The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Satires, &cJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... Because to deny , or pre- tend not to fee , a well established merit , would impeach his own heart or understanding . VER . 294. And show the sense of it without the love ; ] i . e . will never fuffer the admiration of an excellence to ...
... Because to deny , or pre- tend not to fee , a well established merit , would impeach his own heart or understanding . VER . 294. And show the sense of it without the love ; ] i . e . will never fuffer the admiration of an excellence to ...
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... Because just Satire is an useful supplement to the sanctions of Law and Religion ; and has , therefore , a claim to the protection of those who prefide in the administra- tion of both . Ibid . Could penfion'd Boileau - Could Laureate ...
... Because just Satire is an useful supplement to the sanctions of Law and Religion ; and has , therefore , a claim to the protection of those who prefide in the administra- tion of both . Ibid . Could penfion'd Boileau - Could Laureate ...
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... Because God made these large , the other less . m Oldfield with more than Harpy throat endu'd , Cries " Send me , Gods ! a whole Hog barbecu'd ! " NOTES . 25 fortune of fifteen hundred pounds a year in the simple lux- ury of good eating ...
... Because God made these large , the other less . m Oldfield with more than Harpy throat endu'd , Cries " Send me , Gods ! a whole Hog barbecu'd ! " NOTES . 25 fortune of fifteen hundred pounds a year in the simple lux- ury of good eating ...
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... Because I see , by all the tracks about , 115 " Full many a Beast goes in , but none come out . " Adieu to Virtue , if you're once a Slave : Send her to Court , you send her to her grave . Well , if a King's a Lion , at the least The ...
... Because I see , by all the tracks about , 115 " Full many a Beast goes in , but none come out . " Adieu to Virtue , if you're once a Slave : Send her to Court , you send her to her grave . Well , if a King's a Lion , at the least The ...
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... because the immenfity of God's creation , which modern philofophy has so infinitely enlarged , is apt to affect narrow minds , who measure the divine comprehenfion by their own , with dreadful fufpi- cions of man's being overlooked in ...
... because the immenfity of God's creation , which modern philofophy has so infinitely enlarged , is apt to affect narrow minds , who measure the divine comprehenfion by their own , with dreadful fufpi- cions of man's being overlooked in ...
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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...