man's fecret ftandard in his mind , That Cafting - weight pride adds to emptiness , This , who can gratify ? for who can guess ? The Bard whom pilfer'd Paftorals renown , Who turns a Perfian ...
... true merit ' tis not hard to find ; But each man's fecret ftandard in his mind , That Cafting - weight pride adds to emptiness , This , who can gratify ? for who can guess ? The Bard whom pilfer'd Paftorals renown , Who turns a Perfian ...
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... True Genius kindles , and fair Fame inspires ; Bleft with each talent and each art to please , And born to write , converfe , and live with eafe : Should fuch a man , too fond to rule alone , Bear , like the Turk , no brother near the ...
... True Genius kindles , and fair Fame inspires ; Bleft with each talent and each art to please , And born to write , converfe , and live with eafe : Should fuch a man , too fond to rule alone , Bear , like the Turk , no brother near the ...
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... true Pindar stood without a head ) Receiv'd of wits an undiftinguifh'd race , Who firft his judgment afk'd , and then a place : Much they extoll'd his pictures , much his feat , And flatter'd ev'ry day , and fome days eat : Till grown ...
... true Pindar stood without a head ) Receiv'd of wits an undiftinguifh'd race , Who firft his judgment afk'd , and then a place : Much they extoll'd his pictures , much his feat , And flatter'd ev'ry day , and fome days eat : Till grown ...
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... true Sati- rift nothing is fo odious as a Libeller , for the fame reafon as to a man truly virtuous nothing is fo hateful as a Hypocrite . Uni aequus Virtuti atque ejus Amicis , P. THE Firft Satire of the Second Book O F HORACE.
... true Sati- rift nothing is fo odious as a Libeller , for the fame reafon as to a man truly virtuous nothing is fo hateful as a Hypocrite . Uni aequus Virtuti atque ejus Amicis , P. THE Firft Satire of the Second Book O F HORACE.
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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...