The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &cJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... ( Some fay his Queen ) was forc'd to speak , or burst . And is not mine , my friend , a forer cafe , When ev'ry coxcomb perks them in my face ? A. Good friend forbear ! you deal in dang'rous things . I'd never name Queens , Minifters , or ...
... ( Some fay his Queen ) was forc'd to speak , or burst . And is not mine , my friend , a forer cafe , When ev'ry coxcomb perks them in my face ? A. Good friend forbear ! you deal in dang'rous things . I'd never name Queens , Minifters , or ...
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... some days eat : Till grown more frugal in his riper days , 235 240 He paid fome bards with port , and fome with praife , To fome a dry rehearsal was affign'd , And others ( harder ftill ) he paid in kind . After VARIATIONS . 234. in the ...
... some days eat : Till grown more frugal in his riper days , 235 240 He paid fome bards with port , and fome with praife , To fome a dry rehearsal was affign'd , And others ( harder ftill ) he paid in kind . After VARIATIONS . 234. in the ...
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... Some take a malignant fatisfaction in the attack ; others a foolish pleasure in a literary conflict ; and the far greater part look on with a felfish indifference . VER . 299. Who to the Dean , and filver bell , & c . ] Meaning the man ...
... Some take a malignant fatisfaction in the attack ; others a foolish pleasure in a literary conflict ; and the far greater part look on with a felfish indifference . VER . 299. Who to the Dean , and filver bell , & c . ] Meaning the man ...
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... Some Critics tell us , it is want of tafte to put this line in the mouth of Trebatius . But our Poet confutes this cen- fure , by fhewing how well the fense of it agrees to his Friend's character . The Lawyer is cautious and fearful ...
... Some Critics tell us , it is want of tafte to put this line in the mouth of Trebatius . But our Poet confutes this cen- fure , by fhewing how well the fense of it agrees to his Friend's character . The Lawyer is cautious and fearful ...
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... some ungracious son , 175 Who cries , " My father's damn'd , and all's my own . h 1 Shades , that to BACON could retreat afford , Become the portion of a booby Lord ; And Hemfley , once proud Buckingham's delight , Slides to a Scriv ...
... some ungracious son , 175 Who cries , " My father's damn'd , and all's my own . h 1 Shades , that to BACON could retreat afford , Become the portion of a booby Lord ; And Hemfley , once proud Buckingham's delight , Slides to a Scriv ...
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Сторінка 18 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Сторінка 17 - 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 51 - 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 243 - Before her dance; behind her crawl the Old! See thronging Millions to the Pagod run, And offer Country, Parent, Wife, or Son! Hear her black Trumpet thro' the Land proclaim, That "Not to be corrupted is the Shame.
Сторінка 19 - d by ev'ry quill ; Fed with soft dedication all day long, Horace and he went hand in hand in song.
Сторінка 234 - 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.
Сторінка 6 - 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 30 - 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.
Сторінка 244 - Are what ten thousand envy and adore : All, all look up with reverential awe, At crimes that 'scape or triumph o'er the law ; While truth, worth, wisdom, daily they decry : Nothing is sacred now but villainy.
Сторінка 157 - 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.