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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 , too fond to ...
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 , too fond to ...
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Bleft be the Great ! for those they take away , And those they left me ; for they left me GAY ; 255 Left me to fee neglected Genius bloom , Neglected die , and tell it on his tomb : Of all thy blameless life the fole return 259 My Verfe ...
Bleft be the Great ! for those they take away , And those they left me ; for they left me GAY ; 255 Left me to fee neglected Genius bloom , Neglected die , and tell it on his tomb : Of all thy blameless life the fole return 259 My Verfe ...
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No , fuch 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 ...
No , fuch 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 ...
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Who has the vanity to call you friend , Yes wants the honour , injur'd , to defend ; ] When a great Genius , whose writings have afforded the world much pleasure and inftruction , happens to be enviously attacked , or falfely accused ...
Who has the vanity to call you friend , Yes wants the honour , injur'd , to defend ; ] When a great Genius , whose writings have afforded the world much pleasure and inftruction , happens to be enviously attacked , or falfely accused ...
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... a great 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 .
... a great 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 .
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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...
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| Title | The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Satires, &c Volume 4 of The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Published by Mr. Warburton. With Occasional Notes, William Warburton |
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| Publisher | J. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jul 20, 2011 |
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