The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Satires, &cJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... thought , tho ' all the prudent chid ; He writ no Libels , but my Lady did : Great odds in am'rous or poetic game , Where Woman's is the fin , and Man's the shame . NOTES . 37 % VER . 374. ten years ] It was fo long after many libels ...
... thought , tho ' all the prudent chid ; He writ no Libels , but my Lady did : Great odds in am'rous or poetic game , Where Woman's is the fin , and Man's the shame . NOTES . 37 % VER . 374. ten years ] It was fo long after many libels ...
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... thought to come from a Nobleman ) had dropt an al- lufion to that pitiful untruth , in a paper called an Epiftle to a Doctor of Divinity : And the following line , Hard as thy Heart , and as thy Birth obfcure , had fallen from a like ...
... thought to come from a Nobleman ) had dropt an al- lufion to that pitiful untruth , in a paper called an Epiftle to a Doctor of Divinity : And the following line , Hard as thy Heart , and as thy Birth obfcure , had fallen from a like ...
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... thought no wife a whore : Hear this , and spare his family , James Moore ! Unfpotted names , and memorable long ! If there be force in Virtue , or in Song . 386 Of gentle blood ( part shed in Honour's cause , While yet in Britain Honour ...
... thought no wife a whore : Hear this , and spare his family , James Moore ! Unfpotted names , and memorable long ! If there be force in Virtue , or in Song . 386 Of gentle blood ( part shed in Honour's cause , While yet in Britain Honour ...
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... thought , explain the asking eye , And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like thefe if length of days attend , May Heav'n , to blefs thofe days , preferve my friend , VARIATIONS . After 405. in the MS . And of myself , too ...
... thought , explain the asking eye , And keep a while one parent from the sky ! On cares like thefe if length of days attend , May Heav'n , to blefs thofe days , preferve my friend , VARIATIONS . After 405. in the MS . And of myself , too ...
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... thought . Montagne had many qualities , that have gained him the love and efteem of his Readers : The other had one , which always gain'd him the favourable attention of his Hearers , For , as a celebrated Roman Orator obferves ...
... thought . Montagne had many qualities , that have gained him the love and efteem of his Readers : The other had one , which always gain'd him the favourable attention of his Hearers , For , as a celebrated Roman Orator obferves ...
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Seite 5 - Friend to my life, (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove?
Seite 255 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Seite 17 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Seite 24 - Amphibious thing! that acting either part, The trifling head or the corrupted heart, Fop at the toilet, flatt'rer at the board, Now trips a Lady, and now struts a Lord.
Seite 231 - 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 5 - 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 16 - 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 29 - 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 155 - 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.
Seite 23 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence...