The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements; together with all his notes: pr. verbatim from the octavo ed. of mr. Warburton, Том 41754 |
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... half a Crown , Juft writes to make his barrenness appear , And ftrains from hard - bound brains , eight lines a year , 180 He , who still wanting , tho ' he lives on theft , Steals much , fpends little , yet has nothing left : 184 .VER ...
... half a Crown , Juft writes to make his barrenness appear , And ftrains from hard - bound brains , eight lines a year , 180 He , who still wanting , tho ' he lives on theft , Steals much , fpends little , yet has nothing left : 184 .VER ...
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... half their bus'nefs blows to ward , or give ; The good their Virtue would effect , or Senfe , Dies between Exigents and Self - defence , MS . Can fleep without a Poem in my head , Nor VOL . II . C TO THE SATIRES . 17.
... half their bus'nefs blows to ward , or give ; The good their Virtue would effect , or Senfe , Dies between Exigents and Self - defence , MS . Can fleep without a Poem in my head , Nor VOL . II . C TO THE SATIRES . 17.
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... Half froth , half venom , fpits himself abroad , 320 VER . 299. Who to the Dean , and filver bell & c ] Meaning the man who would have perfuaded the Duke of Chandos that Mr. P. meant him in those circumftances ridiculed in the Epiftle ...
... Half froth , half venom , fpits himself abroad , 320 VER . 299. Who to the Dean , and filver bell & c ] Meaning the man who would have perfuaded the Duke of Chandos that Mr. P. meant him in those circumftances ridiculed in the Epiftle ...
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... Half froth , ] Alluding to those frothy excretions , called by the people , Toad - spits , seen in summer - time hanging upon plants , and emitted by young infects which lie hid in the midft of them , for their preservation , while in ...
... Half froth , ] Alluding to those frothy excretions , called by the people , Toad - spits , seen in summer - time hanging upon plants , and emitted by young infects which lie hid in the midft of them , for their preservation , while in ...
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... half approving wit , The coxcomb hit , or fearing to be hit ; Laugh'd at the loss of friends he never had , The dull , the proud , the wicked , and the mad ; The diftant threats of vengeance on his head , The blow unfelt , the tear he ...
... half approving wit , The coxcomb hit , or fearing to be hit ; Laugh'd at the loss of friends he never had , The dull , the proud , the wicked , and the mad ; The diftant threats of vengeance on his head , The blow unfelt , the tear he ...
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Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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!
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 14 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Сторінка 4 - 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.
Сторінка 13 - 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...
Сторінка 167 - Bright through the rubbish of some hundred years ; Command old words, that long have slept, to wake, Words that wise Bacon or...
Сторінка 6 - A virgin tragedy, an orphan muse.' If I dislike it, 'Furies, death and rage!' If I approve, 'Commend it to the stage.
Сторінка 20 - 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...
Сторінка 41 - My head and heart thus flowing thro' my quill, Verse-man or prose-man, term me which you will, Papist or Protestant, or both between, Like good Erasmus in an honest mean, In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory.