The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Satires, &cJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... smile , When ev'ry Coxcomb knows me by my Style ? Curst be the verse , how well foe'er it flow , That tends to make one worthy man my foe , Give Virtue scandal , Innocence a fear , Or from the foft - ey'd Virgin steal a tear ! But he ...
... smile , When ev'ry Coxcomb knows me by my Style ? Curst be the verse , how well foe'er it flow , That tends to make one worthy man my foe , Give Virtue scandal , Innocence a fear , Or from the foft - ey'd Virgin steal a tear ! But he ...
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... smiles his emptiness betray , 315 As shallow streams run dimpling all the way . Whether in florid impotence he speaks , And , as the prompter breathes , the puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eve , familiar Toad , Half froth , half venom ...
... smiles his emptiness betray , 315 As shallow streams run dimpling all the way . Whether in florid impotence he speaks , And , as the prompter breathes , the puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eve , familiar Toad , Half froth , half venom ...
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... 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 Heav'n , to bless those days , preserve my friend ...
... 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 Heav'n , to bless those days , preserve my friend ...
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... smile at , Mr. Pope would treat with the grave severity of Perfius : And what Mr. Pope would strike with the cauftic lightening of Juvenal , Horace would content himself in turning into ridicule . If it be asked then , why he took any ...
... smile at , Mr. Pope would treat with the grave severity of Perfius : And what Mr. Pope would strike with the cauftic lightening of Juvenal , Horace would content himself in turning into ridicule . If it be asked then , why he took any ...
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... smile ) But those who cannot write , and those who can , All rhyme , and scrawl , and scribble , to a man . 185 Yet , Sir , reflect , the mischief is not great ; These Madmen never hurt the Church or State : 190 NOTES . vacity , without ...
... smile ) But those who cannot write , and those who can , All rhyme , and scrawl , and scribble , to a man . 185 Yet , Sir , reflect , the mischief is not great ; These Madmen never hurt the Church or State : 190 NOTES . vacity , without ...
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Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 17 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...