The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: 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 , 195 And born to write , converfe , and live with ease : Should such a man ...
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 , 195 And born to write , converfe , and live with ease : Should such a man ...
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... Genius bloom , 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 , 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 sense of gratitude for so agreeable an obligation , or a fense 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 sense of gratitude for so agreeable an obligation , or a fense 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 prefent 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 prefent of all the world . I hope you ...
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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...