The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Satires, &cJ. and P. Knapton, 1751 |
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... expressed , as to be taken for a monkish Addition ) is here admirably imitated , in a lively character of himself , and his Writ- ings . VER . 69. Satire's my weapon ] In these Words , our Author has happily explained the true Character ...
... expressed , as to be taken for a monkish Addition ) is here admirably imitated , in a lively character of himself , and his Writ- ings . VER . 69. Satire's my weapon ] In these Words , our Author has happily explained the true Character ...
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... q. a gilt Buses s reflected pride Turns you from found Philosophy aside ;] More forcibly and happily expressed than the original, acclinis falsis } tho' that be very elegant. SATIRE IL To Mr. B E T H E L. 58 Book II. IMITATIONS.
... q. a gilt Buses s reflected pride Turns you from found Philosophy aside ;] More forcibly and happily expressed than the original, acclinis falsis } tho' that be very elegant. SATIRE IL To Mr. B E T H E L. 58 Book II. IMITATIONS.
Page 58
... Buffet's reflected pride Turns you from found Philofophy afide ; ) More forcibly and happily expressed than the original , acclinis falfis ; tho ' that be very elegant . NOTES . VER . 50. For him you'll call a 58 IMITATIONS Book II .
... Buffet's reflected pride Turns you from found Philofophy afide ; ) More forcibly and happily expressed than the original , acclinis falfis ; tho ' that be very elegant . NOTES . VER . 50. For him you'll call a 58 IMITATIONS Book II .
Page 75
... 181 imitation , in the concluding part , obliged him to diver- fify the fentiment . They are equally noble : but Horace's is expressed with the greater force . THE FIRST EPISTLE OF THE FIRST BOOK OF 5 HORAСЕ Sat. IL . OF 75 HORACE .
... 181 imitation , in the concluding part , obliged him to diver- fify the fentiment . They are equally noble : but Horace's is expressed with the greater force . THE FIRST EPISTLE OF THE FIRST BOOK OF 5 HORAСЕ Sat. IL . OF 75 HORACE .
Page 82
... expressed . VER . 51. I'll do what Mead- ] Mr. Pope highly esteemed and loved this worthy man , whore unaffected humanity and benevolence have stifled much of that envy which his emi- nence in his profeffion would otherwise have drawn ...
... expressed . VER . 51. I'll do what Mead- ] Mr. Pope highly esteemed and loved this worthy man , whore unaffected humanity and benevolence have stifled much of that envy which his emi- nence in his profeffion would otherwise have drawn ...
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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...