The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Satires, &cJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... 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 who hurts a harmless neighbour's peace ...
... 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 who hurts a harmless neighbour's peace ...
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... Style the divine , the matchless , what you will ) For gain , not glory , wing'd his roving flight , And grew Immortal in his own despight . Ben , old and poor , as little seem'd to heed * The Life to come , in ev'ry Poet's Creed . : b ...
... Style the divine , the matchless , what you will ) For gain , not glory , wing'd his roving flight , And grew Immortal in his own despight . Ben , old and poor , as little seem'd to heed * The Life to come , in ev'ry Poet's Creed . : b ...
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... style , the Hash of tongues A Pedant makes , the storm of Gonfon's lungs , The whole Artill'ry of the terms of War , And ( all those plagues in one ) the bawling Bar : 55 These I cou'd bear ; but not a rogue so civil , Whose tongue will ...
... style , the Hash of tongues A Pedant makes , the storm of Gonfon's lungs , The whole Artill'ry of the terms of War , And ( all those plagues in one ) the bawling Bar : 55 These I cou'd bear ; but not a rogue so civil , Whose tongue will ...
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... style , " But Ho ** y for a period of a mile . " Why yes , ' tis granted , these indeed may pass : Good common linguists , and so Panurge was ; Nay troth th ' Apostles ( tho ' perhaps too rough ) Had once a pretty gift of Tongues enough ...
... style , " But Ho ** y for a period of a mile . " Why yes , ' tis granted , these indeed may pass : Good common linguists , and so Panurge was ; Nay troth th ' Apostles ( tho ' perhaps too rough ) Had once a pretty gift of Tongues enough ...
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... style doth dress ; And asks what news ; I tell him of new playes , He takes my hand , and as a Still which stayes A Sembrief , ' twixt each drop , he niggardly , As loth to inrich me , so tells many a ly . More than ten Hollensheads ...
... style doth dress ; And asks what news ; I tell him of new playes , He takes my hand , and as a Still which stayes A Sembrief , ' twixt each drop , he niggardly , As loth to inrich me , so tells many a ly . More than ten Hollensheads ...
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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...