The Works of Alexander Pope: Satires, &cJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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Alexander Pope. Peace to all fuch ! but were there One whose fires True Genius kindles , and fair Fame inspires ; Bleft with each talent and each art to please , And born to write , converfe , and live with ease : Should fuch a man , too ...
Alexander Pope. Peace to all fuch ! but were there One whose fires True Genius kindles , and fair Fame inspires ; Bleft with each talent and each art to please , And born to write , converfe , and live with ease : Should fuch a man , too ...
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... Genius bloom , 255 Neglected die , and tell it on his tomb : Of all thy blameless life the fole return 259 My Verfe , and QUEENSB'RY weeping o'er thy urn ! Oh let me live my own , and die so too ! ( To live and die is all I have to do ...
... Genius bloom , 255 Neglected die , and tell it on his tomb : Of all thy blameless life the fole return 259 My Verfe , and QUEENSB'RY weeping o'er thy urn ! Oh let me live my own , and die so too ! ( To live and die is all I have to do ...
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... Genius never can lie ftill ; VARIATIONS , After 270. in the MS . Friendships from youth I fought , and feek them ftill : Fame , like the wind , may breathe where'er it will . The World I knew , but made it not my School 2 , And in a ...
... Genius never can lie ftill ; VARIATIONS , After 270. in the MS . Friendships from youth I fought , and feek them ftill : Fame , like the wind , may breathe where'er it will . The World I knew , but made it not my School 2 , And in a ...
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... Genius , whose writings have afforded the world much pleasure and inftruction , happens to be enviously attacked , or falfely accused , it is natural to think , that a fenfe of gratitude for fo agreeable an obligation , or a fenfe of ...
... Genius , whose writings have afforded the world much pleasure and inftruction , happens to be enviously attacked , or falfely accused , it is natural to think , that a fenfe of gratitude for fo agreeable an obligation , or a fenfe of ...
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... Genius . M. Vol- taire in a MS . letter now before me , writes thus from England to a friend in Paris . " I intend to fend you two or three poems of Mr. Pope , the best poet of England , " and at present of all the world . I hope you ...
... Genius . M. Vol- taire in a MS . letter now before me , writes thus from England to a friend in Paris . " I intend to fend you two or three poems of Mr. Pope , the best poet of England , " and at present of all the world . I hope you ...
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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.